... 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
ray@...
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
conlang@...
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
conlang@...
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
markjreed@...
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
relay@...
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
markjreed@...
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...
antonielly@...
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
happycritter@...
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
markjreed@...
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
conlang@...
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
ray@...
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
rfmilly@...
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
ray@...
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
rfmilly@...
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
hsteoh@...
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
isaacp@...
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
isaacp@...
Feb 1, 2007 8:15 pm
... Try links from http://www.languages-study.com/preussisch.html -- Yitzik...
144505
Isaac Penzev
isaacp@...
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@...
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
theiling@...
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.
phil@...
Feb 2, 2007 3:48 am
... Yet Another English Pronunciation Thread....
144509
Henrik Theiling
theiling@...
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
joefatula@...
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
hmiller@...
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
rfmilly@...
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
joefatula@...
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
aquamarine_demon@...
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
philip.newton@...
Feb 2, 2007 8:35 am
... I made one in Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian once, many moons ago: see http://www.zompist.com/board/messages/162.html and ...
144516
R A Brown
ray@...
Feb 2, 2007 10:29 am
... There's no /Z/ for those of us who have 'garage' rhyme with marriage & carriage. ... They're both missing _wh_ in when, what etc., methinks. -- Ray ...
