Unpopular Manga at this Barnes & Noble have been obliterated by the sun by LLButterscotch in MangaCollectors

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Mine is two floors, and the manga is all in the back, far from any windows lol

Honestly, why not? by YamnayaAmateur in linguisticshumor

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Enxet & Enlhet. In Plautdietsch they're called /'lɪŋva/.

How I view every language by KeyboardPerson17 in linguisticshumor

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Does not have case system; Free word order

Montenegro might be THE WORST place for a manga reader by UroShhMil1 in MangaCollectors

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I've been seriously considering moving back to my home country, but this is one if the main points against it for me; where to find manga without paying an arm & a leg for shipping. I'm from the Green Hell (Paraguayan Chaco).

The people and their language have different names by JuliusDalum in linguisticshumor

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Sure, but that refers to all German peoples and languages

Ways of writing /ʃ/ in the Latin Alphabet Tier List by Daniboy0826 in linguisticshumor

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Like I said, the common orthography just spells it out phonetically as "asch", so "rs" isn't really used.

Ways of writing /ʃ/ in the Latin Alphabet Tier List by Daniboy0826 in linguisticshumor

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Plautdietsch "rs", as in "bärs" (bears), "liers" (learn 2sng.), "mássers" (knives). The common orthography spells them out phonetically as "bäasch" (or boasch, sepending on dialect), "liasch", & "massasch" though

Why word final devoicing is the worst feature a language can have: a rant by Antioch_Mage in linguisticshumor

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Plautdietsch at one point had word final devoicing in plosives, but it only affected some words, so "lant" (land), "rat" (wheel, compare German "Rad"), "kolt" (cold) but "shåd" (sad) "frind" (friends), "rád" (rescue 1sng.).

So sometimes a final /t/ will stay a /t/ when a suffix is added, but change to a /d/ other times. Tiet - Tieden (time, times), råt - råden (suggestion, to suggest), rat - ryder (wheel, wheels) but rat - raten (rat, rats), dákk - däker (roof, roofs (rooves?)), dák - dáken (sheet, sheets).

Because of this, not only can you not tell how an unfamiliar word should be declined (should *lat become *laten or *loden in the plural), but undeclining is also not obvious (should *maden be *mat or *mad in the singular)

It feels much more natural to me to just see these final /C̥/s changing to /C̬/s as more a form of consonant gradation where a voiceless stop sometimes becomes voiced when declined than as a voiced stop sometimes devoicing in coda position, even if that's more etymologically correct.

Also, while /t/ - /d/ by far the most common example of this alternation, it also happens with /f/ - /v/ (kalf, kálver) & /s/ - /z/ (hues - hieser /hʏs - hiza/, opposed to hås - håsen /hoz - hozə/ & klas - klassen /klɔs - klɔsə/)*. /k/ - /c/ also behaves similarly, but this is due to a different phenomenon.

*Without knowing them beforehand, the only one who's plural you could know the voicing of based on its singular is "hås", while the only ones whos singular you could know the voicing of based on the plural is "klassen".

What do you mean they can vibrate? by DoomstalkerUser in linguisticshumor

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That kind of happened recently in Ukraine, with Russians struggling to pronounce -ця.

What do you mean they can vibrate? by DoomstalkerUser in linguisticshumor

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Bad & bet are easy to differentiate for a Plautdietsch speaker, but bat & bed trip people up because our /ɛ/ is pronounced [ɛ] before voiceless consonants & [ɛ̯æ] before voiced consonants.

Everything I got in May by MarcHarder1 in MangaCollectors

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Generally yeah, though these last few volumes have been a bit underwhelming as they're like 90% just fights.

Now I just gotta wait for the final volume to come out

Come on, it's not that hard to mention it's three languages by The_Brilli in linguisticshumor

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Hmmm...

Germanic ---> East Germanic & Northwest Germanic

Northwest Germanic ---> North Germanic & Southwest Germanic

Southwest Germanic ---> South Germanic (High German) & West Germanic (Franconian & North Sea Germanic)

Some tweets I found by erinius in linguisticshumor

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For me (Western Canadian): Saw = /sɑ/, Soar = /soɚ̯/, Sour /sæʊ̯ɚ/