The CBB

Porphyrogenitos wrote: ↑25 Feb 2021 01:45 We will leave this to the discretion of the individual users who submit proposals for the final tone-stress system.

Have those already been submitted?
If not, what are the rules for submitting a proposal or some proposals?

Yes! Although you don't need to list your 2nd, 3rd etc choices. I get why you're doing it, but unless we got everyone to list their choices and ran a whole ranked choice voting system I'm not really able to factor them in. So it only mattered on the vowel-length-and-diphthong inventory question, an...

Round 14 Unbounded stress type: 1st choice: B) Right/right 2nd choice: C) Left/left 3rd choice: A) Right/left Secondary stress: A) 2ndary stress is present Vowel length (and diphthong) inventory: 1st choice: D) 2nd choice: C) Chapter 20 Fusion .... 1st choice: A) exclusively concatenating 2nd choice...

k1234567890y wrote: ↑23 Feb 2021 04:52 I wonder what would the Rireinu version of this look like: https://www.zompist.com/amercult.html

I second k-y’s question. If the bicycle dragoon already has a website answering it, can she post the link again?
Thanks!

I know it’s early. . I vote for secondary stress; whether rhythmic or polar. . I vote for it to be weight-sensitive. . I vote for it to have the same weight-system primary stress has. . I vote for it to start at the other end of the word from the primary stress. . I vote rhythm instead of polar stre...

Are we going to have either polar secondary stress or rhythmic secondary stress?
If so should we vote on it before or after we vote on how many syllable-weights to have?

I started using exclamation points because I read somewhere that kids read texts from their parents as orders when there’re periods but as conversation when there’re exclamation points. I never verified that and anyway even assuming it’s true it usually wouldn’t be relevant to what I’m writing at th...

I’ve started using exclamation points where I used to use periods!

The Rakoczys have a March already. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cmFwBkzSjhU
Do the Radetzkys? Apparently so! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eab_eFtTKFs

* any doubly-closed syllable (coda is a cluster) is superheavy (trimoraic) IIRC, we do not allow code clusters per earlier vote. Apart from that, your stress idea looks like a promising first half of a proposal for the stress tone system. Even so we could have superheavy syllables. Are we going to ...

Long vowels: /i: ɨ: u:/ /e:/ /a:/ i.e. one to go with each short vowel. Diphthongs: /iu ui eu au ei ai ue ua ie ia/ i.e. post- and pre- -labialize and -palatalize each peripheral short vowel. (Not counting ii nor uu as diphthongs; I think they’re long monophthongs instead. So a total of twenty vowel...

Speaking of superheavy syllables, I propose: * an open syllable whose nucleus is a short monophthong is light (monomraic). * an open syllable whose nucleus is a long monophthong or a diphthong is heavy (bimoraic) * a singly-closed syllable (coda is not a cluster) whose nucleus is a short monophthong...

Question: How many syllable-weights are there? If the heaviest syllables are bimoraic, I vote D right-oriented. As a general rule if a word contains a trimoraic-or-heavier superheavy syllable the primary stress will be on one of its superheavy syllables whether or not it’s in the “stress window” tha...

Wow, elemtilas, you’re right! My (apparently faulty) memory is that Radetzky’s first name sounded feminine to me. But I don’t see her first name upon second look! I don’t know where I got the idea she is female! .... OTOH Henry Gladstone Kiku seems to be Kikuyu. (If he was Kenyan, and not a trans sa...

To me “duactionality” suggests “do it again: except, this time, actually do it!”

This is about linguistics but also too much in the spirit of somewhere else's Ephemera, so I put it here. Everyone's written word is different, but especially on the internet where one's writing not for posterity but as a part of quite informal conversations in a spirit of 'whatever', and so we wri...

hell, there's even a big ass hole in the ground on the north pole from where the ancient machines belched forth greenhouse gases and the like. Wow, the north pole of Kankonia has a big jerk on the ground too. lmfao i hadn't considered the pun One of the reasons I’m conscientious about hyphens; To d...

I find First Secretary Radetzky fascinating. She is dedicated to her career and her mission, and turns frustrations and delays and obstacles to her advantage by studying and reading up on things. She seems to always have a plan B and a plan C, and probably frequently has a plan D as well. She’s prob...

I'm presuming there's some kind of polyglottal translator service in use. Yes, in the very first scene, our hero with the Korean name approaches a big blonde woman and addresses her in English. Before he finishes she pulls her translator out of her ear and bangs it on her desk and curses it in Germ...

I figured out some more about how Adpihi and Reptigan assign the “official” first and second individual* names to their offspring.
*(the names they don’t share with their same-sex full siblings.)