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Also, for the longest time I thought the l was silent in the name Gandalf, by analogy with words like half and calf. I still sometimes slip in this regard. If it were an English name rather than Old Norse, /ˈgændɒf/ probably would be its pronunciation, and being a philologist Professor Tolkien prob...

I don't think I've ever heard trisyllabic Irene from a native speaker of English; I probably wouldn't know what name they were saying at first. And I certainly wouldn't think to tell her goodnight. >_> Dude, I am old as shit and even *I* barely get that reference. (It's one of my dad's favourite so...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Fri Nov 02, 2018 9:47 amI don't think I've ever heard trisyllabic Irene from a native speaker of English; I probably wouldn't know what name they were saying at first.

And I certainly wouldn't think to tell her goodnight. >_>

Is /ç/ [ɕ] typical of some German dialects? I was listening to some of the "voice mails" left by backers in the game Thimbleweed Park , and quite a few of them were in German--but many had [ɕ] for /ç/. (At first I wondered if I just couldn't distinguish the two sounds, but then some of th...

Is /ç/ [ɕ] typical of some German dialects? I was listening to some of the "voice mails" left by backers in the game Thimbleweed Park , and quite a few of them were in German--but many had [ɕ] for /ç/. (At first I wondered if I just couldn't distinguish the two sounds, but then some of the...

Salmoneus wrote: ↑Thu Nov 01, 2018 8:17 pmI think it's just that Spanish falls into that awkward category - significant enough for people to notice when you get it wrong, but obscure enough that it takes a long time to learn how to get it right, since it's a language you very rarely hear spoken.

Not if you live in Florida. :p

bulletin [ˈbɫ̩ɫəɾɪn]
hall [hɒɫ]

mèþru wrote: ↑Wed Oct 31, 2018 1:09 pm It is a flying one-eyed, one-horned creature that eats the colour purple.

+1

I had a spelling pronunciation of albeit as [æɫˈbɐɪ̯ʔ], despite being familiar with [ɑɫˈbiɪ̯ʔ] from conversation--I just didn't realize they were the same word. No idea where that German pronunciation of ei came from...I had a similar doublet with chaos [ʧʰɑˈəʊ̯z] vs. [ˈkʰɛɪ̯ɒs].

Mūt Pōnnīm lamin Qert-ḥadist. 3pl Phoenician-m.PL from Carthage [ˈmuːt̪ʰ pʰoːn̪ˈn̪iːm l̪əˈmiːn̪ kʼɛr̪t̪ʰħæˈd̪is̪t̪ʰ] They are Phoenicians from Carthage. na ke maha unyaue | tsepa ke yonahi muyate I would like to know more. | Please make a thread. I'll work on it. :) Mūt Pōnnīm lamin Qert-ḥadist. 3p...

Mūt Pōnnīm lamin Qert-ḥadist.
3pl Phoenician-m.PL from Carthage
[ˈmuːt̪ʰ pʰoːn̪ˈn̪iːm l̪əˈmiːn̪ kʼɛr̪t̪ʰħæˈd̪is̪t̪ʰ]

They are Phoenicians from Carthage.

Personally I'd give that unused royal blue to Korea because of the Korean flag. Purple isn't a color I'd really associate with Korea. Oh, that's right! I don't know how I didn't notice that there's still an unused color that's super common in flags. However, when it comes to purple, please see the ...

Silōm, dūnīmī. ʿōdkom Zārin. peace lord-m.pl-my servant-your.pl Zaarin [s̪iˈl̪oːm d̪uːn̪iːˈmiː ʕoːd̪ˈkʰom z̪ɑːˈr̺in̪] Hello, my lords. I am your servant Zaarin. Yiʾmerti limallel Ṭarṭessīm. contemplate-1s INF-speak Tartessic-m.pl [jiʔmɛr̪ˈt̪̪ʰi l̪imɑl̪ˈl̪el̪ t̪̪ʼɑr̪t̪̪ʼɛs̪ˈs̪iːm] I deem it good to ...

Lack of cell phone access is a problem all over the world, nothing first-world about it. (It's landlines that tend to have that sort of skew.) Lack of landlines is a first world problem? I'm going to take a wild guess that not many Americans under the age of 10 have ever seen a landline; I haven't ...

Personally I'd give that unused royal blue to Korea because of the Korean flag. Purple isn't a color I'd really associate with Korea.

I'd just call it first world problems. :p Then again, I actively hate my cellphone, don't use it if I can avoid it, and virtually never take it with me unless I have reason to believe I'll need it because modern cellphones are the size of a trade paperback. :p And I'm in my upper 20s, not 80s.

Space60 wrote: ↑Thu Oct 25, 2018 4:27 pm How do you pronounce "nightingale"? For me it phonemically has /n/ because I use a glottal stop rather than a flap for the "t" [naI?INge@5]. If I had /N/ phonemically it would be *[naI4iNge@5].

Same: [ˈnɐɪ̯ʔn̩ˌgɛɪ̯ɫ].

While "somewhere" is largely preferred to "someplace", "sometime" is preferred to "somewhen" which is rarely used. "Somewhen" is a word...? :? At any rate, I probably wouldn't find it remarkable if someone used the word "someplace," but I ...

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Wed Oct 24, 2018 7:18 pm[ˈpʰɑːmpʰɪ̃s]

I'm curious: where does the nasalization on the reduced vowel come from?

pampas [ˈpʰɑmpɑs]
pompous [ˈpʰɑmpəs]
pampers [ˈpʰæmpɹ̩z]