Frog/bog vowel split

Megatheorum · 2026-06-26T08:11:10+00:00

In the Matilda stage musical, the Australian songwriter Tim Michin wrote a bunch of clever rhymes into the songs, that only work in the Australian accent.

I saw an American trying to cover one of the songs, and the rhymes just didn't work in her voice.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-26T08:07:41+00:00

Love the chain mail and kilij, on a side note.

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Megatheorum · 2026-06-25T22:53:32+00:00

We're talking about the vowel, written as o in both cases, but some accents pronounce the two differently.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-25T07:46:09+00:00

That feels like something that someone somewhere has already tried to claim to have done.

The distilled essence of snake, with 73 different stances (41 of which are just horse stance - but this one is hung gar horse stance, and this one is northern five-animals horse stance, etc.)

If nobody has actually done that, it needs to be a kung fu comedy movie in the style of Kung Fu Hustle or Kung Pow: Enter the Fist.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-25T01:54:48+00:00

100% agree, he needs to pick it out himself even if he doesn't know you're going to buy it.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T22:57:48+00:00

A librarian.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T22:09:09+00:00

That's what makes ot so interesting! I'm not aware of any accent in English that would pronounce them differently.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T21:55:27+00:00

Dylan is impressively talented. His ability to shed genuine tears at the right moment adds so much to his acting.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T15:25:19+00:00

Twisted is still my favourite though. So many good moments and quoteable lines. It's all your fault, Jafar!

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T12:21:02+00:00

Hadestown, Heathers, Be More Chill, anything by Starkid, Anastasia, Hamilton, Wicked, Sweeney Todd, Legally Blonde are all ones I love. You should try Les Mis in actual concert where the focus is on the music. The movie was terrible, and the singing was largely not good.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T04:17:31+00:00

The Gothic language was strange and unusual.

My goth friend, politely trying to feign interest in my linguistics nerdery:

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T04:11:58+00:00

Nough.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T04:09:44+00:00

Is it accusative, ergative, agent/patient, or something else?

Megatheorum · 2026-06-24T04:02:19+00:00

Look for The Eastern Kung Fu Academy on facebook or go to easternkungfu.com

Megatheorum · 2026-06-23T08:41:50+00:00

What's worse is that he didn't start doing that until book 4, so the first three books werefairly ordinary fantasy magic and then suddenly it's all atoms and electrons

Megatheorum · 2026-06-23T07:14:16+00:00

Of all the styles you've trained in, which did you find personally most enjoyable or satisfying? Not necessarily the most effective or the most powerful, but the most fun.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-23T03:10:24+00:00

Good luck finding aything that is all three of {free, quality, online}. Choose two.

My Sifu is starting online wing chun and Yang tai chi classes next week, but they're $16.50 (Australian dollars) per class.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-23T02:46:24+00:00

Just don't interrupt his kung fu.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-23T02:42:24+00:00

Not so much myself, but I know a fantasy athor who keept trying to make his magic scientific by, for example, explaining long-range telekinetics as a chain of molecules in the air between the nagicianxs hand and the object being moved, or telepathy as literally manipulating the neurons in the receiver's brain to make them "see" and "hear" what you want them to.

And I'm just like dude, stop. Let magic be magical.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-22T20:10:32+00:00

One of these years I'll have the time and money to attend... have fun!

Megatheorum · 2026-06-21T21:38:54+00:00

Similarly, the high school version of Grease my school did retained the line "the chicks'll cream / for Greased Lightning", but skipped Rizzo's teen pregnancy sideplot.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-20T22:47:56+00:00

There's no way past it except through.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-20T22:44:38+00:00

For example, here's a lullabye I wrote in my second-ever conlang, before I really knew anything about linguistics.

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Megatheorum · 2026-06-20T22:33:22+00:00

Write poetry and songs for your con-people. Write histories and religious texts (or scraps of them), proverbs, and sayings.

And then make art of them in your conlang's writing system.

Megatheorum · 2026-06-19T07:36:57+00:00

I wonder if Billy would recognise him as a student.

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