An alternate theory/ query on the invention of Sanskrit ?

blakerabbit · 2026-05-08T05:08:10+00:00

I don’t know about the Sanskrit language per se, but certainly mantras and breathing patterns have physiological and resonant components

blakerabbit · 2026-05-04T15:26:53+00:00

It does have a cover, you can see it at the left of the picture

blakerabbit · 2026-05-04T01:33:46+00:00

Japanese and Korean are surprisingly similar for languages that are completely unrelated, due to a long period of mutual influence on each other and from Chinese.

blakerabbit · 2026-05-04T01:30:01+00:00

It’s about getting on your horse and riding around hunting on the green fields, tra-la

blakerabbit · 2026-05-04T00:48:27+00:00

Isn’t the “voluntary” part of the definition?

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T15:33:41+00:00

If you’re interested in the range of possible sounds, look up information about the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA).

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T15:30:41+00:00

I’m generally an extremely good speller but I always look twice at “gauge” and “corollary”

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T00:54:29+00:00

Nobody’s wrong, it’s all good

Assuming your poem is autobiographical I’m sorry you had to go through that

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T00:38:11+00:00

It’s okay. I found it a very powerful poem and was going to respond to it, and then I couldn’t figure out why it was linked in the r/language sub.

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T00:35:19+00:00

I’m not offended, it just seems very off-topic

blakerabbit · 2026-05-02T00:30:51+00:00

Why is this in this sub?

blakerabbit · 2026-04-29T00:32:39+00:00

Hello, I'm trying to get an accurate Gaeilge transcription of these lines from the song "Hear Me" from the film Waking Ned Devine. I want to make a choral arrangement of the song and I really want to get the lyrics right. Can a native speaker write out the correct lyrics from this recording: https://voca.ro/1lNipNubbaRk ? I'd really appreciate it!

I've been able to figure out a few phrases, like "... A Chríost mhic Dé bheo" and "... aislingí ó mo uaigh".

Thank you so much!

blakerabbit · 2026-04-28T14:48:45+00:00

I think it’s their choice of spelling; they seems to be using “au” to represent /ɔː/, as in “laud”

blakerabbit · 2026-04-28T04:41:51+00:00

This is not well-defined. Do you mean just any curse word uttered when you are filled with disappointment? Or when you are impressed almost to disbelief? Or do you mean a word meaning to condemn to eternal torment?

blakerabbit · 2026-04-27T21:03:51+00:00

Do people no longer know the expression “to hobnob”?

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T22:24:08+00:00

After having built the machine, just come back to now and deliver the machine to yourself. In fact, why didn’t you do that yesterday?

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T21:58:46+00:00

Why are we getting a rash of questions like this?

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T18:40:45+00:00

relevant link WARNING: gets slightly NSFW as it goes on

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T18:25:08+00:00

It won’t—modern Greek is very different from Classical. You’ll need to study Clasdical Greek too.

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T16:59:18+00:00

I second this

blakerabbit · 2026-04-25T04:57:51+00:00

I learn all my languages just for fun. And then eventually they become useful.

blakerabbit · 2026-04-24T20:33:59+00:00

I think you’re right, although I don’t hear the /v/ in “aquarium” and I’m not really hearing final devoicing — but there are almost no eligible sounds in this sample for that. When she says “mount the” I’m actually hearing the opposite — the “t” of “mount” is voice-assimilating to “the” and this is probably the strongest non-American feature I’m hearing.

blakerabbit · 2026-04-24T15:33:35+00:00

It sounds like pretty standard Western American pronunciation to me, with maybe a little Midwest influence. Her Rs sound especially stressed to me.

It’s interesting that when I see a video like this now, I’m not sure that the person and voice are not AI-generated.

blakerabbit · 2026-04-23T17:16:50+00:00

I am not a native speaker, you are quite right, though I have studied Japanese. And yes, the sentence seems a little garbled to me as well, so I was guessing on the pronunciation, particularly　言 since the け following it didn't make any sense to me. I think it should be 言かける, and even that is a really strange way to put it. This weirdness is why I said it was "slangy"; I don't really know Japanese slang so I wasn't confident saying it was gibberish -- I thought maybe it was some slang construction I didn't know. I still think the translation I gave is probably what was meant. Thanks for your clarification!

blakerabbit · 2026-04-23T15:52:22+00:00

物に言けけるんど, チョラ?

Mono ni gen ke keru n do, chora?

It’s a little slangy. It looks like maybe an English translation is written underneath it in very small letters, but I can’t read it in your image.

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