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144487 Philip Newton
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Feb 1, 2007
9:06 am
... It's missing an 's'. Perhaps you meant "The quick brown fox jumps over a lazy dog"? (Which also replaces the second 'the' by 'a', for a saving of two...
144488 R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
9:30 am
... I'm afraid it is. It will be obvious from the almost innumerable YAEPTs that there is unlikely to be agreement over just what are all the English phonemes....
144489 Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
11:41 am
... The /o/ is quite high for many Swedes, and in addition 'over- rounded' in comparison to e.g. /o/ in French or Italian, making it sound even higher than it...
144490 Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
12:06 pm
... How specifically Californian is LOT-THOUGHT merger nowadays, anyway? ... Yes, you do belong to the oldest cadre of GenAm speakers, don't you? But again,...
144491 Mark J. Reed
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Feb 1, 2007
1:21 pm
... Oh. OK. Sorry to interrupt. But if the vowel in <beak> et al. is /i:/, then is not /i/ the vowel in "click" et al? -- Mark J. Reed <markjreed@...>...
144492 T. A. McLeay
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Feb 1, 2007
1:28 pm
On 01/02/07, Benct Philip Jonsson <conlang@...> wrote: ^^ Thanks Mark, that looks much betterly! ... I did not think that Russian made a distinction of...
144493 Mark J. Reed
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Feb 1, 2007
1:29 pm
"Ivan" and "Igor" are somewhat separate topics in (at least US) English, despite their shared phonemic origins in Russian. "Igor" is best known as the name of...
144494 Antonielly Garcia Rod...
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Feb 1, 2007
1:51 pm
I found a neography I have never heard of, called "Gregg Shorthand". I thought it would be nice to share it with the list: ...
144495 Mia Soderquist
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Feb 1, 2007
2:22 pm
Neat. Gregg shorthand is what they taught in high schools around here in business classes when I was in school. (Goodness, I am getting old. I don't think they...
144496 Mark J. Reed
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Feb 1, 2007
2:53 pm
When I was a kid my mom was what they call a "returning college student"; I remember helping her with algebra and being fascinated by the Gregg shorthand....
144497 Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
3:47 pm
... Yes, those transcriptions should've been flagged as phone_t_ic. Sorry. I started out phone_m_ic without lengths, then thought I better add lengths, but...
144498 R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
5:19 pm
Benct Philip Jonsson wrote: [snip] ... Quite possibly. Now it's ['aIvn=] or [ivA~], depending upon language. The same applies to other bilingual members of the...
144499 Roger Mills
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Feb 1, 2007
5:25 pm
... I don't know, but suspect it has become somewhat widespread. For that matter, it's having begun in California (in my mind) is merely Conventional Wisdom--...
144500 R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
5:27 pm
... I kept my university notes in Gregg Shorthand when I was university (1958 - 1961). I had learnt Pitman some years before, but much preferred Gregg when I...
144501 Roger Mills
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Feb 1, 2007
6:15 pm
My Aunt Isabelle (1899-1977, peace be upon her) taught shorthand/typing in the Milwaukee school system for many years (late 1920s-1965 or so). She usually...
144502 H. S. Teoh
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Feb 1, 2007
7:36 pm
... [...] ObConlang: What about y'all's conlangs? :-) T -- Heuristics are bug-ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, they'd be algorithms....
144503 Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
8:15 pm
... I am too tired and too busy atm to give a large comment, but your ideas may be workable. I myself am meditating over a conlang project that conflates ...
144504 Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
8:15 pm
... Try links from http://www.languages-study.com/preussisch.html -- Yitzik...
144505 Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
8:18 pm
... This week I am busy with lecturing (and oral translation/interpreting of lectures for a visiting professor) at an extramural students session, so I am...
144506 MorphemeAddict@... Send Email Feb 1, 2007
9:28 pm
In a message dated 2/1/2007 3:40:35 AM Central Standard Time, ... What's "YAEPT"? stevo...
144507 Henrik Theiling
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Feb 2, 2007
12:51 am
Hi! ... "Yet another English pronunciation thread" For more info: http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang-L_FAQ **Henrik...
144508 Ph.D.
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Feb 2, 2007
3:48 am
... Yet Another English Pronunciation Thread....
144509 Henrik Theiling
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Feb 2, 2007
4:02 am
Last posted: May 4th, 2003 ... Bonus Vocab from WordNet: This is randomly selected automatically, so in case it offends you or you disagree, please either...
144510 Joseph Fatula
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Feb 2, 2007
4:28 am
... I'll give it a shot: - Let's choose to put half the shouting Cuban spider monkeys on Joy's wide garage instead of in your eighth hat. - Thrice I howled...
144511 Herman Miller
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Feb 2, 2007
4:37 am
... This has come up before... A Jarda example: völ nôsjkhronen ðôr'ra tuz zêb cwe gholhzjarku nò yuf zese rrün spê zùg jor de þir'rem "seven hundred...
144512 Roger Mills
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Feb 2, 2007
5:50 am
Apologies for my presumption, but I know of no better way to reach like-minded friends-- Permit me to recommend a just-released CD of fascinating and beautiful...
144513 Joseph Fatula
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Feb 2, 2007
6:53 am
... No, the second one's missing the "oo" of "boot". Let's try: - Thrice I howled with the young boy, not praising the root of each cabbage going on Sam's...
144514 Aquamarine Demon
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Feb 2, 2007
7:46 am
... How specifically Californian is LOT-THOUGHT merger nowadays, anyway?<< I'm told by my linguistics professor that the cot-caught merger is a western thing,...
144515 Philip Newton
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Feb 2, 2007
8:35 am
... I made one in Mark Rosenfelder&#39;s Verdurian once, many moons ago: see http://www.zompist.com/board/messages/162.html and ...
144516 R A Brown
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Feb 2, 2007
10:29 am
... There's no /Z/ for those of us who have 'garage&#39; rhyme with marriage & carriage. ... They're both missing _wh_ in when, what etc., methinks. -- Ray ...
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