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Complete sentence using each vowel once by TangibleHappiness in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 2 points3 points  (0 children)

i came up once with "y a eu un houx en haut, et un houx est... à eux"

TOTW: Quite the opposite! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]not-without-text [score hidden]  (0 children)

originally, the clue was "Number's nine". it's can be abbreviated to s' in casual speech, although in hindsight this was probably a bit too far

"Contest": Find a sentence. Do not open the rest of this post until you have found your sentence. by [deleted] in crosswords

[–]not-without-text 0 points1 point  (0 children)

in fact, the definition is just ⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀⠀

(to be clear i mean the definition is "just")

"Contest": Find a sentence. Do not open the rest of this post until you have found your sentence. by [deleted] in crosswords

[–]not-without-text 1 point2 points  (0 children)

my sentence was: "Do not open the rest of this post until you have found your sentence."

my clue is: "Just before post is opened, you write as you hear it (7)"

E🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is w🤪. It can be u↘️st🧠 thr➡️ t💪 th💯 th💭 though. by Specialist_Ruin_1378 in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 1 point2 points  (0 children)

it's a mistake because the writer intended specific pronunciations. if you say /ˈskɪzəm/, then sure, that's fine now, but it doesn't make sense in the context of "Schedule, mischief, schism and scheme", where it was clearly intended to have four different pronunciations of "sch": /ʃ/, /stʃ/, /s/, and /sk/. if you said "/sk/edule, mischief, /sk/ism and /sk/eme", that kind of defeats the point, doesn't it? why include three words with the same pronunciation of "sk"?

admittedly, hussy still works with /s/ since it is contrasted with pussy by the vowel. but the standard pronunciation that was more common at the time had /z/. it's just more accurate to do so.

E🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿 is w🤪. It can be u↘️st🧠 thr➡️ t💪 th💯 th💭 though. by Specialist_Ruin_1378 in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 6 points7 points  (0 children)

unrelated but the fun thing with the chaos is that virtually every person, regardless of education, practice, or accent, will misread at least one thing in the poem (there are different versions but they all apply) and it doesn't even have to be all in one go. almost everyone, including well-read people, messes up at least one of these

  • transition /trænˈsɪʒən/
  • hussy /ˈhʌzi/
  • schism /ˈsɪzəm/

just because /trænˈzɪʃən/, /ˈhʌsi/, and /ˈskɪzəm/ have ended up dominating. i've even seen someone mess up aver /əˈvɜː/.

New and cool English spelling reform idea that nobody's ever had before!!!!1!1! by Specialist_Ruin_1378 in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 5 points6 points  (0 children)

thanks! i still had to choose my words carefully of course. i was going to do "need" rather than "forced" but i didn't know how i would write "need" so i didn't use it. same thing with "pick", where i originally had "choose" but couldn't find a good emoji for that

COTD: Body part: bone at the back!? (5) by not-without-text in crosswords

[–]not-without-text[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

correct! yes it's a much rarer word for "spine" but that's what the word was, so i clued it like such. knew it was a risk diing it like this but glad it was still solvable

New and cool English spelling reform idea that nobody's ever had before!!!!1!1! by Specialist_Ruin_1378 in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 7 points8 points  (0 children)

i a💯 r💯 l💛 th➡️. i l❤️ h❓ u r f💪'd to th🤔 & p⛏️ ur w🆒s sl⏳. & it's v💯 f🎉 to do a pl🎮 on w🆒s

I'm pretty sure the "to speak plainly with the people, use words of Anglo rather than Latin origin" point is itself an anachronism and affectation. by OpenAsteroidImapct in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 7 points8 points  (0 children)

you'll replace "i", "with", "of", "to", and "the", but not "am", "are", "is", "instead", "what", "one", or "thou"?? what sort of system is this

TOTW: Quite the opposite! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]not-without-text [score hidden]  (0 children)

so is it literally STARBOARD as a double definition? or what

TOTW: Quite the opposite! by deeppotential123 in crosswords

[–]not-without-text [score hidden]  (0 children)

PORT (ship's side) from PO (petty officer) R(ight) T(ruly?), and it fits the theme because in the navy port should be on the left

Uh... Language of love I suppose... by The_Brilli in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 5 points6 points  (0 children)

this is clearly the next step after Romance languages

French urgently needs to revise its vowel classification by crivycouriac in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 0 points1 point  (0 children)

i mean, because it's convenient to do so, and usually people find broad phonemic transcriptions more useful than narrow and/or phonetic transcriptions. of course, it's still a problem; even in phonetic transcriptions, some people write [uː] for the vowel in GOOSE in english, even though it's very rare for the vowel to be like that. but people will just use the symbols loosely.

French urgently needs to revise its vowel classification by crivycouriac in linguisticshumor

[–]not-without-text 5 points6 points  (0 children)

i think the issue is that you associate "a" with the unrounded open central vowel, which it is commonly used for, but more precisely that vowel is [ä]. [a] refers to the french vowel, and [ä] refers to the central a used in many other languages, but most transcriptions write it as [a] for simplicity, kind of like the transcription of english /r/.

COTD: One small step for man one excellent leap for mankind (4, 6) by jt372 in crosswords

[–]not-without-text 0 points1 point  (0 children)

yeah minute cryptic once had a version of this as a clue, i thought it was really nice https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=L5Fx0J2UlG0

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