Flaidish typos and/or questions

[Glenn]

In re-reading the grammar of Flaidish, I noticed a few errors and/or questions:

- In the section on verb forms, the description of the habitual form labels the indefinite forms as definite, and vice versa. (I can repost this correction in Almea if necessary.)

- Under “Nominalizers”, the suffix -chet appears to normally shorten the root vowel (if the root ends in a consonant, as per the usual phonological rules), but the sample text shows fool ear -> foolchet earwax, rather than folchet.

Later, under “Adjectivizers”, the suffix -ick shows floom -> floomick, but juur -> jurick; I was not sure whether the latter shortening was an error or an irregularity, although jurick appears in a later example and in the lexicon.

-At the end of the section “Yes/no questions”, in the set of three example sentences, ʔyd teen “at night” appears to be missing from the middle sentence, although it is still given in the translation below.

-In the example about the ʔubeer, Footnote 3 refers to the gloss 3sS-4s0, but the gloss for the sentence in question has 3sS-3s0 instead, when it should be the former. In addition, Footnote 7 has a glottal stop instead of the number “7”, both in the superscript and in the footnote itself (unless the latter was done deliberately, given the plethora of glottal stops in Flaidish).

[zompist]

Thanks for the corrections! The typos should be fixed now.

I also took the opportunity to put all the cited sentences and orthographic examples into the Flaidish alphabet.

The orthographic variations you mention are (purposely) irregular.

[So Haleza Grise]

Another stray typo: The Flaidish transcription of the sentence Baub kroog ʔy chunt doesn't display the glottal stop correctly.

[Emily]

the page consistently useds /ʋ/ for short <u>, but this ipa symbol indicates a consonant; is this supposed to be /ʌ/?

[Lērisama]

the page consistently useds /ʋ/ for short <u>, but this ipa symbol indicates a consonant; is this supposed to be /ʌ/?

It's /ʌ/ on the picture, but it's in a row with /ɪ/, so I'd always assumed it was /ʊ/ – I feel like an actual [ʌ] or thereabouts would be noteworthy enough to mention in the text, and it would have to be lost on the chart for that. Maybe /ɤ/, with /ʌ/ used (in the picture) for Englishiness? But then why would ⟨ʋ⟩ be used in the text?

[zompist]

It's supposed to be /ʊ/.

ʌ is properly a back vowel in IPA, but it's used in the US (I can't say about the UK) for a more central vowel. You can probably get phoneticists in a fistfight by asking if [e] is an allophone of /ʌ/ in a given English dialect.

Edit: Page updated.