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It should also be noted that because they are especially associated with old, traditional areas, particularly Kyoto, there is now definitely also a decorative or aesthetic aspect to their continued existence.

They're called inuyarai . They perform the following functions: - as you said, prevent damage to buildings from foot traffic/bicycles/etc. - prevent dogs from peeing directly on buildings, to prevent rot - protect the walls of buildings from splashing rain and mud, also to prevent rot - prevent thie...

Sorry for failing to respond for so long. 1. I haven't seen your document, but if it has acknowledgements and links, I think that's good enough. 2. As far as legality goes, one of my images is scanned straight from a book I own (I mention this). The Devanagari and Hieroglyphic images were taken from...

Sorry, uhegao was a typo; I did search for ahegao. It sounds like ahe is probably onomatopoeic for the sound the person makes when making whatever face that is (sorry, I really know very little about this anime subculture stuff).

Mizuho is actually mizu.ho (and the name Iha is surely i.ha), so the /h/ is morpheme initial, meaning it is not (necessarily) subject to the p > w/Ø sound change (but cf. Fujiwara < fuji.hara). This allows words like Yokohama , Chihiro , kaihatsu , tsunahiki , shifuku , taihen , ehon etc. to exist....

Japanese does palatalize consonants before /i/, and it also causes lip compression before /ɯ/, since /ɯ/ also has lip compression. This is why /hɯ/ becomes [ɸɯ], and why /wɯ/ can't occur, since /w/ is almost the same thing. It's also these features that allow for the standard dropping of /i/ and /ɯ/...

... Hey Bob, I'm just responding here because I thought maybe you missed my reply, so I'm just checking in. I'd really like it if you could provide us with some concrete examples of some of the little things about logographic scripts that nobody even knows to look for. As someone who has designed m...

I get that you're busy, but I'm baffled as to why you spend so much time in this thread talking about other things: Atlantean, Ferengi, Elamite, Hattic, Khmer, Southeast Asian conlang, etc. etc. etc....in the entirety of this thread, the only concrete information you've given about the language to w...

Or the quick gloss of all of the original 1300s Early Modern Italian text you mentioned?

It's interesting to imagine Japan under the influence of a mini Roman Empire rather than China, but unless the Romans conquered Japan, it would be a mix of Roman and Chinese at most. I wonder if the Romans would become tributaries of China.

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I'm still hoping to see some concrete answers to the questions I posed above, while keeping in mind the advice given by sangi39 and Salmoneus elsewhere on the board.

Keep in mind that the oldest attested form of the Japanese language comes form the 8th century. Its phonology, particularly the vowels, are not fully determined. The language may or may not have vowel harmony. It would be hard to determine how this would influence Latin. Old Japanese also had a very...

A line on a vowel marked what is written with n not even a nasal vowel in some old orthographies. Maybe this is rather what I suppose. I must check again. Yes, this was the case in various orthographies around the 13th century. You definitely see this in Old Spanish and Old French, e.g. OSp /ˈantes...

There's always GTA, which bothered me at first when it was applied to Grand Theft Auto...because for me, it always meant Greater Toronto Area. "The GTA" still does, anyway.

There are actually quite a few multisyllabic Ferengi names:

List of Ferengi on Memory Alpha

Since you say that you're not that much into Star Trek conlangs, I find it curious that you have run a Facebook group for the past two years dedicated to the Okrand languages, the most famous and well-developed of which is obviously Klingon. What motivates you to run a group centered on a language y...

But a lot of things that I look for in logographic writing systems, I discovered within the past 15 years. It's all these little things that nobody even knows to look for. The point of my reply is that I specialize in conscripts and logographic writing systems and that most people really just scrat...

Thanks for the reply. Good luck with the process.

It would be nice. I noticed that almost all the posts of my Khmer script thread are gone. All the posts with lessons anyway. And my Learn Japanese thread starts at lesson 11 now. I hope there is some chance for these to be recovered.

Measuring from the latest post makes sense. I suspected as much, I just misunderstood your post above.