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by bradrn 5y ago
I don’t speak Swedish, but I found a sketch grammar (Andersson’s) which says that it’s [y]. Not sure if that’s correct or not though.
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by bradrn 5y ago
A couple of years ago I had a geology class in which the lecturer (albeit a non-New Zealander) consistently pronounced Ngāuruhoe with initial /n/. Interesting to know that New Zealanders pronounce it with /ɡ/ instead.
783.
by bradrn 5y ago
Huh, what a coincidence — I just re-read Thud! a couple of weeks ago! An excellent illustration of my point that phonetic spelling is highly dialect-dependent. (Oh, and don’t worry; I’m a native English speaker, and I can’t understand Pra
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by bradrn 5y ago
> No, it's used everywhere in phonology, for every language. Sure, of course, but I was thinking mostly of those grammars (usually Sino-Tibetan ones, for some reason) which use IPA throughout instead of a romanisation. (I suppose th
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve never been quite sure about my accent, but it’s probably closest to Australian English. The relevant sound change is /l/-vocalisation: syllable-final [ɫ] → [w] with accompanying vowel changes, and syllabic [ɫ̩] → [u]. So I ha
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by bradrn 5y ago
Interestingly enough, the IPA is in fact not the only phonetic transcription system. The most famous alternative is Americanist notation [0], but there’s also the Uralic Phonetic Alphabet [1] and probably others as well which I’ve forgott
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by bradrn 5y ago
Phonetic spelling is useless when you’ve got more than one dialect. For instance, consider the word ‘castle’. Is this [kæsɫ̩], or [kɑːsl̩], or [kɑːsu] (as it is for me), or something else entirely? Having an orthography which is not purely
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I wasn’t really aware of the IPA, is this mostly used for teaching purposes when learning a new language? It’s mostly used for linguistic purposes — most often in grammatical descriptions of obscure languages, or for precisely specifyi
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by bradrn 5y ago
> I wonder what IPA would look like if it were invented today? Probably not like this. I agree! I’ve heard that IPA was optimised for movable type, a medium in which it was easy to reverse and flip letters — thus we get e.g. ʌ,ɐ,ə,ɘ,ɔ,ɟ
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by bradrn 5y ago
In addition to all the other (excellent!) sibling replies, I’d like to add that there are some cases in which audio is impractical. e.g. I often see reference grammars of obscure languages use IPA transcription, especially when there is no
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by bradrn 5y ago
As a Haskeller, I feel obliged to say that that is a parody. A self-parody, perhaps, but a parody nonetheless. In reality, the vast majority of Haskellers (including me!) wouldn’t have a clue what that sentence means — but we’re content t
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’ve tried several live audio programming languages (though not to any great extent), and have found Extempore to be easily the best. It’s the only language I’ve found which lets me control both the low-level details of synthesis and the hi
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by bradrn 5y ago
I’m pretty sure I heard somewhere that the ear does autocorrelation rather than a Fourier transform, but I’m not sure how correct that is. EDIT: Scene_Cast2’s comment below says it’s Empirical Mode Decomposition, not autocorrelation. Anyw
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by bradrn 5y ago
As a Jew, I must admit that Christianity SE gives me much the same impression. (Indeed, any site with a lot of unfamiliar jargon ends up feeling a bit like that.)
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by bradrn 5y ago
Not sure about the exact rule, but I believe Jewish astronauts use the time zone of the place they launched from.
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by bradrn 5y ago
> What’s the meaning of „the Sabbath prohibition against operating electrical devices“? Not executing a physical action? Any action? Intent? My understanding as a Jew (though not Orthodox) is that you are forbidden from manually turning
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by bradrn 6y ago
> I'm confused about your quote though: is "remarkably minor" meant to mean "less important than expected"? Yes. > Were there other forms of "phonetic writing" at play? At the time that quote was tal
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by bradrn 6y ago
> I meant that the writing system appeared at first, not as a way to "write down" spoken language, but as a language of its own (hence independent) with no relation to the already present spoken language. This is incorrect, tho
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by bradrn 6y ago
> It seemed to me from that same documentary that pretty much all writing systems appeared independently from spoken language: In a sense, written and spoken appeared independently, and then the Rébus principle, and then this "acrop
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by bradrn 6y ago
> Then, and this is the "reduced" part I'm referring to: you simply forget the original meaning of your symbol, and only take it for a basic sound. This is usually known as the ‘acrophonic principle’, and indeed, all alpha
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by bradrn 6y ago
> What we call alphabets, as distinguished from abigudas, abjads, and syllabaries, almost all derived directly or indirectly from Greek. Abigudas and abjads also almost all derived from Phoenician/Egyptian (from which Greek also der
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by bradrn 6y ago
Sorry, yes, I did indeed mean ‘kanji’, not ‘hanja’! (Pity I can’t edit anymore…) > Also on the Chinese family are Khitan large and small script, and the Jurchen large and small script, where some of the characters seem to be phonograms g
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by bradrn 6y ago
Not quite. Writing was independently invented about three or four times: • Sumerian cuneiform was undisputedly the first writing system to be invented. • Egyptian hieroglyphics was probably made with knowledge of cuneiform, but could have
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by bradrn 6y ago
> By relative interval I understand the interval within an octave, so C-D is a second regardless of the octave. I don’t think GP is denying this. They are simply saying that an interval at a lower frequency is generally more dissonant th
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by bradrn 6y ago
> Have you noticed that there is a circular boundary where the layer of water suddenly changes depth? I stumbled upon an explanation for this a while ago: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydraulic_jump
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by bradrn 6y ago
> When I was in high school, I'd see water running out of a faucet growing narrower, and wonder if I could figure out what determines that curve. I found it was rather easy to do. Out of curiosity, does anyone know the solution to t
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by bradrn 6y ago
One thing I haven’t seen mentioned here yet: I use print debugging all the time in Haskell, and find it works really well there compared to other languages. There’s a couple of reasons for this, I think: • Nearly everything is immutable, so
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by bradrn 6y ago
There’s a setting for that: Edit → Preferences → Input → Emulate Numpad (‘Main 1 to 0 keys act as the numpad ones’). I don’t use Blender often, but I always enable this setting on the rare occasions when I use it on a laptop.
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by bradrn 6y ago
> https://www.amazon.com/HiLetgo-USBTiny-USBtinyISP-Programmer... > https://rickcarlino.com/2017/05/26/up-and-running-with-flash... Once again, thanks for the links! I don’t have too mu
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by bradrn 6y ago
> Chinese; Arabic; Japanese; Hungarian; Korean; Finnish; Polish Why all well-known Eurasian languages? Lesser-known languages have difficult features galore, especially for European speakers. (The first example which comes to mind is the

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