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144487
... 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...
Philip Newton
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Feb 1, 2007
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144488
... 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....
R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
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144489
... 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...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
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144490
... 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,...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
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144491
... 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@...>...
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144492
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...
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Feb 1, 2007
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144493
"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...
Mark J. Reed
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Feb 1, 2007
1:29 pm
144494
I found a neography I have never heard of, called "Gregg Shorthand". I thought it would be nice to share it with the list: ...
Antonielly Garcia Rod...
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Feb 1, 2007
1:51 pm
144495
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...
Mia Soderquist
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Feb 1, 2007
2:22 pm
144496
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....
Mark J. Reed
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Feb 1, 2007
2:53 pm
144497
... 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...
Benct Philip Jonsson
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Feb 1, 2007
3:47 pm
144498
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...
R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
5:19 pm
144499
... 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--...
Roger Mills
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Feb 1, 2007
5:25 pm
144500
... 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...
R A Brown
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Feb 1, 2007
5:27 pm
144501
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...
Roger Mills
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Feb 1, 2007
6:15 pm
144502
... [...] ObConlang: What about y'all's conlangs? :-) T -- Heuristics are bug-ridden by definition. If they didn't have bugs, they'd be algorithms....
H. S. Teoh
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Feb 1, 2007
7:36 pm
144503
... 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 ...
Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
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144504
... Try links from http://www.languages-study.com/preussisch.html -- Yitzik...
Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
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144505
... 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...
Isaac Penzev
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Feb 1, 2007
8:18 pm
144506
In a message dated 2/1/2007 3:40:35 AM Central Standard Time, ... What's "YAEPT"? stevo...
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Feb 1, 2007
9:28 pm
144507
Hi! ... "Yet another English pronunciation thread" For more info: http://wiki.frath.net/Conlang-L_FAQ **Henrik...
Henrik Theiling
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Feb 2, 2007
12:51 am
144508
... Yet Another English Pronunciation Thread....
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Feb 2, 2007
3:48 am
144509
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...
Henrik Theiling
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Feb 2, 2007
4:02 am
144510
... 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...
Joseph Fatula
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Feb 2, 2007
4:28 am
144511
... 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...
Herman Miller
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Feb 2, 2007
4:37 am
144512
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...
Roger Mills
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Feb 2, 2007
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144513
... 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...
Joseph Fatula
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Feb 2, 2007
6:53 am
144514
... 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,...
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Feb 2, 2007
7:46 am
144515
... I made one in Mark Rosenfelder's Verdurian once, many moons ago: see http://www.zompist.com/board/messages/162.html and ...
Philip Newton
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Feb 2, 2007
8:35 am
144516
... 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 ...
R A Brown
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Feb 2, 2007
10:29 am
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