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AFAIK, Language is the title of classic linguistics textbook by Leonard Bloomfield, and I guess that is what Porphyrogenitos meant.

ɶʙ ɞʛ wrote: ↑20 Dec 2020 20:20 Is this attested or realistic?

/tˤ dˤ sˤ nˤ/ > /ʈ ɖ ʂ ɳ/

I am not sure. I know of no natlang precedent, but I do have considered just this idea for a conlang.

As far as I understand what Wikipedia writes about this, a Canfield ocean requires a low-oxygen atmosphere, which is certainly not what you want.

RPG role playing game RPG rocket propelled grenade To get these legitimately confused would require a highly specific context, ... i've seen it in a meme post, but I suspect the person was only pretending to be confused becase they spelled out "role playing game" in their post, suggesting they knew...

1) Non-green plants exist in nature here on Earth. Plants with red or purple leaves are not terribly uncommon. Yes, but these also have chlorophyll in their leaves, and it is that which their photosynthesis is based on. It is just that they have additional red or purple pigments which have a larger...

Here's one that just hit me: FSM Federated States of Micronesia FSM Flying Spaghetti Monster Also FSM Finite State Machine What's a finite state machine? Is it some kind of quantum technology? Nope. It is a theoretical model of a simple information-processing machine; Wikipedia is your friend and w...

Well, coming from near Hamburg, Kiez specifically refers to the area around Reeperbahn, a neighbour associated with organized crime and prostitution. It is more like a proper name of the place. Like the Viertel in Bremen IIRC. I see. AFAIK, the Berlin usage is indeed older, originating in a Slavic ...

False friends exist even between different places speaking the same language, as the following German example shows:

Berlin Kiez 'neighbourhood' vs. Hamburg Kiez 'demimonde, organized crime'

Old Albic: Proto-Indo-European, Hittite, Georgian and Insular Celtic. Also, Quenya.

Creyeditor wrote: ↑01 Sep 2020 20:10 I'd do it with a superscript gamma, like this /t/ for example /tˠ/.

Yes, that's the usual way to do it.

PIE did indeed have postpositions . We can see survivors in, e.g., Latin -que (PIE -kwe) and -ve (PIE -we) and the variable -cum (PIE kom), the last of which even survives in Spanish conmigo < L. cum mecum. Hittite has postpositions as well (e.g., -ku < -kwe). Greek preserved PIE -de, and. Germanic...

I like the way you constructed a featural alphabet out of existing letters.

My favourite is:

DOS - Disk Operating System; also short for MS-DOS
DoS - Denial of Service

Well, it is merely an idea I exploit in my conculture. I don't really believe in it having been real. Your observations on the Atlantis myth are valid and correct.

What's the counterargument that it wasn't the Minoan culture? They even had (the idea of) hieroglyphs that may indicate that there was more going on than just trade routes with Egypt. The geography does not fit! It is not "beyond the Pillars of Hercules" (some authors have tried to move the Pillars...

The question there then becomes "where to place Atlantis?", and I think WeepingElf has summed up why answering that question is pretty difficult (we know that it didn't exist, and assuming it isn't just pure allegorical fiction, the possible sources of inspiration probably weren't capable of crossi...

The idea that Aztlán and Atlantis are the same name for the same place has been peddled by hundreds of "I have found Atlantis!" crackpots; in fact, it is a standard staple in this kind of pseudo-science. Now I hardly know anything about Nahuatl, and therefore have no idea of what Aztlán means or wha...

jimydog000 wrote: ↑18 Jun 2020 14:55

WeepingElf wrote: ↑18 Jun 2020 13:50 It's best the way it is. Neither circlifying the octagon nor filling the little white spaces would improve it, I think.

lol, your avatar.

My avatar was not the reason to make this suggestion. I do think your flag looks more interesting than mine the way it is.

It's best the way it is. Neither circlifying the octagon nor filling the little white spaces would improve it, I think.

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑13 Jun 2020 18:04 I don’t think seinsart and gender are the same thing.

They aren't. In fact, Seinsart is not a commonly used German word, rather something to find in the writings of German-language philosophers. The German word for 'gender' is Geschlecht.