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- 14 Feb 2020 22:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1124
- Views: 293015
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Sanskrit question: What sound, exactly, does the letter "ḥ" represent? How come I see it in noun declension tables in word-final position where I would expect to see "s" (and often do see "s")? Was final "s" not pronounced /s/ in Sanskrit? I'm just a little c...
- 04 Feb 2020 18:07
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
- Replies: 898
- Views: 437797
Re: Forum News discussion/feedback thread
I don't understand why Qwed posted it in this thread. (Not that I have any clue what all of you are talking about, but . . .) Because it's in response to something posted in the Forum News thread (which you can't post in, hence we have this thread for posting responses to it), I suppose. Now, said ...
- 20 Jan 2020 21:53
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: Conlang YouTube, Metal Music, Emotions, Etc. [Split]
- Replies: 93
- Views: 61090
Re: (EE) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
I probably get a different audience from you. Rather than the "metalhead/nerd/edgy" demographic, my audience is the "typical Millennial/pop-rock fan/Youth Culturalist/rebel against social norms/anarchist" demographic. Mmh, yeah, that of course has something to do with it. A lot ...
- 18 Jan 2020 16:38
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Curiosities in Finnish
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29442
Re: Curiosities in Finnish
I don't intend to debate the etymology of kaveri , as it's not really my field of expertise, but I did find a Swedish word kavera . In its first sense it means 'to bail out' (< Ger. kavieren < Lat. caveō ) and in its second, Finland-Swedish, sense it variously means 'to chat, to boast, to make gest...
- 18 Jan 2020 16:19
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Surprising cognates
- Replies: 153
- Views: 108902
Re: Surprising cognates
So, according to Aszev's post in another thread, we have:
cavāre 'excavate', 'hollow out', 'perforate', 'pierce'
kaveri 'friend', 'buddy'
cavāre 'excavate', 'hollow out', 'perforate', 'pierce'
kaveri 'friend', 'buddy'
- 05 Jan 2020 20:17
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2020]
- Replies: 11605
- Views: 2052578
Re: (Conlangs) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Is /θ/ > /ts/ possible? Finnish had this, apparently, e.g. *meθän > metsän . I found that on the Diachronica, but it looks like proto-Finnish *θ derives from earlier *ts (e.g. * meθän is from proto-Finic * meccä ). There might be a good reason for having /θ/ in the middle, but it looks a bit suspic...
- 02 Jan 2020 12:53
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199367
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
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- 28 Dec 2019 23:15
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199367
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
Random thoughts: I seem to do my best thinking in the shower. This morning I ended up taking a shower twice as long as I intended because I was so busy thinking about the Lihmelinyan verb system. I was even writing out verb forms in the condensation on the shower door: étan, étes, étet (I came, you...
- 28 Dec 2019 16:50
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1124
- Views: 293015
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Re. a phrase like "deceptively simple". Does this phrase mean that something is simple, but appears not to be? Or does it mean the opposite: it is complex and appears to be simple? I've heard contradictory answers on this. Good question! In my experience, it means that something appears t...
- 28 Dec 2019 16:42
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199367
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any platform on the net is "don't talk back to the admin when they're cle...
- 23 Dec 2019 21:29
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
- Replies: 58
- Views: 21211
Re: A soun incàra vîv - Emilian lessons v2
No answer? [:(] I guess I will just post a new lesson and hope to get some more people interested [;)] For what it's worth, I'd like to announce that I, for one, am certainly interested. This is a rather well-written thread on a language that, as you pointed out in the first post, there's not exact...
- 23 Dec 2019 18:45
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: Curiosities in Finnish
- Replies: 42
- Views: 29442
Re: Curiosities in Finnish
-eerata verbs usually are loans from Swedish Well yes, but kaveerata exists without having a clear Swedish loan original, so it's not out of the question that it could've been borrowed from some other source and simply adapted to the existing model. That being said, I think it's more likely that i...
- 02 Dec 2019 19:40
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1124
- Views: 293015
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
In what positions and under what conditions did French keep morphological nominative -s, even after it lost cases? C.f. French fils . What VaptuantaDoi said. It is true that all French's retained nominative forms refer to humans. I seem to recall seeing that claimed for ours 'bear', but can't seem ...
- 26 Nov 2019 20:28
- Forum: Everything Else
- Topic: The Sixth Conversation Thread
- Replies: 789
- Views: 199367
Re: The Sixth Conversation Thread
*sighs* Well, finally got banned from the ZBB. Tempban though, right? So it seems. It's kind of difficult to tell, though (at least as an occasional lurker), just what logic that place operates on these days... Although I guess one rule that fairly consistently gets enforced on pretty much any plat...
- 14 Nov 2019 23:30
- Forum: Beginners' Corner
- Topic: Are velarized vowels possible?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 3119
Re: Are velarized vowels possible?
As with Pabappa, I've never come across "velarised vowels" and would suggest that they probably don't exist, at least in the same way the velarised consonants (consonants pronounced with the back of the tongue raised up towards the velum) do. Right; back vowels are already pronounced with...
- 31 Oct 2019 13:09
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197884
Re: English Orthography Reform
don't change words where there's no reason too currint :wat: and you missed "grately" [xD] Did I? I just thought I understood the reason why that was changed; "great" does conflict with normal English spelling rules, whereas "current", AFAICT, doesn't. But I guess I'm ...
- 31 Oct 2019 10:15
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197884
Re: English Orthography Reform
Wel, u can wate until sum peeple "in the frunt" start using mor logical spellings to start using it, or u can be one of those peeple in the frunt who start using it. I'm one of those peeple... The problem here is that using letters, such as c and u , as words originated text speak and wil...
- 20 Oct 2019 21:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197884
Re: If English used diacritics
I'd say <i y> should be spelled <ai ay> if they are pronounced /ai/, and <a> should be spelled <ea> or <ae> if pronounced /ei/. Yea, sam piepel haev sajestid thaet wi spel inglish saunds with "cantinental" leter vaelius, olthou yu haev tu meik sam impravizeishen, for the saunds thaet igzi...
- 18 Oct 2019 22:21
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Orthography Reform
- Replies: 402
- Views: 197884
Re: If English used diacritics
Topic merged. I'd personally be in favor of expanding the way diacritics currently âre, or have historically been, used. That is, take the way they've already been used and regularize it to mark unusual pronunciations, but keep it fairly limited; môstly to situations whêre no oħer way of regularizin...
- 18 Oct 2019 21:37
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: English Dialects
- Replies: 79
- Views: 45478
Re: English Dialects
Less on the lines of phonology, but I just wanted to share my favourite thing from up here in Yorkshire, which is the word "gizzit", a contraction of "give us it" where "us" means "(to) me" [:P] Same in Scotland! The usual written form is "gies it"....