Zompist Bboard Again

Wikipedia is unhelpful in not stating the separation of 36 Ophiuchi A and B, but it does mention that an orbit of greater than 1.5 AU would be unstable. So you might get away with 0.5 to 1.0 AU, but I wouldn't want to guarantee that long term. On the plus side, 36 Ophiuchi C is certainly far enough ...

genuine [ˈʤɛnjʊwɪn], careful speech [ˈʤɛnjuwɪn]

What is the difference of using some verbs like "cook", "close", etc as intransitive verbs, and using passive voice. What is difference of: The meat cooks. The meat is cooked. The door closes. The door is closed. "The meat cooks." = "The meat is in the process of ...

Am I weird for having raising in the other direction? For me /ai/ is [ɐɪ̯] before a voiceless consonant, [aɪ̯] otherwise (regardless of what's in the following syllable).

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Mon Jan 28, 2019 10:17 amI thought maybe someone else would have /ŋ/ > [n̪] | _θ but I guess it's just me.

I don't have it, but I've heard it often enough to find it non-remarkable--the majority of people I've heard it from have been L1 Spanish speakers, but I've also heard it from native speakers.

Flapping. Virtually all Americans have [ɾ] for /t d/ between vowels, including syllabic resonants (except /n̩/, where at least some of us have [ʔ] -- so butter [bʌɾɹ̩] but button [bʌʔn̩]).

length [ɫeŋg̊θ]
strength [stɹ̱ˁʷeŋg̊θ]
penguin [ˈpɛngwɪn] ([ŋ] in penguin sounds a little strange to me...)
Jenkins [ˈʤɛŋkn̩z~ˈʤɛnkn̩z]

Yeah - humans are quite capable of killing other humans, particularly if they convince themselves that certain sorts of human are somehow "lesser", so the fact that the prey can talk wouldn't necessarily put predators off. Particularly if the prey creatures were the ones with the less com...

Ooh, could make it rather difficult for anyone to reasonably be a carnivore with enough thought about what they were doing...perhaps you should consider investing heavily in designing protein-heavy plants? Or more simply, ignoring what the herbivore is saying and just eat it. Yeah - humans are quit...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Thu Jan 24, 2019 11:32 amYou preglottalize coda /d/ in addition to the normal preglottalization (or overt glottalization) of coda /t/?

Acoustically they sound quite similar, but I definitely have coronal contact in coda /d/ whereas I do not in coda /t/. [ʔd̚] is my best transcription of that.

I don't have such assimilation beyond normal coda coronal debuccalization.

vodka [ˈvɑʔd̚kə]
hatpin [ˈhæʔpʰɪn]
Atkins [ˈæʔkʰɪnz]
Adler [ˈæʔd̚ɫɹ̩ˁ]
radio [ˈɹ̠ˁʷɛɪ̯ɾjəʊ̯~ˈɹ̠ˁʷɛɪ̯ˌdiəʊ̯]
couldn't [ˈkʰʊʔd̚n̩ʔ]

You'll note that _d$ and _t$ remain slightly distinct for me.

Also, I understand not wanting to have the same kind of vowel harmony system as everyone else, but it should make some kind of sense, 'mkay? You can't just lump all your back vowels into two opposing sets, make all the front vowels neutral, and call it a day. They were inspired by the guy that did ...

Spellcheck flagged infinitesmal and I realised I've been deleting the penultimate syllable all this time. When I first heard the word (thanks, Star Trek!) I thought it was infant-tessimal . In my defense I was probably about 11, which may be the maximum age for unironically enjoying "The Dauph...

Not quite the same thing, but a lot of Kings of Sweden sandwich a regnal number between two personal names, e.g. Carl XVI Gustaf . You see this elsewhere as well: Alexios I Komnenos, for instance. "Komnenos" is a surname, though - the tradition for the later Byzantine emperors is to refer...

Does whoever made Tlingit really expect us to believe that out of five lateral consonants not one of them is /l/?

The "no distinction between name, rank, and title" thing makes me think of the names/titles of a lot of rulers of Persianate monarchies - e.g. the Mughal Emperors Shah Jahan and Bahadur Shah. "Shah" obviously means "king/emperor", and they were kings/emperors, but was ...

I guess poor Guybrush will be lost at sea forever in some of the translated versions of The Curse of Monkey Island.

But split ergativity only evolved recently in Indo-Aryan, in the early to mid second millennium, not even reaching unrecognized languages that are considered dialects of Hindi, like Bhojpuri. Like I said, my knowledge of II syntax is passing at best. Also, I'm not sure about the relationship betwee...

I have heard of folk with /l/ myself, in the context of folk music (IIRC one of folk as in folk music and one of folk in other contexts often has /l/, but I cannot recall at the moment which is which). I have /l/ in folk music but not in other instances of folk . This is lexical for me: I don't hav...

To answer your question, though, yes, syntactic borrowing can absolutely happen. Some prominent examples include Akkadian becoming SOV (originally VSO) under the influence of Sumerian, some modern Maya languages becoming SVO (originally OSV) under the influence of Spanish, Armenian becoming aggluti...