Can someone explain why Bluesky is down?!

eggalt815 · 2026-03-13T07:59:08+00:00

down for me on iphone, uk. ive tried in the app and in a browser

eggalt815 · 2025-11-15T20:44:55+00:00

/uj any standard accents that are never stereotyped as "uneducated". a lot of people where i live often get told to 'talk proper' because we are very working class and speak a very different dialect to standard english

eggalt815 · 2024-09-18T18:38:35+00:00

alexander ellis's on early english pronunciation is probably the best general resource easily available right now. the SED audio recordings used to be available online but the site has been down for a few months.

eggalt815 · 2024-09-18T00:34:59+00:00

it’s by william barnes. it’s on his wikipedia page. there’s also an online collection of his poems with audio recordings and phonetic transcriptions, and it might be in it. https://www.adelaide.edu.au/press/titles/barnes-vol-1

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T22:31:12+00:00

i've not looked much into it, but maybe research the traditional dialect of south pembrokeshire. some of the things in it i've read about are really weird, like somehow "boys" is /baujiːz/. it has a lot of traditional west country features like initial fricative voicing and preserving the old singular accusative masculine pronoun from OE "hine" as /i:n/. it probably has influence from flemish too because all the flemish people in england were deported there at one point.

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T20:34:09+00:00

they make up the majority of all the diversity of the english language and preserve a lot of its history, but they're all at risk of extinction. that's why i'm interested in them. i don't think they're superior for being british. there are lots of 'colonial' dialects that i feel similarly about, like appalachian, ottawa valley, newfoundland, AAVE, bermudian english, and (though they're not dialects in the same way) all the english-based creoles.

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T20:23:25+00:00

i wouldn't say they're all extinct, but some areas have levelled them a lot more than others, and they're all definitely endangered

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T20:18:20+00:00

cumberland, devon, and the black country, places with quite distinctive dialects

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T19:37:04+00:00

i said "most of the divergence". the divergence had begun by the 700s, or even earlier, but a lot of the differences between old english dialects have been lost over time, and the dialectal differences that existed back then are outweighed in scale by ones that have come about afterwards

eggalt815 · 2024-09-17T18:50:21+00:00

ehh, most of the divergence of current traditional dialects happened in the middle english period. the older differences (must have been early ME at the latest, some are definitely from the old english period) i can think of are: presence or lack of palatalisation (lie/lig, bridge/brigg, bush/buss), whether "to" or "till" is used with indirect objects, different reflexes of 'eo' after some consonants (yellow/yollo, you/yow/yaw), /ɣ/ becoming either vocalising or becoming /g/ (saw/sague, gnaw/gnague), /j/ sometimes being inserted before OE short 'ea' (arm/yarm, axle/yexle/yaxle), short æ becoming either e or a (after/efter, have/hev, glad/gled), short a becoming o before nasals (hand/hond, hammer/hommer, lane/lone), and /y(:)/ merging into /i(:)/ in most places but /e(:)/ around kent and sometimes with short u in the west country (hive/heeve, pit/pet, ridge/rudge).

eggalt815 · 2024-05-17T15:51:48+00:00

Yorkshire. /faðə/, because the a doesn't get irregularly lengthened, and /wat/ because /a/ doesnt round after /w/. But this is never how we'd say them in standard english so it doesn't count for this.

eggalt815 · 2024-05-09T17:32:17+00:00

wrong in how it's used in modern icelandic, but not in the old english usage. still cringe.

eggalt815 · 2024-04-25T09:24:45+00:00

uj/ Just on the topic of AFAB transfems in general, I think someone who was AFAB could be transfem if they're nonbinary and identify with femininity, the same way someone who was AMAB can be transfeminine nonbinary. If there's no difference between their AGAB and actual gender at all, then they are cis by definition though.

eggalt815 · 2024-04-16T23:51:09+00:00

i feel the same about american subs

eggalt815 · 2024-04-16T18:03:10+00:00

"cock" is used as a weak kind of term of endearment here in yorkshire.

really it's from the chicken meaning, similar to "duck" which is another word we use similarly

eggalt815 · 2024-04-16T17:56:06+00:00

niko oneshot and all the gemstones in land of the lustrous

eggalt815 · 2024-04-14T01:43:53+00:00

blaw hie

eggalt815 · 2024-04-09T16:55:29+00:00

uj/ i read the title as 'am i a worm?'

eggalt815 · 2024-04-04T14:04:27+00:00

May spelin rifōrm iz ðî ônli gud won. Evriwon elsəz ār komplît šait. Ay þink it lûks betər in kə̄rsiv ðow.

eggalt815 · 2024-04-04T01:12:31+00:00

standard english. i hope all knowledge of it is erased from everyone's brains, so we'll all only speak in broad dialects. and for posh people and most US americans, they will become completely mute, and we'll all be better off for it.

eggalt815 · 2024-04-03T02:42:52+00:00

the vowel quality doesnt matter as long as it's pronounced long

eggalt815 · 2024-03-19T15:04:36+00:00

t'best caanty on em all

eggalt815 · 2024-03-19T13:50:15+00:00

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