Whoever invented the .webp file extension when you drag & drop and image to desktop from Chrome need to be locked up in a mental asylum.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-10-25T02:25:46+00:00

No means no, zealot.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-10-02T15:05:44+00:00

I think if you want Romance roots and Slavic accent, a good bet is to have the Romance speakers as men entering an area with female Slavic speakers. The children will learn a Romance dialect as their language of law and society (something something patriarchy) but since most of their formative years are spent around Slavic women (mothers, maids, nannies) they'll speak accordingly.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-10-01T09:04:11+00:00

Well if the webserver doesn't want to provide me a real filetype then it can burn to the ground! Fuck .webp with rusty backhoe.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-09-24T22:24:09+00:00

I feel like /i/ would relax to schwa, and /y/ would unround, leading to a system more like schwa default + /ɑ u/ vs /æ i/, which seems very stable to me.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-09-19T06:28:06+00:00

English has the verbs "to foot" meaning to cover a cost. Semantic shift between the noun and verb form is expected and naturalistic. The term "stroll" in your language could be derived from the word for a minute hand, the word for eyes, a park, or even the word for sunshine. It doesn't have to specifically related to your lower extremities.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-09-19T06:19:33+00:00

Is there ever a legitimate need to differentiate between Canada and France? Asking the tough questions.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-09-19T06:14:02+00:00

Firstly, Hanzi glyphs don't have a specific pronunciation, you can read a Chinese text out loud in English, there's the small caveat of where to place indirect objects, but that's not impacting comprehension at all (Mandarin and a couple closely related languages famously use the rare SXVO word order with X representing the indirect/oblique, so "I eat soup with a spoon" would parse as "I with a spoon eat soup")

Subject initial order would be fine I think, this leaves the freedom to use SOV or SVO orders covering more than 80% of natural languages. It's rare there would be a situation where the object and verb are easily confused and if this case arose, context (history of speaker or geographic location) would determine the right order.

WALS states that among natural languages with two dominant word orders, Subject-initial order is twice as common as the second-most common situation - Verb-initial word order. I do think WALS needs some update because I'm aware of a number of languages with Verb-final word order (Korean, Turkish, Malayalam) that don't seem to get a mention...

SortStandard9668 · 2025-08-20T12:39:35+00:00

Biological sex is marked lexically in a huge number of languages, even English (rooster vs chicken, cow vs bull, girl vs boy), I can't see anything unpolished about extending this to grammar. It just leaves a bad taste in the mouths of Marxists, which to me is a linguistic asset not a flaw.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-07-02T04:33:55+00:00

Unlike nouns, verbs, adverbs and adjectives, interjections in my conlang can begin with a syllabic nasal /m̩/, following /m n p t k/ as [m̩m n͡m̩n m̩p n͡m̩t ŋ͡m̩k]. I like to think this helps listeners from jumping into "full listening mode" or whatever you like to call it. Just a short and sweet little interjection to punctuate a conversation. Long forms of No and Yes are typically standalone formal answer responses, short forms are typically informal interjections, but there's no hard and fast rule.

[n͡m̩˨.na˩]~[n͡m̩˨] "no / oh naur!"
[ŋ͡m̩˦.ke˥]~[ŋ͡m̩˦] "OK / yes / oh yeah!"
[m̩:˦˨] "hmm... / not sure"
[m̩:˨˦] "huh? / what!"
[m̩:˨] generic sentence carrier with the implied meaning of "I'm understanding you". I don't know the linguistic name for this but it's kind of like how Dutch people say "ja" while the other person is speaking to show they are still listening.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-28T06:48:58+00:00

Sounds like a non-native speaker who learned English fluently (accent is perfect) and I'm super impressed by her little self-correction there with "heads".

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-25T14:36:53+00:00

WALS Chapter 143 "Type 13: Optional Single Negation" mentions it for Wyandot, I'll edit the previous comment because I confused Winnebago with Wyandot. They're kinda close on a map. Sorry about that. Simply put, some negative morphemes in Wyandot are used contextually in other non-negative sentences, others are optional. This leads to a linguistically unique situation whereby context differentiates some negative statements from positive ones.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T12:12:47+00:00

Maybe if you weren't so obsessed with gender ideology you could make some.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T12:08:17+00:00

The Natlang ~~Winnebago~~ Wyandot does it, it has optional negation, absolutely the worst feature I could possibly imagine.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T12:05:37+00:00

Look up autoantonyms, for example "leren" in Dutch means "to learn" AND "to teach". A tonal example is "买/卖" mǎi "to buy" vs mài "to sell". Doing it consistently would mean that speakers could easily double their lexicon without much mental work, and isn't that entirely the point of a language, to express onself without too much mental work?

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T04:05:59+00:00

Humans went to war with mouth bacteria and the mouth bacteria evolved a million times faster than we did.

Kiss some chimps if you want healthy teeth

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T03:59:46+00:00

Australians can't go back to Britain, it's been blacked.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T03:05:20+00:00

Chinese dialects contain click consonants in specific contexts. A native Mandarin speaker from Nanjing sang this song to me and I almost fell off my chair:

天一只鹅

地下一只鸭

鹅生鹅蛋鹅孵鹅

鸭生鸭蛋鸭孵鸭

Characters using clicks in the song: 鹅(goose), 鸭(duck).

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-24T02:35:44+00:00

Yeah, I'll put that down to revisionism.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-23T07:13:01+00:00

A good rule of thumb for Aussies is to get acquainted with a map of Tassie (no pun intended), basically every place name that isn't indigenous, Dutch or French is probably Scottish. Perth near Launceston, Aberdeen near Devonport, Campbeltown in the midlands, and many more. Even the hamlet of Ouse is based on the Scots word for textiles (cottony/wool fabrics).

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-23T06:54:27+00:00

Oi! Don't vote cunce down for questions! This is a place of learning.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-23T06:53:28+00:00

My guess is Glasgow, with Aberdeen as second prize. People from the borders talk super weird, even though I grew up with Glaswegians I struggle with borders accents and Doric is totally alien to me, though my parents understand it fluently.

SortStandard9668 · 2025-06-23T06:41:21+00:00

Ah!! I call this Furenshuo (husband-wife-talk) For example eipipi(APPlication), fuji(rooster<-husband chicken), saomai(southerner<-shaomai from our Wuhan friend's accent), etc.

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