I learned about it in a rather off-topic way; syntax professor talking about Portuguese phrase structure, someone asks a question referring to a local variety, she answers to not assume the same structure for dialectal phenomena. Her example was the Jespersen's cycle, something like:
She also mentioned other negative concord words (nenhum[a]/none, nada/nothing, etc.) might be undergoing the same process for the relevant dialects.
One thing I would add is that this video made it seem as though English is relatively unique in being stress-timed.
Indeed, it isn't - it's a really common feature across the world.
which, combined with English, suggests perhaps this is an ancestral feature of the Germanic family?
IMO it's possible, but unlikely. Two reasons:
Thanks!
I'll be creating soon-ish a Matrix room to organise ourselves, do you mind if I contact you then?
Emulador é mais uma questão de qual você gosta mais, raramente há um "melhor", sabe? Os meus favoritos são o mGBA e o snes9x-gtk, mas muita gente gosta de front-end unificado (tipo RetroArch).
Geoff Lindsey has some damn great videos on English phonetics and phonology, I heavily recommend them; for example, this one, about the transcription of Standard Southern British vowels; to keep it short
On the video shared by the OP, I think Lindsey made a great job highlighting that prosody is also a feature that a language may or may not use to convey information. English is mostly stress-timed (unless you're Welsh, and specially if you also speak Welsh), so it uses prosodic stress a lot; in the meantime, Spanish (he compared EN and ES in his James Bond example) is mostly syllable-timed, so it barely uses this sort of reduction - if anything, quicker speech tends to attack consonants (cue to Chilean [äo] for /aðo/ -ado) way more often.
He also mentions L2 speakers; it's worth noting prosody is a fucking pain to assimilate, so it's no wonder that non-native speakers rarely use it. (Also, anecdotally speaking, I've noticed people highly proficient in a non-native language tend to let that language affect their native one's prosody.)
I made this map a year or so ago, by superimposing two maps from Wikipedia. (If anyone wants I can dig the source maps.) Lancashire is that red "bubble" up north. Rhoticity is dying in the UK, and specially in England.
And while the feature alone is not a big deal, since it's preserved elsewhere, it's a sign that local varieties are dying - and those are pretty unique. They're likely being replaced with Southern Standard British, by a death of a thousand cuts.
This also shows that claims that "American English" is killing the local dialects are likely false, otherwise you'd see an increase of rhoticity there. The local dialects are dying but due to country-internal pressures, such as identity; not due to simple media exposure. (This is, sadly, a rather typical pattern)
I'm glad to see GoboLinux resurrected. I didn't use it much, but I really like to see distros doing different stuff, like questioning even the need for the standard file hierarchy.
Dá uma olhada neste link. A maior parte dos torrents populares de ROMs é composta de coleções. Daí caso venha emulador junto basta ignorar e usar o que você quer.
Perhaps you've read a burst of artistic freedom, a practical guide to Latin profanity, a meta-literary discourse on the contrast between poet and work... it's one of those poems where each person read something different.
For me, at least, when I read that poem, I read something that makes my inner 11yo laugh non-stop.
Conlang, right?
It's completely fine to do some ad hoc IPA extensions when describing your conlang, just make sure to clarify them in the conlang files - both for others and for your future self. Or even ditch IPA and use a different notation system, made at home - specially when your conspeakers don't have the same phonatory organs as humans would.
Kinda - it was about people being unable to do maths if they rely too much on calculators. And it's actually a valid argument, if you care about mental maths*.
There are two differences here, though:
*you should - it's often faster and less laborious to do coarse maths by head than by calculator, and it allows you to spot errors you wouldn't otherwise. Same deal with any other tool, tools are great but you should be able to do the basics without them too.
This infographic is still incomplete; I'm posting it here in the hope that I can get some feedback about it. It has three goals:
Criticism is welcome as long as constructive.
EDIT: OK, too much text. I'm clipping as much as I can.
This is not some sort of fancy new development, but it's such a classical experiment that it's always worth sharing IMO. Plus it's fun.
When you initially mix both solutions, nothing seems to happen. But once you wait a wee bit, the colour suddenly changes, from transparent to a dark blue.
There are a bunch of variations of this reaction, but they all boil down to the same things:
"Wait a minute, why are there a reducing agent and an oxidiser, doing opposite things? They should cancel each other out!" - well, yes! However this does not happen instantaneously. And eventually the reducing agent will run dry (as long as there's enough oxidiser), the triiodide will pile up, react with the starch and you'll get the blue colour.
Here are simplified versions of the main reactions:
(C₆H₆O₆ = dehydroascorbic acid) Eventually #2 stops happening because all vitamin C was consumed, so the triiodide piles up, reacts with the starch, and suddenly blue:
EDIT: @[email protected] shared something that might help to circumvent this shit:
Contained in these parentheses is a zero-width joiner: ()
Basically, add those to whatever you feel that might be filtered out, then remove the parentheses. The content inside the parentheses is invisible, but it screws with regex rules.
Based on
SVG source for anyone willing to give it a try. Made with Inkscape. The emojis were added as images because Inkscape.
Aue, patrue placentae! (Oi, tio do pavê!)
They can if they want, that's 100% fine.
The goal here isn't to concentrate the activity, but to encourage people to ask away, even if they feel like it is not worth creating a whole new thread for that.