Zompist Bboard Again

I only know of this occurring to ejective fricatives (see Semitic). I've seen people cite this for implosives, but I'm not familiar enough with any language family with implosives to say myself. Osage reflects Siouan *t’ as ts’, and Wintu has qx’ but no q’ or qx, suggesting it affricated. Apparentl...

I think we got this from Latin who maybe got it from Etruscan. Latin used it to represent aspirated stops in Greek and Punic (and perhaps other languages?); English mostly uses it in the same places except that Greek aspirated stops spirantized, which is reflected also in English pronunciations (ex...

(I think there's a tendency for *ejectives* to affricate, so maybe this is evidence for the glottalic theory...) I only know of this occurring to ejective fricatives (see Semitic). I've seen people cite this for implosives, but I'm not familiar enough with any language family with implosives to say...

Alternatively, there's the OW vowel, which is only known if one has exposure to Latin pronunciation. Or the majority of dialects of English except Scottish? :P Silly boy, I was referencing the fact that the OW vowel is unusual for, at least, my dialect, which merges "aural," "oral,&q...

Does anyone pronounce undulate with an initial /jʊ/? If you're referring to the second vowel, something like that. [ɐnˌdjʊ̘ˈlɛɪ̯ʔ] perhaps? Some people have /aw/ in 'aural', presumably a combination of spelling pronunciation and an attempt to disambiguate. Alternatively, there's the OW vowel, which...

Does any natural language have [ə] or [ə̹] in stressed positions? To elaborate on Nortaneous' post, some of the Modern South Arabian languages, French (insofar as French has stress), Catalan, Mandarin, Adyghe (and other languages of the Caucasus), and a number of Indo-Iranian languages to name a fe...

Space60 wrote: ↑Sat Dec 08, 2018 5:59 pm I use "aren't" in the tag question "aren't I?". However *"I aren't" doesn't occur, it's "I'm not".

I use "am I not?" because I don't mind sounding pretentious.

I've never seen em-dashes with spaces, but I also don't read a lot of periodicals, whether American or UK. In fiction publications, I've always seen either em-dashes sans spaces or en-dashes with them. (I'm not contending that your points are invalid, but I've never seen it in my personal experience...

That makes sense.

I haven't thought that far ahead yet (my alternate timeline has only made it to ~1480, though I've given thought to how things will progress into the 16th century, including inevitable war with Castile), but Tartessia will probably be very ambivalent to the EU. The Tartessians, being Semites and bei...

The text on the webpage is a little broken on the punctuation front. If you are talking about his use of space near m-dashes, that's how Zompist likes to use them actually. You can find such usage of space as far back as the old version of the online LCK. That's how everyone uses em-dashes, unless ...

I've never really understood why the contraction isn't "amn't"...

jal wrote: ↑Thu Nov 29, 2018 4:20 am

Zaarin wrote: ↑Wed Nov 28, 2018 3:36 pm<ñ> and <ĝ> are some popular choices for /ŋ/.

Though not in any way better...


JAL

Not in any way better than what? If someone doesn't like <ŋ> or <ng> for /ŋ/, I was pointing out options that other languages use for writing the phoneme...

I made /ŋ/ only occur at the beginning and end of stems and /ng/ only occur in the middle because I didn't want to come up with ways to write them differently. For whatever reason I don't like <ŋ> and <ngg>. I may change this in the future and go with a diacritic solution. <ñ> and <ĝ> are some popu...

Bi-ʾamriqa ʾīs yūm qaddīs.
in America there.is day holy
[biʔɑmˈr̺ikʼə ˈʔiːs̪ ˈjuːm kʼɑd̪ˈd̪iːs̪]

In America it's a holiday.

Tropylium wrote: ↑Sat Nov 17, 2018 5:56 pm An English monosyllable for once (for those who care about them):
flense v. 'to strip off blubber from the body of a marine mammal'

I learned that word thanks to Sue Harrison.

conlang [gɫɒsɵˈpʰiə] :p (more seriously: [ˈkʰɑnɫeŋ]--I'm not too sure about the second vowel though: phonemically it's /ei/, but /ei/ monophthongizes and tenses before /ŋ/, but [e] might be too tense...)
Dewey [ˈdu(w)i]

Good stuff. I love non- or near-human species that actually have sensible differences from humans while retaining relatability (*glares at Star Trek*).

Liḥnūn Pūnnīm limallel bi-ʿurrāp. ʾap nīk.
INF.CON.show.favor Phoenician-m.pl INF.CON.speak of-theology and.also 1s
[l̪iħˈn̪uːn̪ pʰuːn̪ˈn̪iːm l̪imɑl̪ˈl̪el̪ biʕʊr̺ˈr̺ɑːpʰ ˈʔɑpʰ ˈn̪iːkʰ]

The Phoenicians prefer to speak of theology. Me, too.

ʿel ʿilt Suryēm ʾiproṭ limallel bi-yulpān.
on.account.of Syriac 1s-undertake INF.CON-speak of-scholarship
[ˈʕel̪ ˈʕil̪t̪ʰ s̪ur̺ˈjeːm ʔipʰˈr̺ot̪ʼ l̪imɑl̪ˈl̪el̪ bijul̪ˈpʰɑːn̪]

Thanks to Syriac, I may undertake to speak of philosophy.