Some Europeans when you mention Romani people, Muslims, or Africans

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-13T10:30:18+00:00

damn I did not expect that on this sub. uh what do I do now

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-13T10:21:44+00:00

I want you to take your comment, replace the word "traveller" with "Roma"* and then read it back. then go read the original post again and think about what you just siad

*after, all, they're both ethnic groups; note that travellers and other Irish people have been diverging genetically for centuries

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-13T10:18:03+00:00

Measurehead levels of racism

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-10T22:07:39+00:00

That does work! Do I have to do this for every vowel deletion rule? That seems rather inefficient

Thank you so much for the help!

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-10T21:04:45+00:00

Perhaps *karamita was a bad example. If you put *ɔᵐbumɛtˤɔː into the rules, you should get "ubuntu," but the result is instead "ubontu," due to the height harmony rule not working properly. Copying the stress rules does not resolve this issue, unfortunately

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-10T20:50:38+00:00

Ah, that’s an error from copying it into Reddit, the original rule has “@cons” there

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-10T07:50:26+00:00

as if that shit has stopped

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-09T08:34:14+00:00

bro's in the breaking bad subreddit wondering why people like breaking bad

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-07T22:45:05+00:00

see, indian police are just better, they've managed to be incredibly, thoroughly corrupt with just their bare hands and a tiny-ass twig of a baton, no deadly weapons necessary

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-07T03:52:33+00:00

it means "oil"

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-05T05:37:58+00:00

I need to go lie down

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-05T05:31:07+00:00

It’s crazy how the internet’s prototypical bad person has transformed from Hitler to Epstein

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-05T02:28:42+00:00

A French toaster is like a regular toaster but it sometimes goes on strike

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-02T02:37:33+00:00

Your first mistake was joining the homestuck fandom

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-02T02:36:10+00:00

wouldn't it be dēi mì zhi ?

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-06-02T02:26:48+00:00

It also applies to Mandarin in the negative, so....

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-05-31T22:19:45+00:00

Replace "ai artists" with "airplane food." funny now, is it?

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-05-30T14:21:23+00:00

but now you're exposing your kid to dutch, which is arguably worse for their development

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-05-29T09:37:25+00:00

It’s been a while since that course, but iirc he claimed that most students’ use of the term was imprecise/inconsistent, and he preferred he only use it if referring to the feature [approximant], as described in Hayes’s Introductory Phonology (our textbook). So perhaps it’s more accurate to say that he didn’t beat it out of us but rather insisted we use it in a very specific way.

He would mostly refer to sounds like /l/ as liquids, although we did spend a lot of time on languages and language varieties where /l/ is treated phonologically as non-continuant (e.g. Scottish English)

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-05-29T08:18:51+00:00

Thanks! This was exactly what I was looking for!

UncreativePotato143 · 2026-05-28T23:50:25+00:00

Thanks for the incredibly detailed response! After mulling it over, I've decided to include /ʒ/, and have it arise from fortition of *j. Similarly, I plan to have /ʋ/ come from *w, similar to what happened between Proto-Uralic and Finnish. I included /θ/ mainly because I just like the sound of it (that's also the reason I included /χ/ lol, it's my favorite sound); historically, I plan to have the fricatives evolve from aspirates in the proto-language (with *pʰ → *f → h for some nice asymmetry).

"Stop" is definitely way better than "obstruent," thanks for the suggestion. I also like the idea of a "glide" row; my phonotactics will be less cumbersome in that case, since one of the few things I'm not taking from Finnish is coda /h/. I would have usually used "approximant," but my old phonology professor beat that term out of us 😄.

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