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Interesting eng-y idea. Have you tried fleshing it out a bit more? There are 13 PoAs in the 2018 IPA chart of pulmonic-egressive consonants. And, 13 combinations of MoA-and-voicing. (For purposes of this post I’ll temporarily include voicing as part of “MoA”.) Consider a 4Cons in which the PoAs and...

I just watched “Hotel Artemis”.
Close to the end, one of the characters goes to throw a big switch on a big switch box.
Over the switch box is a label that says КОВФЕФЕ.
I think that was an Easter egg?

How about Para-Cartesian? Maybe! Or maybe “sub-Cartesian” or “pre-Cartesian”? Also, why not a smaller inventory cartesian language? Just stops vs. non-stops and labial vs. coronal vs. dorsal? Why not, indeed? ..... This second inventory was for a hypothetical 5Cons* in which no PoA nor MoA could be...

This is the best guess, I can come up with. It has some hardly natural parts in the labials and the palatals, but maybe someone can fix it. /m ɱ n ɳ ɲ ŋ ɴ/ /p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k g q ɢ/ /ɸ β f v s z ʂ ʐ ç ʝ x ɣ X ʁ/ /ʋ l ɻ j ʟ/ Mostly right. 12 stops/plosives: /p b t d ʈ ɖ c ɟ k g q ɢ/ 7 nasals: /m ɱ n...

Is the 38-consonant inventory described below a reasonable consonant inventory for a conlang that’s supposed to be naturalistic and realistic? Or at least learnable, speakable, and understandable? It has 7 voiceless fricatives 7 voiced fricatives 7 nasals 6 voiceless plosives 6 voiced plosives 5 app...

Khemehekis wrote: ↑

05 May 2020 13:21

eldin raigmore wrote: ↑

23 Jul 2019 20:17

I have something to confess, but I can’t think of a precise way to word it right now. I’ll try again later.

Hey eldin, have you ever come up with a way to word it?

I can’t even remember what it was anymore!

Anything less than 50% means someone else is replying! Or at least “replying”. It’s possible even then that you’re just talking past each other; but there’s also a chance you’re having an actual conversation! ..... I wouldn’t worry until over a third of the posts come from one user. .... Have you ev...

Random thought for tonight: We have the initialisms "wtf" (what the fuck), "tfw" (that feeling when) and "ftw" (for the win). That's three of the six possible permutations of those letters. Someone needs to come up with meanings for "fwt", "twf" and "wft". FWT might be part of a negative imperative...

No, it's from Ancient Greek σιγμοειδής , equivalent to sigma + -oid . Why do you ask? Because it occurred to me while watching an episode of “it’s OK to be smart”, the one about flattening the curve. He showed that the logistic growth-curve in total number of COVID cases was an S-shaped sigmoid cur...

Another cruel irony: - everyone 'vulnerable' (old or with underlying conditions) is meant to be completely self-isolating. Therefore, they're not meant to be shopping: they have to order online. - it is impossible to order online. All delivery slots for all the companies are already booked well int...

From the abstract of Coreferential Fourth‐Person Pronouns in Matses by David W. Fleck of LaTrobe Univ. Mates, a Panoan language spoken in Amazonian Peru and Brazil, has two fourth‐person (= “interclausal third‐person coreferential”) pronouns, an ergative one (ambi ) and an absolutive one (abi ), tha...

There’s a chain of Basement Burger Bars in the Detroit metro area.
It looks like the “burger brew cellar” you’re talking about inspired a translationism!
Are the names related at all?

Is the word “sigmoid” a contraction of the proper name “Sigmund Freud”?

Thank you, Aszev !

Wow!
My “short question” inspired plenty of answer!
Thanks, all! I’ll keep following!

Thank you, Salmoneus and Khemehekis!

@Khemehekis: “Maxxinista” is proper-noun-derived, so I wouldn’t want to count it. The same is true of “Xeroxxing”. “Doxxing” is a good catch! Thanks, Pabappa! Why is there a double x in doxxing? “Beta-buxxer” is new to me! What’s its etymology, if you know? ..... My own guessing was leaning towards ...

Anyone else think it’s unfair the pandemic has nothing to do with pandas?

Why is there a double x in anti-vaxxers?
Is there any other English word (excluding proper nouns) that’s spelled with a double x?

Salmoneus wrote: ↑

09 Feb 2020 21:35

...I was going to say more, I think, but I'm bored now.

I didn’t get bored at all!
Thanks for that informative and detailed post!