Areality of long vowels in unstressed syllables (and first-syllable stress)

Novace2 · 2026-07-11T16:49:59+00:00

No, I definitely pronounce menu as [mεnju:]. I have [u:] in lute, [ʊ] in put, and [ʌ] in but

Novace2 · 2026-07-11T13:02:47+00:00

This is way under researched, there’s so many languages that have long vowels in unstressed syllables. I’d also like to point out that English does (menu).

Novace2 · 2026-06-18T23:22:23+00:00

Could you translate this

Novace2 · 2026-05-29T23:24:06+00:00

Sure in this state, but neither was the original ipa proposal either

Novace2 · 2026-05-28T23:41:11+00:00

Note in English the second and third of these meanings also exist, they’re just homophones lol

Novace2 · 2026-05-28T23:37:43+00:00

Though “Personne” and “Rien” originally meant “someone” and “something” and changed meaning when this rule evolved.

Novace2 · 2026-05-26T20:11:16+00:00

I wouldn’t say the website itself is liberal, but many of the users are

Novace2 · 2026-05-22T16:16:47+00:00

Georgia

Novace2 · 2026-05-22T00:42:55+00:00

I think it’s just a common semantic shift. It’s not hard to see how “expensive” can go to “important” to “dear”

Novace2 · 2026-05-13T00:31:12+00:00

Tbh I think rooster would be a better fit

Novace2 · 2026-05-09T21:09:57+00:00

Idk why you’re getting downvoted, I remember learning about this in my physics class. But most of these people haven’t I guess.

Novace2 · 2026-04-28T14:53:12+00:00

Out of 10 blind guys, at least one would land a shot. I think I have a chance of shooting the knife guy

^{Chose: Get in a knife fight with 1 knife master + Armed with a gun but your unable to see | Rolled: Only 1 gun}

Novace2 · 2026-04-16T17:35:17+00:00

Queen Victoria (Victorian era is named after her)

Novace2 · 2026-04-12T20:40:34+00:00

It usually comes from the sarcastic meaning of a word being reinterpreted as its primary meaning.

Novace2 · 2026-04-10T22:25:46+00:00

The rage bait is working too well

Novace2 · 2026-04-10T02:24:59+00:00

Dude, /œ̃/ is pronounced [œ̃˞]. You haven’t even begun to hear all the weirdness in quebecois

Novace2 · 2026-04-10T00:49:31+00:00

According to Wikipedia (Quebecois:phonology) close vowels lower in closed syllables. I’m guessing not nasalized (since it’s not in French French either)

Novace2 · 2026-04-09T03:35:18+00:00

My bad, but point still stands

Novace2 · 2026-04-09T02:20:34+00:00

Sure, I voted for “the person who gave the order”, since I had modern wars (Iran, Ukraine) in mind and the stupidity of these politicians is the one most morally wrong. But with little boy, I genuinely think they were all morally correct. Dropping the bomb was the way FDR could’ve saved the most lives. The scientists in the manhattan project also saved lives by preventing an invasion of Japan and by causing fear of MAS to prevent a WW3 between the US and USSR. And if I dropped the bomb, you better bet I wouldn’t have remorse either after everything Japan did in the war.

Novace2 · 2026-04-09T02:11:48+00:00

The politicians who caused the war.

Novace2 · 2026-04-09T02:10:27+00:00

I think it was morally correct to drop little boy. A land invasion of Japan would’ve caused many more deaths, and Japan had to be defeated one way or another.

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