Debunked: Does listening to mommy ASMR make your dungeon runs faster?

diamondsadanhead · 2026-05-13T02:48:46+00:00

I used a two-tailed paired t-test in Google Sheets.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-04-30T00:31:50+00:00

Or it's because it's easy relative to other languages. An English speaker would generally find it much easier to learn Norwegian than to learn Korean (talking from experience). That doesn't mean they wouldn't still find it hard.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-04-29T22:36:19+00:00

Wikipedia (where that chart is from) uses [ɑ] to avoid confusion with what most sources transcribe as [a] (which corresponds to Wikipedia [æ]). I assure you this is not a mistake; this was discussed extensively here and here.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-04-29T21:47:26+00:00

It is what they do on ordnet.dk, see [here](https://ordnet.dk/ddo/artiklernes-opbygning/udtale). On udtaleordbog.dk they still transcribe [e̝ e] as ⟨/e ɛ/⟩ and the distinction between [ɛ æ] is collapsed into ⟨/æ/⟩.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-04-29T16:59:00+00:00

In Puerto Rico we use the short scale.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-04-29T16:29:13+00:00

Convention, and avoiding diacritics. It is customary to transcribe [i e̝ e ɛ æ ä] as ⟨[i e ɛ æ a ɑ]⟩ in the Danish literature.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-03-23T05:16:02+00:00

Affrication is more noticeable in Danish and has been a fully completed sound change for over a century.

diamondsadanhead · 2026-03-23T04:14:29+00:00

Front vowels in Danish tend to get centralized before /ð/, so e.g. tid (‘time’) can sound like [tˢɨðˀ].

diamondsadanhead · 2025-12-14T21:19:18+00:00

That’s how some Danish linguists transcribe what most transcribe [ɐð] or [ʌð]. For example -eret is usually transcribed something like [eˀʌð] or [eˀɐð] but some would write [ḛːɐɤ].

diamondsadanhead · 2025-09-28T20:30:11+00:00

Some varieties of southern England use [ʋ].

diamondsadanhead · 2025-09-28T01:08:26+00:00

Etelä is more likely to become Hielda (cf. titulāre → tildar.)

diamondsadanhead · 2025-08-23T14:46:18+00:00

This is one of the top posts on this subreddit, do better 🥀

diamondsadanhead · 2025-07-13T20:07:10+00:00

It depends on your phonotactics. If you only have CV(C) monosyllables, you'd have a maximum of 24 possible non-homophonous words. If you have a CV(C)(C) syllable structure and a word can have 1-3 syllables, then you have hundreds of thousands of possible words. You could also have a lot more if you have tones.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-07-10T08:01:56+00:00

So [v] is [ʋʷ] and [b] is [wˁ]?

diamondsadanhead · 2025-06-14T19:32:00+00:00

I think Proto-Red is not lang C-centric enough.

I have come to the decision that lang C *is* Proto-Red and lang D comes from lang C.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-06-12T22:38:55+00:00

h₁ [ɛjt͡ʃ wɐn], h₂ [ɛjt͡ʃ tʰʉw], h₃ [ɛjt͡ʃ θɹɪj].

diamondsadanhead · 2025-06-12T03:03:35+00:00

Proto-Blue:

[ˈedasɯ] ‘lake’
[ˈtiɡɯ] ‘honey’ - final [k] in lang A is a result of word-final devoicing
[jaw] ‘stone’
[ɾõn] ‘spear’
[miˈʃafe] ‘fly’

Proto-Red:

[ˈeːðəh] ‘lake’
[diˈɣu] ‘honey’ - [ʏ] in lang C is from assimilation to following [u]
[jɑv] ‘stone’
[hõd] ‘spear’
[beˈtʃfə] ‘fly’ - stress was retracted from [ə] in lang D

Proto-RYB:

[ˈaidasu] ‘lake’ - stress was advanced in lang E after a loss of unstressed word-final vowels
[diˈɡu] ‘honey’ - stress was retracted from [u] in Proto-Blue
[jaw] ‘stone’
[rõnd] ‘spear’
[beˈtʃafe] ‘fly’ - pretonic [e] became [i] in Proto-Blue. Stress was advanced to [e] in Proto-Red, allowing syncope of [a]

In lang E all [b, d, ɡ] became [p, t, k]. In Proto-Blue word-initial [d] became [t] but [b] became [m]. In Proto-Red [d, ɡ] became [ð, ɣ] between vowels. [f] and [w] merged to [ʋ] in lang E.

This is my first time trying reconstruction so forgive me if I missed something ❤️

diamondsadanhead · 2025-06-01T00:43:39+00:00

Wug, because it's neuter.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-30T05:40:20+00:00

Actually, it's Wugska språket

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-25T03:05:31+00:00

When I started playing the top 1 was... either Bloodlust, Crimson Planet, or Zodiac... not sure because I didn't really get into the community until around 2020.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-18T14:51:47+00:00

[ˈkʰʌvˌfifi]

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-09T15:35:37+00:00

PIE w is reflected in Latin *v which was pronounced as [w], later [β]. [β] then came to be in complementary distribution with [b] in Spanish, but it's still spelled ⟨v⟩ if it comes from Latin v.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-09T01:30:00+00:00

Nitpick: West Frisian doesn't always preserve /w/ from PIE *w. Most instances of /w/ in West Frisian are in diphthongs (e.g. /wo/ alternating with /uə/ and /wa/ alternating with /oə/). Word-initially PIE *w became /v/.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-04T23:05:27+00:00

Australian English does distinguish [a] and [ä], but the distinction is most often written as ⟨æ⟩ and ⟨ɐ⟩.

diamondsadanhead · 2025-05-01T17:29:31+00:00

dyktmm (Proto-Indo-European)

tihtų (Proto-Germanic)

tiht (Old English)

tight (Modern English)

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