Zompist Bboard Again

A third possibility is pronouncing Italian e as /i/, but this may have some basis in dialects of Italian, such as Sicilian. Which is in fact where many Italian-Americans originate. Speaking of Americanizing names, my family name is German with a (word-internal) <z> which the family pronounces /z/ r...

So I was transcribing an Indian American (actually I suspect Indian Canadian), and I was struck by the variety of ways he produced /v w/ (which he conflated mostly). Most of the time it was [ʋ], which isn't too striking assuming he was a native speaker of Hindi or something similar, but specificall...

So I was transcribing an Indian American (actually I suspect Indian Canadian), and I was struck by the variety of ways he produced /v w/ (which he conflated mostly). Most of the time it was [ʋ], which isn't too striking assuming he was a native speaker of Hindi or something similar, but specifically...

Fixed.

Pedant wrote: ↑Thu Feb 28, 2019 3:46 pmWhat time of year is it? How do I know?

Is it hot and dry? It's summer.
Is it warm and stormy? It's winter.
Is it warm and dry? You're going to have a hungry summer...

How does one travel long distances?

lineage [ˈɫɪniəʤ] (my syllabification agrees with Anteallach's: [ˈɫɪn.i.əʤ])
temporal [ˈtʰɛmpʰɹ̠ˁɫ̩]

ablative [əˈbɫɛɪ̯ɾɪv]
midnight [mɪʔdˈnɐɪ̯ʔ]
good night [ˈgʊʔd̚ ˈnɐɪ̯ʔ]
couldn't [ˈkʰʊʔn̩ʔ]

I kinda want to have a language where most adjectives are actually nouns meaning "ADJ-ness", and the adjectival usage of these words are accomplished by using possessive structures or adpositional phrases. You find this construct pretty commonly in Semitic languages. Are you sure? I don't...

Nortaneous wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 1:14 pm

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Feb 20, 2019 10:17 am What I hear is something more open, more like [ɒɹ], contrasting with [ɔɹ] as in NORTH and FORCE.

Does anyone actually have [ɔ]? The onset of the NORTH/FORCE diphthong is pretty high. Not [u‌], but close.

I have /ou/, which is [ɔ] before a liquid, so I have [ɔ] in NORTH/FORCE.

k1234567890y wrote: ↑Fri Feb 22, 2019 12:35 am I kinda want to have a language where most adjectives are actually nouns meaning "ADJ-ness", and the adjectival usage of these words are accomplished by using possessive structures or adpositional phrases.

You find this construct pretty commonly in Semitic languages.

My usage aligns with Zompist's and Linguoboy's. Also note that a real estate listing for a "half bathroom" doesn't have a shower/bathtub. To me a half bath (I rarely hear the full half bathroom ) is still a bathroom - not a restroom (one would never call a bathroom in a public place a hal...

My usage aligns with Zompist's and Linguoboy's. Also note that a real estate listing for a "half bathroom" doesn't have a shower/bathtub.

mèþru wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 2:58 pm Well, there are the piyutim. They are all religious; Hebrew generally wasn't used for non-religious works until the Haskalah. Someare from Talmudic times, but I think most were made in the late medieval era.

Thank you, I'm finding some formal metrics for these.

@Whimememsz: Yeah, I'm very familiar with Biblical Hebrew parallelism. I'm hoping to find something based on measure and/or rhyme, because that seems to be the case with Syriac poetry (based on the oblique hints in The Mind of the Middle Ages ) and is definitely the case with Arabic (at least for th...

Pabappa wrote: ↑Mon Feb 11, 2019 9:47 amUnconditional ɣ → ŋ would be odd but at least the PoA is the same. I tend to be a skeptic on sound changes, though.

I can't cite a source, but I'm positive ɣ → ŋ is attested. If not, g → ŋ certainly is, so ɣ → g → ŋ would be a very plausible chain shift.

Anyone know where I can find some information on the formal elements of Aramaic/Syriac poetry? Or any Northwest Semitic poetry from ca. 500 BC to AD 500. Or even Akkadian poetry. Arabic is the only Semitic language I've been able to find detailed poetic information on.

RichardFromMarple wrote: ↑Fri Feb 08, 2019 4:46 pmChase is another name that seems to becoming more common for girls, even if it makes me think of the character from Paw Patrol!

I was going to express disbelief, but then I remembered Chase Masterson (Leeta in DS9), who incidentally must be in her 40s or 50s at this point.

Much of what I wrote in the original thread is still true. 1. Ejectives. The overwhelming majority of my languages have them. This is generally part of a three-way distinction of voiced/unvoiced/ejective, but I also have plain/aspirated/ejective, plain/ejective, and one case of voiced/aspirated/ejec...

Despite considerable research, I still feel like the consonant system in my main conlang doesn't quite cohere. I want to avoid hushing sibilants in favor of /s/ since this is my ultimate "cellar door" conlang based on everything I like. Yet that seems arbitrary and outrageous to say that ...

Also, adjustments made! Now Surya and Mitra have an average separation of 63 AU, and a maximum proximity of 30 AU--which gives plenty of space for reasonably-sized solar systems to form around both stars. And then there's the third star, which I'm putting out at 500 AU again--but making it a K-star...