Here's my answer, using ixals' numbers: 1/2/3/4+5/6/7/8/9/10/11/12/13/14/15/16 skʰaul.diː skʰlot.tiː 5/6/7/8/9/10+11/12/13/14/15/16 skʰalˈdiː skʰlɔtˈtiː 11/12/13/14+15/16 skʰalˈdiː skʰlɔtˈtiː 15+16 skʰəlˈtiː skʰrɔˈtiː 15 ɕcʰuˈθiː ɕkʰrɔˈθiː 16 skʰiːˈtɕiː ʂʈʂɔˈtɕiː 11/12+13/14 kʰarˈdiː kʰjatˈtiː 13+14...

Solution: When in the Course of human events it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with one another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a de...

A Romance structural false friend, that took quite some time for me to get used to: In Catalan, you form the preterite by using anar 'to go' + infinitive, which mirrors the future construction found in so many other Romance languages. C ATALAN va parlar 's/he spoke' S PANISH va a hablar 's/he will s...

Hominid wrote: ↑

Thu 15 Feb 2018, 00:46

Obviously IPA should probably be left alone since it's universally recognized, but if you could make your own version of it, what would it be like?

I feel like this relates to so many of the discussions fueled by our common interest here

Apparently Irish and Scottish Gaelic fáilte/fàilte 'welcome' are cognate with English well and will (which are also cognate with each other)!

Evet! Vikipedi, Türk dilde beş bin Fransız kelimenin olduğunu söyledi. Onların nazal ünlüyi Türkçe’ye uyarladıklar gibi en çok hoşuma gidiyor: Yes! Wikipedia said that there are five thousand French words in the Turkish language. How they adapted the nasal vowels to the Turkish language is what I l...

VALENCIAN/CATALAN
Nadal 'Christmas'

Ancient Greek κάρμα 'cream skimmed off' (also 'wool shorn off')
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Finnish kerma 'cream'

I'm told that in Swedish, :swe: hel "whole" and vete "wheat" are not combined to make a word for whole wheat bread , because if they did the result would be identical with or resemble helvete "Hell". This smacks of one of those "and on the lighter side of the news" anecdotes like Spanish speakers n...

VALENCIAN/CATALAN
raspallar 'to brush'

I can't post about phonetic [ s ] without those ungodly spaces, because otherwise, the board's code takes it as a strikeout. Given the heavy Linguistics leanings of this board, can Aszev do anything? If not can he complain to phpBB, because this is a big problem? I noticed the same thing when I goi...

There's also a box to 'Disable BBCode' underneath the field where you type.

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Hi, thank you. tbh it feels weird posting with this name, and I havent checked yet if it's possible to change, but I did check to see if "Soap" was taken and it looks like the memberlist here was recycled and/or pruned in 2010 such that any older accounts no longer exist. You can have it changed, b...

I'd put the image in a spoiler, but since they don't work at the moment, I'll just link it here.

Not sure if this is the right thread to post this, but spoilers don't expand when clicking "show" anymore. Does anyone else have the same problem, or is it somehow only happening for me? This has already been pointed out and the mods are already working on it (or at least they said they were). We a...

DUTCH
- de boete 'a fine, fee'

FINNISH
- kotelo 'pupa, cocoon, case, cover'

Write the last word(s) you learned in a foreign language here!

For me:

NORWEGIAN (NN)
- førebudd 'prepared'

FINNISH
- tukea 'to support'
- tuki 'support'

ENGLISH
- beanie (I've always just used 'hat'...)

I think with some adjustments, it could look pretty good. What I think are the immediate issues are that the spoilers don't work, and it's blindingly bright. We need a dark theme that we can swap to from the user control panel. We're looking at the spoiler function—it should be back soon enough! As...

Enough. This thread is quite harmless, so I've let it be, but I will not accept you ignoring a request not to do something. The use of this thread as an alternative tumblr page ends here. For the rest of you, feel free to post pictures of your pets etc in the Conversation thread, or to make a new th...

Swedish has a similar thing to Italian - stressed syllables either have a long vowel or end with a geminate or consonant cluster. Unstressed syllables have short vowels and, as far as I know, no gemination - consonant clusters are possible though, although I think they're less common there. Correct...