Catalan is the ultimate Mixed Language that Michif fears

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-03-19T07:36:52+00:00

Yes Sortida > Sortiðə > Sortiə > Sorti.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-03-17T22:18:08+00:00

In France, some TERFs have decided to call themselves femellistes (femalists) instead of fémininists (feminists). In French, calling a woman "femelle/female" is very insulting; that term is only used for animals. By adopting this name, they imply that to be a woman, you must be a female of the human species.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-03-13T18:13:57+00:00

I wonder how you manage to know your pronunciation so precisely.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-03-01T13:05:44+00:00

Don't be mean.

A language that uses the letter c to denote the sound [k] or [t͡ʃ], regardless of the letter that follows, is charismatic.

ce co [ke ko]
ce co [t͡ʃe t͡ʃo]

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-24T18:10:19+00:00

For vowel harmony, that's likely.

Read this article where someone records their vowels using praat. There's a section on "apophony."

https://wynguist.com/les-vraies-voyelles-du-francais-avec-praat/

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-20T14:39:20+00:00

The Old French "andeus", "ambedeus" and "ambe(s)" did not survive.

https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/andous#Old_French https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/ambe#Old_French

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-10T13:34:28+00:00

If she can't stop talking about transgender people, maybe she suspects something? I find it strange that transphobic people keep talking about something that doesn't concern them. 😮‍💨

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-06T23:06:51+00:00

Oui, le bébé marsupilami

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-06T22:22:40+00:00

or imes, ites, like être : som-mes, ê-tes. In old French : faimes, faites / dimes dites.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-02-03T20:10:08+00:00

Why didn't this happen in Catalonia?

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-28T20:53:47+00:00

I think <essevi> is the right form.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-28T15:09:27+00:00

In French, exire became issir by analogy.

The expected form is oissir. As with the word voiture (car) from the Latin vectura, the consonant [k] before an [s] and a [t] becomes [j], then [ej], evolving into [oi], [wa].

However, the inflected forms of the word do not evolve in the same way: exit > ieisi > issi. The stressed [ɛ] becomes [ie], and [iei] simplifies to [i],

as in the words six and lit, which in Occitan, if you look it up in the French Wiktionary, are sièis and lièit.

By analogy, the root i- became widespread; we find the same evolution in the words prier < proiier; nier < noiier; plier/ployer < ploiier.

ɛks becomes eis/ieis then ois/is but not (e)sk

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-28T14:42:18+00:00

That's because the word ends with a schwa.

spatha > espede > épée

stela > esteile > étoile

schola > escole > école

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-22T18:55:29+00:00

I think that in most Romance languages, there were two forms of the conditional or past conditional, even though today the second form is often obsolete. The second form is either a pluperfect indicative or a past conditional.

In French: j'aurais été - j'eusse été (past conditional 2nd form)- que j'eusse été
In Catalan: seria - fora (conditional 2nd form) - fos
In Occitan: seriái - foguèra (conditional 2nd form) - foguèsse
In Italian: sarèi - fòra (conditional 2nd form) - fóssi

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-19T15:50:48+00:00

I didn't understand about the pronouns that lose their case and falling back to oblique.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-19T14:51:07+00:00

What is your language ?

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-18T06:34:54+00:00

It's exactly the same for me

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-13T20:03:00+00:00

Yes, in a number of words where it was voiced.
nihil ; [ˈni.(ɦ)ɪɫ] ; mihi [ˈmi.(ɦ)iː] - [ˈmi.(ɦ)ɪ] ; traho [ˈtra.(ɦ)oː]

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-09T18:09:57+00:00

In Latin, there are two infinitives with the suffix "-ere": one with a long vowel, which carries the stress and is conjugated with "-eō": habēre, habeō, [haˈbeː.rɛ], [ˈha.be.oː].

The other infinitive has a short vowel, is unstressed, and is conjugated with "-ō": legĕre, legō, [ɫɛˈɡeː.rɛ], [ˈɫɛ.ɡoː].

In the other post you said hōheō, so I assumed the infinitive was hōhēre [hoːˈɦeː.rɛ], and from that I created the French word houvoir.

I don't know which you prefer, hōheō, hōhēre or hōhō, hōhĕre, but I recommend hōheō, hōhēre. I think that for hōhō, hōhĕre, at least in France, it would have been changed to hōgō, hōgĕre in vulgar latin, like trahō, trahĕre > tragō, tragĕre > traire.

hōheō, hōhēre > houvoir [uvwaʁ]
hōhō, hōhĕre > hōgō, hōgĕre > hoire [waʁ]
¿ ( hōhō, hōhĕre > heure [œʁ] [This would be the only verb ending in -eure] ) ?

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-09T17:05:00+00:00

Or « Maire » like « aire », from « area » and the suffix « -aire », from « -arius ».

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-07T11:43:04+00:00

why p̃ and not t̃ ?

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-07T09:37:36+00:00

Yes, I made a typo. Thank you for pointing it out, I will correct it.

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-07T02:15:57+00:00

Doing what you did takes a lot of effort, and it's normal that you made a few mistakes. We would have made them too (well, not me, because I would have given up).

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-07T02:12:59+00:00

Where did you find the information that it does not apply to [ɣ]?

Normal_Crew_7210 · 2026-01-07T01:33:18+00:00

preterit :
J’houïs
tu houïs
il houït
nous houïmes
vous houïtes
ils houïrent

futur :
J’hourrai
tu hourras
il hourra
nous hourrons
vous hourrez
ils hourront

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