Zompist Bboard Again

I wonder if there is some kind of consensus brewing in here which could eventually lead to a General Preferred Romanization For All Languages.

bbbosborne wrote: ↑Thu Aug 16, 2018 3:31 pmguess the LCK still wins?

The LCK always wins. You do not question this.

This has got to be a very well-studied area. Have you checked Pullum and Huddleston? What is that? He's talking about The Cambridge Grammar of the English Language (2002) by Rodney Huddleston and Geoffrey Pullum (of Language Log fame) (eds.). It's an English grammar 1800+ pages long, a wonder of a ...

What's wrong with hačeks? Nothing particularly, although it is arguable that one should observe a tendency towards the elimination of diacritics in one's orthography if possible. Although they should be restricted to just the palatalised consonants. Yes. p-hachek is unlikely to suggest /pf/, for ex...

Linguoboy wrote: ↑Sun Aug 12, 2018 11:57 amThis has got to be a very well-studied area. Have you checked Pullum and Huddleston?

What is that?

In sequences of three words where the middle word can contract with either of the other two, is it known if there are any factors which govern which contraction is actually used? As an example, consider "you aren't" versus "you're not"; the first seems more natural to me, but the...

Does the investigation into Boris Johnson mean it's already decided that he'll be kicked out? If not, why isn't the process public? Context: http://www.bbc.com/news/uk-politics-45130532 Boris is too popular, and thus too valuable to the Conservatives, to actually be kicked out. Expect a slap on the...

Travis B. wrote: ↑Wed Aug 01, 2018 7:11 pm Pronouncing final /i/ as [e] is primarily a singing thing in NAE, not something in normal everyday speech.

I can remember noticing this away back in 1984, in a song by - wait for it - Howard Jones, who was from High Wycombe.

Max1461 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 06, 2018 12:25 pm An articulation of phonemes, a movement of phrases, an agglutination of affixes. You can make these all day...

Yes, but the qualifier "official" restricts it somewhat.

What is the correct linguistic term for a group of phonemes, whether unordered ("I put a ??? down here a moment ago, and it's vanished") or ordered ("It's naive to assume you can model speech entirely as ???")?

Risla wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 6:01 pm

alice wrote: ↑Tue Jul 31, 2018 11:01 am I will hopefully be returning to work for the second time soon, with any luck.

Good luck with this!

Doso. Returning is one thing; staying returned is another. But I know ore now than I did the first time.

I will hopefully be returning to work for the second time soon, with any luck.

I can't find it on the website, but The Grauniad on Saturday had a headline which was something like "... advice for women on heat".

Apropos of which: Are you taking requests, Sal? And, if so, can you explain this mishegoss with Labour rewriting the standards on precisely how insulting you're allowed to be to Jews? Sal will no doubt go into much more detail, but in summary the Labour Party is torn between trying not to offend it...

Because it is a lot easier to get complete closure between two lips than it is between the lower lip and the teeth. In fact before the advent of modern dentistry I reckon true labiodental stops would have been impossible for many people because of gaps between the teeth allowing airflow, when in or...

Are there any theories of phon[ology,etics] which explain why, in many (most?) languages, /p/ and /b/ are bilabials, but /f/ and /v/ are labiodentals? I suppose KEEP CALM and CONLANG ON; that's just what the LORD intended will have to do in the absence of anything else, but if you feel compelled to ...

... and the new ZBB is complete. Welcome, Sal! What kind of deal-or-no-deal do you think will eventually be struck, to the extent that it's in any way predictable?

Are there any instances of palatalised and nonpalatalised consonants alternating in initial position within the inflection of a word? This could happen, for example, in some Indo-European varieties when an initial /k/ or /g/ is variously followed immediately by palatalising /e/ alternating with nonp...

Because we'll need one sooner or later. So...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Because we'll need one sooner or later. So...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Because we'll need one sooner or later. So...

alice wrote: ↑Sun Jul 22, 2018 1:59 pm Stack space exceeded. Please restart your system.