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by Aevas
27 Apr 2020 17:19
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431617

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

• Personal threads for practicing a certain language. → Threads should be titled <[Username] – [Language]>; e.g. Aszev – Français. • Question threads for a specific language. → Threads should be titled <[Language] Question Thread: Questions about [Language]>, where the second part is in the languag...
by Aevas
26 Apr 2020 23:05
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431617

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

I think it would be good to elaborate on the purpose of personal threads. Did you grab that idea from the UniLang forum? At UniLang, there is a difference between personal threads and conversation threads, but it isn't clear to me whether you're replicating that here... At UniLang personal threads,...
by Aevas
26 Apr 2020 20:33
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: Language practice thread 2
Replies: 150
Views: 52473

Re: Language practice thread 2

Qu'est-ce que vous avez fait cette fin de semaine, vous autres? Moi, j'ai fait des changements au site, y compris la mise en ordre de ce forum. 🙂

What have you guys been doing this weekend? As for me, I've made changes to the board, including setting up this forum. 🙂
by Aevas
26 Apr 2020 19:30
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News Thread
Replies: 108
Views: 150751

Re: Forum News Thread

From the Admin ► The Other Languages forum has been removed due to inactivity and other reasons. ► We now have a new forum: Language Learning & Non-English , where the focus is on learning, practicing and discussing in languages other than English. The goal is to incorporate the spirit of the O...
by Aevas
26 Apr 2020 16:40
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431617

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

I can appreciate that in an abstract sense. But sudden mass deletion of people's posts is a little unfair, don't you think? Yes, that is true, but I did not delete the forum into the void! I archived all the threads, and am currently sorting through them, since many of the threads can be relabeled ...
by Aevas
26 Apr 2020 15:08
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
Replies: 898
Views: 431617

Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread

Wait, all the non-English stuff has just been deleted!? [I mean, I know I wasn't using it anyway, but...] The main issue with the non-English section was that hardly anybody used it. During the past six months only two threads had got any new posts at all. Another problem was that it wasn't being u...
by Aevas
25 Apr 2020 22:21
Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
Topic: The Language Learning & Non-English forum
Replies: 0
Views: 10585

The Language Learning & Non-English forum

This forum is dedicated to the studying of natural languages (and special-case conlangs like Esperanto) , and to discussions in languages other than English. It is thus aimed at those who want to learn and study such a language, and at those who already speak a language other than English and want t...
by Aevas
25 Apr 2020 18:52
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Forum News Thread
Replies: 108
Views: 150751

Re: Forum News Thread

From the Admin

► To keep the various game threads in one place, I have created a new Games subforum (found in Everything Else). All active game threads have been moved there.
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by Aevas
25 Apr 2020 18:25
Forum: Games
Topic: The Games forum
Replies: 0
Views: 11851

The Games forum

The purpose of the Games forum is to collect the various small-scale game threads on the board. The type of game threads that belong in this forum are: • Games with the purpose of editing something in the previous post. (E.g. applying sound change or romanization) • Games where the purpose is to fig...
by Aevas
23 Apr 2020 17:19
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275045

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Various languages Sutra vs. :hrv: <sutra> "tommorow" Maybe I'm missing some meaning of the former, since it's not defined, but I don't really see how these are either false friends or unfortunate coincidences? This is definitely a false friend, what leads you to say it isn't? False friend...
by Aevas
23 Apr 2020 15:53
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275045

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

Shemtov wrote: 23 Apr 2020 12:05 Various languages Sutra vs. :hrv: <sutra> "tommorow"
Maybe I'm missing some meaning of the former, since it's not defined, but I don't really see how these are either false friends or unfortunate coincidences?
by Aevas
15 Apr 2020 15:17
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences
Replies: 881
Views: 275045

Re: False friends and other unfortunate coincidences

:esp: Sueco "Swede" and zueco "clog" Both pronounced exactly the same outside of Spain and I could see people thinking they're related since Sweden is home to träskor Hmm, zueco pretty clearly comes from Latin soccus , so I wonder why the initial consonant fronted. Italian also ...
by Aevas
15 Apr 2020 15:11
Forum: Everything Else
Topic: Other Creativity
Replies: 1362
Views: 358496

Re: Other Creativity

Dormouse559 wrote: 15 Apr 2020 00:02caramel-filled brown sugar cupcakes topped with crème mousseline and dipped in more caramel
Looks very tasty! Good use of quarantine time [:)]
by Aevas
08 Apr 2020 12:53
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 281973

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Maybe it's because native speakers tend to naïvely perceive it as "pronouncing the t like a d", whether they have it in their dialect or not. This is what I suspected, but all the references to /d/ were of this kind, which looks too much like a layman's approximation for me to be able to ...
by Aevas
07 Apr 2020 19:26
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 281973

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

Does anyone know if /d/ is turned into [ɾ] in New Zealand English for speakers who also do this with /t/? I find plenty of sources who talk about /t/ but no one mentions /d/...
by Aevas
03 Apr 2020 10:58
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Replies: 1106
Views: 281973

Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here

I've started noticing when reading English language academic papers about linguistics, that often times French quotes are left completely untranslated. I've seen enough papers do this that I'm wondering whether or not it's standardized in the field maybe or at least was at some time. Anyone else ev...
by Aevas
02 Apr 2020 22:09
Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
Topic: Uhoq Vernissage
Replies: 11
Views: 3443

Re: Uhoq Vernissage

I enjoyed reading this presentation. It's well-structured and your images are pleasing to look at. It was a good selection of information for an initial presentation, I find. I look forward to seeing more [:)] To what era of Earth's would Uhoq's present day compare, technology and quality of life-wi...
by Aevas
01 Apr 2020 20:45
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: False cognates
Replies: 902
Views: 325125

Re: False cognates

guitar < Spanish guitarra < Arabic qīṯāra < Latin cithara < Ancient Greek κιθάρα 'lyre'

sitar < Hindi sitār < Persian setâr lit. 'three strings'
by Aevas
25 Mar 2020 16:39
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Romance tidbits
Replies: 37
Views: 8806

Re: Romance tidbits

It is. So, male habitus > *[maˈlabto] > Old Catalan malaute > hypercorrected to OCat malalte > with regularized gender marker, modCat malalt. Other examples: - cubitum 'elbow' > *[ˈkob(ə)do] > *[ˈkɔwdə] > hypercorr. OCat colde and colze > modCat colze. - decimus 'tenth part' later 'tithe' > *[ˈdɛdz...
by Aevas
24 Mar 2020 19:36
Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
Topic: Romance tidbits
Replies: 37
Views: 8806

Re: Romance tidbits

Would you happen to know where the second /l/ comes from in Catalan malalt 'sick'? French (malade) and Italian (malato) both lack it, but Occitan has malaut, which seems to have existed in Old Catalan as well, leading me to guess that it might be a hypercorrection of [awt] > [aɫt]?