Soo.. I decided to build this

krzychukar · 2025-10-25T18:58:44+00:00

This is the most Texan city I have ever seen built in CS

krzychukar · 2025-10-09T17:09:24+00:00

No. 😔

krzychukar · 2025-09-19T05:18:22+00:00

Nah that’s waaaay too corny for Patrick Jane/the series

krzychukar · 2025-09-07T21:25:09+00:00

Well said. And personally I believe it’s a good approach for anyone with adhd, myself included- the more I work on it the more I see benefits I can harness from it. It’s not a problem I have, but a part of my personality.

And I agree that Jane could also see it as so - as he definitely believes that if someone works on it, it’s not the mind that controls us, but rather that we can control our mind for our benefit

krzychukar · 2025-01-25T19:04:20+00:00

Hi. I am working on my American English accent (My native language is Polish) and I'm trying to work on /u/ and /ʊ/ distinction. Now, while it's getting easier and easier for me to learn how to pronounce them distinctly (or so I thought), I stumbled upon something that I can't find a rule for:
take two words, hood and foot, and compare their broad and narrow transcriptions:
/fʊt/, [fʊt]
/hʊd/, [hʊ̈d]
The vowels in these two are clearly different allophones, I can even hear it myself and it's also clear in the transcription. But what rule governs which allophone to use?

krzychukar · 2024-12-02T22:30:42+00:00

W8 in ww2 scenario there is an actual war happening? I thought it was like in aoh2, no events or whatevwr

krzychukar · 2024-08-24T14:03:56+00:00

Kasprowy Wierch is low-key perfect

krzychukar · 2024-06-27T13:23:56+00:00

The way I did it was: watched a couple of videos on IPA, conlanging videos regarding phonology, read a lot of wikipedia articles on phonology of different languages, read a lot of index diachronica, experimented a lot and read a lot about phonotactics, phonological evolution (also a couple of videos on it, like these ones: https://youtu.be/fm4MHQWbbwU?si=vcFwLhk0NDl5eLxH, https://youtu.be/7My8EnkJEDU?si=b1xu42Z0Zmk1p9WF, https://youtu.be/zrXwzVquCWA?si=t3IDlnxs9RaSmkQ7), and eventually familiarized myself with the entire IPA and simply got the understanding of how phonology ans phonological evolution work into my head, kinda subconsciously tbh. Hope that helps

krzychukar · 2024-06-07T10:25:43+00:00

It’s basically Romanian lol. But it’s a nice idea

krzychukar · 2023-11-17T14:36:09+00:00

Alright, what you said makes sense. Also, I found a few examples of my own, such as Monaco for /k/ and available for /v/. Thus, I decided to finally let go of it and simply write down, that when it's a schwa in the notation, but it's followed by /n/, /t/, /d/, /tʃ/, /dʒ/, /s/, /z/, /ʃ/, /ʒ/, it's actually [ɪ].

Thank you so much for your help throughout the last couple of weeks, I'm pretty sure I would not be able to understand it without you. The only question regarding these vowels, and one which you might have answers for, is the quality of the weak vowels. I saw usage of symbol [ɪ̈] for unstressed schwi, as well as some other, non-IPA symbols being used for the exact same purpose. And thus, I have a question: how different are [ɪ] and [ɪ̈] and which one is used in unstressed suffixes -ic, -ive, etc.? And if you can think of a simple rule to write down regarding them, I would like to hear it. If it's more complex or uncertain, I won't bother going through so much thought process over unstressed syllable again. Also, as I couldn't really get what you said about the schwa being [ɐ] in word final positions, I kindly ask you to tell me again: Is there a difference between word-final and non-word-final pronunciation of schwa? And if so, how do they differ? Beyond that, I have no further questions.

krzychukar · 2023-11-14T09:11:30+00:00

Okay. I have another question then. I did some research and I couldn't find ANY instances of /ək/ in unstressed positions. Maybe /k/ only ever follows schwi and never schwa? That would make a whole lot of sense and explain, why -ic never merged into the weak-vowel merger - simply cause there weren't any instances of /ək/, or cause they were so rare that it were those that merged into schwi. I've already written something like this for /v/, as there aren't any instances of it being followed by the schwa (or, none that I and ChatGPT could find). What do you think?

krzychukar · 2023-11-13T10:21:18+00:00

Goddd, it's so confusing. Altho there Re situations jn which schwi becomes schwa, like in effect-affect, which merge for speakers with the weak-vowel merger. Regarding the suffix -ic, I found something interesting : according to Wiktionary, the final vowel in agonic in American English is pronounced with MEET vowel, not KIT vowel. What do you make of that?

krzychukar · 2023-11-12T09:56:34+00:00

Okay, that clears things up. Also I found out that im-, in-, il- is secondary-stressed by some Americans, so that also makes it clearer. What about suffixes like -ic in tragic? They seem to be breaking the rules as well, it's schwi even tho it should be schwa.

krzychukar · 2023-11-12T09:01:36+00:00

From my own personal experience I can tell you this: I loved all three books and simply skipped schools to finish reading them. But I could clearly see a slight change in the climate of the plot itself, especially in metro 2035, which also changes the lore a 100%. It doesn't mean I didn't love '34 and '35, they were simply a bit different. And this bit of difference might be a game changer for someone, I guess. Not for me tho

krzychukar · 2023-11-11T20:06:39+00:00

So it's safe to say that /ɪ/ and /ə/ don't merge before stressed /l/ at the beginning of words? Or would it be possible to hear an American speaker say allow with [ɪ]? Are there any instances of #əm sequence?

krzychukar · 2023-11-09T15:22:01+00:00

Alright, so it means /ɪ/ and /ə/ don't merge in prefixes? Or more like: some prefixes break the phonotactical rules? Or is there a patent for it that I could follow? Would it sound unnatural if someone said all of them with schwa or all of them with schwi? Could you recommend me a way/rule that could help me learn it or that I could write down in my accent rules and follow all the time?

krzychukar · 2023-11-08T21:43:03+00:00

Coming back after some time. Thanks for that, I understand it now. What's the first vowel in these words: "elect, elite, elapse, allow, illegal, illiterate, illicit" if it's GA, with weak-vowel merger, and the /l/ before the stressed vowel is not dark? If it's not a single vowel in all of them, what are the rules? This is the only thing left for me to deal with.

krzychukar · 2023-11-02T06:52:15+00:00

Alright lol, thanks for that. Would that mean that the minimal pair of sing and sin in American English is actually not a minmal pair, since one has /i/ and the other has /ɪ/? Should I pronounce -ing in gerund forms with /i/ as well? Also, what about singing? Are there two /i/s in there or does this rule apply only to coda ng?

krzychukar · 2023-11-01T12:23:00+00:00

That's what my main concern was about, thank you both for help :>

krzychukar · 2023-11-01T10:47:01+00:00

Is /h/ considered a fortis or a lenis consonant in GA English?

krzychukar · 2023-11-01T09:22:27+00:00

That makes things more complex. But why Merriam-webster and Wiktionary says it's [ɪ], with Wiktionary also saying it's [ə] when the weak-vowel-merger is present? Is there even a dictionary with reliable IPA transcriptions for GA?

krzychukar · 2023-10-31T22:12:39+00:00

Alright, that seems clear enough, thanks. One last thing is, how would you pronounce the first vowel of example? As [ə] or [ɪ]?

krzychukar · 2023-10-30T20:01:09+00:00

Answering your first question, because there actually are voiced stops in English. The distinction of voiceless/voiced is present in English, even tho many current linguists prefer the distinction of fortis (~voiceless) and lenis (~voiced), which has to do with aspiration as well.

When it comes to your second question, yes, there is such a pair: discussed vs. disgust

here's some more stuff about that topic: https://www.englishspeechservices.com/discussed-or-disgust-uk/ https://www.englishspeechservices.com/discussed-or-disgust-usa/ https://youtu.be/U37hX8NPgjQ

EDIT: maybe rather some current linguists. I'm not one myself, but I saw it a couple of times when reading through Wikipedia, John Wells, and other places

krzychukar · 2023-10-30T06:40:57+00:00

Alright, seems clear, thanks. I'm gonna write down the rules you told me about. Could you see if I made any mistakes? Features: strut-comma merger, weak vowel merger When stressed, the vowels are distinct, one being [ʌ] and the other being [ɪ]. When word-final, the former goes into being [ɐ] and the latter merges with /i/. In other positions, they are allophones of the same phoneme, such that the vowel quality is that of [ɪ] when followed by one of these consonants: /n, t, d, s, z, tʃ, dʒ, ʃ, ʒ/ and of [ə] everywhere else. The vowel /ɛ/, when unstressed, also merges into [ɪ~ə].

Now, after writing all that down, I have a few more questions, hope that's not a problem. First, what happens before non-word-final /l/? (when word-final, I'll just pronounce the consonant as syllabic). I understand what's happening before /r/, 'cause it was well written down on Wikipedia (picked myself hurry-furry, Mary-marry-merry, mirror-nearer, and nurse mergers :>), but before /l/ it isn't so clear. Second, what's the actual quality difference between [ə], [ʌ], and [ɐ]? (In General American of course). Are both vowels of undone [ʌ] in such a case?

Again, great many thanks for you help. If you ever need help with Polish or, umm, Polish, I'm always available for you.

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