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I'm Romanian and my wife is Aromanian.

I guess it goes to show ... opposites attract.

If a language was (C)V(C), and had restrictions on the initial consonant of a closed syllable, and then became (C)V, with now illegal final consonants taking an empethetic vowel, how stable would the restrictions be for morphemes that used to be a closed syllable? Take an example noun , */jæ:tæ/, h...

CSS Cascading Style Sheets CSS Content Scramble System Another one that few people would mix up, except in a highly specific context. Here it was me nearly twenty years ago, reading the words of people upset about some company's new copyright protection mechanism, but at a time when Internet Explor...

Thanks for the lesson. Though oddly what caught my eye is not your main point, but the idea that the central government would tax the states. What ever happened to that? Did that just go away sometime between the Articles of Confederation and the proper Constitution? Something to do with the differe...

We forgot BLM .... BLM Black Lives Matter BLM Bureau of Land Management I remember someone being momentarily confused in 2016 when talking about the protests in Malheur Cty, Oregon. I remember thinking to myself "it finally happened" because I was waiting for someone to make that mistake. And it was...

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...

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...

You can use fortis vs lenis, but I'd hesitate on that because you're saying you don't want a distinction between fortis and lenis in the phonology, .... you're just saying it's allophonic at the end of a word. This would mean that the listeners would have to make greater effort to distinguish speech...

My advice is just to do it the hard way and get it over with. Better than having a nagging feeling in the back of your mind that your sound changes arent quite right. p.s. i think you broke a sentence in the middle towards teh end of your post but my advice is the same either way.

I have a dream diary but Ive been neglecting it lately. Ive had at least one dream per night through all of last week, for example .... but the dreams didn't stand out from each other. The dream I had last night was a bit different, and I wish I remembered more of it, but ... I was in a cafeteria of...

i think at least in the case of Arabic, the difference is that Modern Standard Arabic is not the speech of any one dialect, but a scholarly form based on the archaic speech of the 7th century AD, almost as different from the modern forms as Latin is from the modern Romance languages. Whereas German,...

Consonant-Vowel-Interaction: Rounding of back vowels is lost except adjacent to labial consonants. Afterwards, either new labials emerge independently adjacent to unrounded vowels or new non-labials emerge independently adjacent to rounded vowels. Sometimes coronal consonants do not take part in th...

Okay you could unround your /o u/ and then get new ones from other sources. I know you said you didnt want to do that, but I dont really see another path forward since your new central vowels have to come from somewhere and /e i/ > /ɤ ɯ/ would be difficult to explain. Finnish did /nakra/ "laugh" > /...

Beware of reconstructed Japanese sound shifts ... Im no expert, but Ive seen some supposed sound changes described that are much easier to explain as grammatical analogy or as variant readings of the same glyph. /hi/ > /hu/ looks really unlikely to me, unless it can be shown that it happened in all ...

bump, because it's been a month... DHS Department of Homeland Security DHS Department of (Health and) Human Services. The federal department is always and only DHHS, with four letters, but state level divisions of it can be called just DHS. The missing H seems to always be "health", so the DHS acron...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑10 Sep 2020 03:41 I also had a birthday yesterday. On September 8, 2020, I turned 14.

umm...

Today is my 39th birthday.

I dont really celebrate birthdays and didnt even remember mine was today until about noon.

How important is aesthetics and sound in a conlang? Obviously, a conlang needs sound to be spoken, but some conlangers aim to make a language that sounds nice to them, while others point out that a language that sounds pleasant all the time is impossible and thus aesthetics and preference isn't tha...

Poswa and Pabappa are baby talk. The first sketch of what I now call Pabappa is from a story I wrote when I was 11 years old. It was the first story I wrote in which the child superheros explore a new planet and meet up with children younger than themselves, and those kids turn out to have superpow...

When I was 11 years old I tried to write a science fiction novel involving child superheros who fly around space winning battles against ever more impossible odds, but I never finished it. Looking back I think I was better suited to the Choose Your Own Adventure format, and perhaps even a simple poi...