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I dreamt the other night that an alien abduction store was selling this meme and I was so confused I woke up.

(Alien abduction stores have nothing to do with aliens, by the way. They sell meme magnets and similar things.)

Khemehekis wrote: ↑22 Sep 2020 11:09 MSM MainStream Media
MSM Men who have Sex with Men

Similarly is MLM, "men loving men" or "multi-level marketing".

Thanks guys. I appreciate the detailed responses. [:)] (Sorry for not quoting properly. Easier to format a ton of quotes this way.) Counterintuitively, it's actually relatively common for /i/ to be treated as neutral Huh, that's interesting! I'll have to dig deeper into how individual natlangs deal ...

(This is a reply to eldin raigmore. Salmoneus, I see the reply you've posted in the meantime, and I will read it shortly.) In phonology, vowel harmony is an assimilatory process in which the vowels of a word have to ... Diphthongs were harmonized as well, although they were soon monophthongized beca...

I'm not well-versed on vowel harmony, but I'm trying to understand it. I think I have the gist of how it works, but I'm a bit confused about diphthongs. If a language has, say, rounding/backness harmony, could /ai/ coexist in a word with /u/, or /au/ with /i/? (Let's assume that /a/ is neutral.) Wha...

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I don't mean to interrupt, but I just realized the definite affix in Yuraalian is a heavy syllable, and because it affixes onto nouns, it affects stress placement in certain words (and vowel quality in turn). For example: jalun [ˈʑɒln̩] '(a) road' ol-jalun [ˈolʑəˌlun] 'the road' Is this naturalistic...

I think it's likely that the majority of plant life on a planet will utilize whichever pigment(s) takes the most advantage of the star's peak output. It's evolutionarily advantageous. However: 1) Non-green plants exist in nature here on Earth. Plants with red or purple leaves are not terribly uncomm...

Hello! I'm... a novice conlanger, I suppose. I've dabbled in conlanging on and off since high school, though I've got nothing to show for it besides various scrapped attempts. And a linguistics degree. (Conlanging is what sparked my interest in linguistics.) I've recently jumped back into conlanging...