The CBB

What's most annoying is that this test, whose name will be kept silent despite the fact that all of you will probably quickly figure out what it is*, is required to get into basically any college that matters. Now, I can breeze through and do really well on almost all of it, but I hate this part be...

This actually seems pretty common in japanese. A single word can often be written with different kanji, often with slight (or not so slight) differences in meaning, although sometimes there is disagreement over what those differences are, and sometimes there doesn't seem to be any difference at all....

Japanese has the worst orthography ever. The characters have too many and often unpredictable readings, and there are way too many irregular ateji spellings that are not based on character readings at all.

Would there be any difference between a voiceless aspirated stop and a consonant cluster consisting of a voiceless stop plus h, for example kʰ vs kh

how many sounds and tones and how difficult consonant clusters would be the minimal for a monosyllabic language?

Are there languages that have no or almost no homophones?

Can consonants have tone?

Would it be possible to make a phonemic (in the sense that pronunciation is predictable from spelling, not neccesarily the other way around) that represents all dialects?

Is there any language that doesn't use cases, but has a wery free word order?

I should have clarified, i meant based on which stage of chinese as in terms of vocabulary choice and grammar (which is different from any modern form of chinese), i'm in doubt over whatever or not it is old chinese or middle chinese.

What spoken language is classical chinese based on?

Make them have a simple, one to one corrospondence of letter to phenome based on the most popular and prestigious dialect. What if there are several presigious dialects, or if the "most popular" and "most prestigious" dialect aren't the same? The most popular and most prestigiou...

Make them have a simple, one to one corrospondence of letter to phenome based on the most popular and prestigious dialect. What if there are several presigious dialects, or if the "most popular" and "most prestigious" dialect aren't the same? The most popular and most prestigiou...

Well i have heard people pronounce it like that, or a least it sounds like that to me. Anyway it is correct i'm not a native speaker (i'm from denmark), so i'm probably not the best judge on what the correct pronunciation is. Anyway, a better argument for why it should be spellen pronounciation is t...

Thakowsaizmu wrote:

Xing wrote:I would like to change the spelling of <pronunciation> to <pronounciation>. That would be one letter more, but it makes sense.

But it's /pɹə'nʌn.si.eʃɨn/ not /pɹə'nɑʊn.si.eʃɨn/

Weird, i pronunce it pɹənɑʊnzieiʃn̩.

Make them have a simple, one to one corrospondence of letter to phenome based on the most popular and prestigious dialect.

Actually, most english word are spelled consistently and pronunciation is predictable in most cases.

Is there any difference between k and ɡ̊?

Can consonants that are not stops be aspirated?

Is it more common to have or not to have negative concord?