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Maybe because they stop the game when one player has shed all the cards, instead of continuing until there's only one person left?

un ion and un gnon; the verbs manier and (se) magner (though these two are an etymological doublet). A quasi-minimal pear: union and oignon /ɔɲɔ̃/.

Just like Ars Lande, I tend to merge them anyway.

OK, Latin translation finally done, and sent to Moose-tache and finlay. I'm really, really sorry for the delay... I hope you understand that my degree took priority. Doing both at the same time was, to quote Ralph Wiggum, unpossible. Woof am I rusty with Latin. This challenge is going to shame me in...

MacAnDàil wrote: ↑Sun Oct 06, 2019 9:58 am Congratulations! What did you write about?

Sorry, this is a bit confidential. It was closer to an internship report than a thesis, really.

My master's thesis has been accepted!!
Graduation day is next week.

The difference between /ɪ/ and /ə/ in unstressed syllables is such a mess... Geoff Lindsay, in English After RP , notes that RP used to have more unstressed syllables with /ɪ/, where other BrE varieties have /ə/ instead. For instance, invisibility would be /ɪnˌvɪzɪˈbɪlɪtɪ/ in RP, but /ɪnˌvɪzəˈbɪləti...

Ah, this is an interesting subject! Donald Trump [ˈdonal ˈtɹ̥ɔmp] (0:36) "Donald" gets the foreign-marked non-final stress. I don't hear any foreign-mark stress here. To my ears, both syllables of Donald are more or less equally stressed. On a related note, when putting emphasis on a word,...

Hey, I've just noticed that your supervisor is Jean-Philippe Watbled. I read his book La prononciation de l'anglais a few years ago, and even convinced the school library to buy a copy on behalf of the English teacher.

OK, I have finally sent my master thesis. I can now resume my normal activities, which include (1) translating the text, and (2) get a full night's sleep for a change. Sorry for the delay, my turn arrived at the very worst possible time.

Yeah, sorry. I'm finishing my master thesis, and I'm in crunch mode, sleeping like 3 hours a night. I'll be on it tomorrow.

/☕/, /⚽/, /☎/, /☯/ No, I mean, I saw "a cup of coffee", "soccer ball", "rotary telephone", and "ying-yang" as the phoneme inventory of the Marshallese Yes, that's the point . Phoneme notation is kinda arbitrary: when there is little allophony, you may as well...

Is Robin Hobb so famous that "not having read her" is so remarkable? I mean, I imagine having this sort of reaction for Star Wars (which I've seen a million times) or Harry Potter (which I haven't read). But, according to this page , Robin Hobb sold about 3 million copies, which is far sho...

Are you thinking about the infamous Hale (2000) paper that analyzed Marshallese with four vowel phonemes //, //, /☎/, /☯/?

I have read contradictory evidence about that. Let's just say that phoneticians are conflicted.

I think /ɴ/ for Japanese means "nasal with unspecified point of articulation" (or even "nasalization of the previous vowel") rather than actually "uvular nasal". At any rate, it never contrasts with /n/ (at least not directly).

caor /kiːɾˠ/ 'berry, round thing, ball, glowing object' cíor /ciːɾˠ/ 'comb, crest, honeycomb, cud' meg [ˈmɛɡ] 'and, plus (as in one plus one)' megy [ˈmɛɟ] 'to go' Similarly, caoch “blind” vs cíoch “breast”. ciúb “cube” vs cúb “coop” /cʰa/ "alcohol" /kʰa/ "house" Great examples. ...

I had already looked at Hungarian, Russian and Irish, but couldn't find a minimal pair.

Thanks for the tip about Greek, though: one article gives Κιάτο [ˈcato] (a town name) and κάτω [ˈkato] (“down”).

Does someone know a language that contrasts velar stops [k, g] and palatal stops [c, ɟ] (or palatalized [kʲ, gʲ])? If you do, could you give me a minimal pair? I'm trying to write a text to explain the notion of phonemes and allophones. French has noticeable allophony for /k, g/ which are indeed vel...

Sorry, I know it's my turn, but I'm very busy this weekend. This will have to wait a few days. Still within the ten-day limit, I hope.

Moose-tache wrote: ↑Thu Sep 19, 2019 12:40 am no using ancient punctuation if it will make the result nearly untranslatable

What, so I shouldn't put everything in upper-case without spaces? You're asking a lot of me.