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- 24 Oct 2015 05:54
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 89183
Re: Linguistic pet peeves
Henri, thurgh Godes fultume King on Engleneloande, Lhoauerd on Yrloande, Duk on Normandi, on Aquitaine, and Eorl on Aniow, send igretinge to aIle hise holde, ilærde and ileawede, on Huntendoneschire. Thæt witen the wel alle thæt we willen and unnen thæt, thæt ure rædesmen alle, other the moare dæl ...
- 24 Oct 2015 05:44
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 89183
Re: Linguistic pet peeves
But I'm in Minnesota now, and one noticeable feature of some of the speakers around here is tensing before /g/. It mostly sounds like [eə̯] to me, but I'd imagine speakers with [æɪ̯] before /ŋ/ who tense /æ/ before /g/ would have [æɪ̯] in this context as well. This is the flag-plague merger and it ...
- 28 Feb 2015 08:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orign of PIE morphology
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6621
Re: Orign of PIE morphology
So some PIE ancestor had been analytic and then became agglutinative and then fusional? If enough time passes, will a similar morphology evolve in French or English? French is already becoming agglutinative. "I don't love you" is [ʃtɛmpa]: ʃ-t-ɛm-pa 1SG-2SG-love-NEG You might see it writt...
- 28 Feb 2015 08:44
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orign of PIE morphology
- Replies: 23
- Views: 6621
Re: Orign of PIE morphology
Pre-PIE was probably a fairly regular agglutinating language. Then sound change, probably involving the loss of unstressed vowels, the reduction of the vowel system, and the deletion of consonants in awkward clusters turned that regularity into fusional madness. Also, according to Wikipedia, the asp...
- 18 Feb 2015 08:25
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Autonym etymology
- Replies: 40
- Views: 11368
Re: Autonym etymology
If your a white man surrounded by other white men, are you going to consider yourself "THE White Man"? Would you even need to distinguish yourself by skin colour? Likewise, Egyptian weren't the only black people in Africa... Also, the Egyptians were probably brown-skinned too. They probab...
- 18 Feb 2015 08:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Usage of English articles
- Replies: 55
- Views: 13559
Re: Usage of English articles
With regards to "Earth" and "The Earth", the definite form is the original usage while the form with no article I think originated in a scientific context and then spread into common use, leading to the 2 forms being in free variation. Also, in English there is a distinction in m...
- 18 Feb 2015 07:56
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1322456
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've noticed that my aspirated stops seem like they might be somewhat aspirated, so my [kʰ] might actually be [k͡xʰ] or [kˣʰ] (if that's how you transcribe mild affrication). Similarly, my [tʰ] might be [t͡sʰ] or [tˢʰ] and (much less noticeable) my [pʰ] might be [p͡ɸʰ] or [pᶲʰ]. High english conson...
- 18 Feb 2015 07:51
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1322456
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Well, for one thing it is often realized as a velar lateral, which is pretty weird.GrandPiano wrote:Tell me more about this "initial /ɫ/".taylorS wrote:In my dialect initial /ɫ/ seems to be turning into an uvular trill!
- 31 Jan 2015 09:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1322456
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I believe him because I have uvular allophones of velars before /l/ in my own speech. For me <claw> sounds like [qχʟɑː]shimobaatar wrote:Affricatization (?) certainly isn't off the table, although I personally don't hear it often; the uvular pronunciation is what I'm finding hard to believe.
- 31 Jan 2015 09:23
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1322456
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I've noticed that my aspirated stops seem like they might be somewhat aspirated, so my [kʰ] might actually be [k͡xʰ] or [kˣʰ] (if that's how you transcribe mild affrication). Similarly, my [tʰ] might be [t͡sʰ] or [tˢʰ] and (much less noticeable) my [pʰ] might be [p͡ɸʰ] or [pᶲʰ]. This is actually a ...
- 31 Jan 2015 09:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1322456
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In my dialect initial /ɫ/ seems to be turning into an uvular trill! I definitely have backing of velars in that environment, too.HinGambleGoth wrote:What is up with the sequence /kl/ in english, sounds like [qʰɫ] or even [χɫ] to me.
I swear, English is becoming bizarre.
- 18 Jan 2015 05:43
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1642133
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I translated the famous beginning Neoplatonist-ish verses of the Gospel of John ("In the Beginning was the Word...) into Future English. :mrgreen: En lā torā ō deŋ lárvōs Lā Ūrd, (in the start-of all things there-was The Word) yen Lā Ūrd hivōs bsēd Gōd, (and The Word he-was beside God) yen Lā Ū...
- 10 Jan 2015 08:25
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1642133
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Future English's sound change of /T D/ > /d/ leads to an overabundance of /d/ in affixes and grammatical particles/clitics and I'm trying to find to way to fix that because it bothers me.
- 10 Jan 2015 08:19
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread [2010–2019]
- Replies: 8666
- Views: 1461333
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Ti lalu kivo iti. be.PRF rain be.stone be.small Earlier, it rained pellets of ice. (My flatmates called it hail, but as far as I'm concerned, that's not hail.) Es swiš. Héw exom from šroŋ dãrturm. [ɛs swiʃ hew ˈɛxɔm fɻɔm ʂɻɔŋ ˈdãːɻʈʰuɻm] be.3SG.N sleet hail 3SG.N-come from strong thunder-storm It i...
- 06 Jan 2015 07:23
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang Conversation Thread [2010–2019]
- Replies: 8666
- Views: 1461333
Re: Conlang Conversation Thread
Ádeŋ es mur xūd dán xomd, óssád. Dey ẽyēr dédeŋ dā? [:(] [ˈædɛŋ ɛs muɻ xuːt tæŋ xɔmd | ˈosːæt || tɛj ˈɛ̃ːjɛːɻ ˈdedɛŋ dɑ ↑] Á-deŋ es mur xūd dán xomd | óssád || Dey ẽyēr dé-deŋ dā 1SG-think be.3SG.N more cold than comet | outside || Q any.other 3PL-think that I think it's colder than Hell, outside. ...
- 02 Dec 2014 05:24
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1043305
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
My new cousin-of-PIE lang: Plosive: /p pʰ t tʰ tʃ tʃʰ k kʰ/ <b p d t dj tj g k> Fricative: /f s ʃ h/ <f s sj h> Sonorant: /m n r l ʋ j/ <m n r l v j> Vowel /a e i o u/ <a e i o u> Syllable structure is (O)(S)V(C), where O is any obstruent and S is any sonorant. Fricatives are voiced between vowels.
- 01 Dec 2014 15:35
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1642133
Re: What did you accomplish today?
I've been doing some reading on PIE and it has me itching to do another PIE-cousin language like Alpic, this time emphasizing the stative ("perfect") and eventive verb distinction. An interesting thing I have read is that PIE aspect inflections seem to have originally been derivational aff...
- 01 Dec 2014 14:39
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1642133
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Further examples: kʷseyneyc̓ewteʔxʷc̓en̓emt? kʷ=se=i-ni-i-c̓ew-te'-xʷc̓en̓em-t which=Q=2s.P-PERF-REAL-help-make-chair-TR Which chair did he/she help you make? ye:weyik̓ʷeʔqeł ya:-we-i-i-k̓ʷaʔ-qeł PROG-EST-2s.P-REAL-be.dead-DREAM I dreamt that you had died. Dreams as an evidential catagory? AWESOME!...
- 01 Dec 2014 14:37
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: What did you accomplish today? [2011–2019]
- Replies: 11462
- Views: 1642133
Re: What did you accomplish today?
Threw out how Mithara verbs worked and basically started over on them. Again. xʷawusłsk̓aʔsxsx̱i:xʷ xʷa-wuš-ł-š-k̓aʔ-sxs-x̱-i:-xʷ all_over-REFL-PERF-1s.A-rub-fat-APPL.LOC-VIS-CONTROLLED I rubbed animal fat all over myself. (Surprisingly effective protection from hypothermia, so I've read.) If I did...
- 18 Nov 2014 11:08
- Forum: Translations
- Topic: While she was reading, he walked in. (Aspect)
- Replies: 38
- Views: 12136
Re: While she was reading, he walked in. (Aspect)
A new language I am working on:
Azcar incoliyè, ussubòrmacluz.
[aθˈkaʀ iŋkoˈlijɛ usːubɔʀmaˈkluθ]
azcar i-nco-liyè u-ssu-bòrmac-luz
as 3SG-PST.IMPFV-read 4SG-PST.PFV-enter-by.walking
Azcar incoliyè, ussubòrmacluz.
[aθˈkaʀ iŋkoˈlijɛ usːubɔʀmaˈkluθ]
azcar i-nco-liyè u-ssu-bòrmac-luz
as 3SG-PST.IMPFV-read 4SG-PST.PFV-enter-by.walking