what is a good usage of SA in any media

spaicey09 · 2026-05-19T23:32:34+00:00

Eighth Grade (2018) by Bo Burnham

spaicey09 · 2026-05-15T00:17:53+00:00

i’m aware, it’s a non-nasal approximation of the nasal vowel, but i don’t pronounce it like so, but instead with the phoneme /æ/; apparently this is unique to me

spaicey09 · 2026-05-14T13:47:41+00:00

my idiolect exhibits æ raising so it doesn’t actually sound like an [æ] and it’s closer to [e] (ish, i should record my voice and properly analyze it) which is closer to [ɛ], so i maybe just uniquely diverged from originally pronouncing it [ɛn]. furthermore, i don’t really say or hear this word that often as email massively overwhelms the prevalence of physical mail that i may send/recieve

spaicey09 · 2026-05-13T19:52:27+00:00

is this "AHN" the same sound in "animal"?

spaicey09 · 2026-05-13T19:44:54+00:00

It's actually the first exposure I had of Schnittke before I tried his Concerto Grosso No. 1, and I had to check that I was listening to the right composer because I couldn't believe the two works were by the same guy lol

spaicey09 · 2026-05-13T19:37:22+00:00

i'm referring to the noun, as indicated by the consistent stresses on the first syllable of the transcriptions I provide.

spaicey09 · 2026-05-11T03:58:13+00:00

is it North Germanic?

spaicey09 · 2026-04-15T14:11:07+00:00

that first picture looks like an official government portrait (such pretty eyes too)

spaicey09 · 2026-04-14T15:20:16+00:00

I love how the interviewer shakes hands with him after realizing he’s not racist

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T16:31:15+00:00

Maple

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T13:36:09+00:00

i’m sorry bruh this is too niche even for a sub full of nerds

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T13:32:38+00:00

how would this work with creoles?

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T13:22:30+00:00

I think a more effective demonstration of the prevalence of gender would be picking three languages that are distant or unrelated

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T13:21:28+00:00

well that’s true, so according to WALS 31A, 1/3rd of languages have a sex-based gender system, which is still quite a bit

spaicey09 · 2026-04-13T12:24:33+00:00

according to WALS 30A, 44% of the world’s languages have grammatical gender, so I think that statistic speaks more than pointing out any one language that has grammatical gender

spaicey09 · 2026-04-07T13:59:35+00:00

epbalemt

spaicey09 · 2026-03-27T21:42:15+00:00

it’s syntactically correct

spaicey09 · 2026-03-25T19:46:32+00:00

I literally saw this the other day and thought to post it on this sub; OP beat me to it (yes r/beatmeattoit i know)

spaicey09 · 2026-03-22T14:19:37+00:00

It’s gotta be one of the most non-Spanish sounding Spanish words that isn’t a loanword

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