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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 13:44
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This thread revival was highly unnecessary. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 13:42
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Yes, this is the problem when heavy stress induces vowel mutation, as any Russian should understand. :-p I personally maintain an unstressed short I, but some mutate it into a schwa. Just about everybody (at least among Americans — not sure about elsewhere) mutates an unstressed O into a schwa. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 07:58
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By the way, when I say "Identical," I mean that the words are pronounced in an identical fashion. That is, there are some dialects that drop all initial H's, so that "heat" and "eat" would both sound like "eat" ("Why, this 'eat here is just intolerable!"). Some dialects also overcompensate for this tendency by adding H's to just about everything, so they'd both sound like "heat" ("Let's heat some food!"). Here's a good description of RP, and for reference (again), here's kind of what I've been going on this whole time. Again, I'm surprised at the degree to which happy tensing is being reported in all dialects. [ Wednesday, March 22, 2006 08:00: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Wednesday, March 22 2006 07:37
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Well, once you've got the name (which I don't know), the link ought to be here. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, March 21 2006 18:35
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That's our first attestation on this thread of the pen/pin merger, I think, which leaves only a few features as yet unattested. I'm not sure that anyone will have such a thick New York accent as to have the curl/coil merger, and perhaps no one will have so thick a Cockney accent as to have the line/loin merger. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Tuesday, March 21 2006 15:11
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quote::P EDIT: I wish that this post were not as spammerific as it is, but alas. [ Tuesday, March 21, 2006 15:12: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 20 2006 19:21
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The best way to answer this question is to open up other people's scenarios in the editor and look. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 20 2006 13:51
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Apparently the loss of the /g/ in "finger" is characteristic of some Scottish dialects. (EDIT: And others... that's the interesting thing about this poll. Also, far more people are reporting saying "hap-ee" than I would've expected based on the info online.) The split of "trap" and "bath" (which had the same vowel in Middle English) didn't occur in most varieties of American English (including my own). [ Monday, March 20, 2006 13:59: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 20 2006 07:54
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Well, we don't actually know anything about what has happened in the slith homeland in the past couple of centuries up to A4. The sliths were banished at least one hundred and probably two hundred years before A1, which is many, many decades before A4 (although it varies, depending on who you talk to). Empire do fall, from time to time. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Monday, March 20 2006 07:38
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quote:"Accent" (in this sense) is not a proper linguistic term. In casual conversation, people apparently expect that there is some universal way to pronounce English, and either the Brits, the Americans, the Aussies, or somebody else actually pronounces it correctly, and everyone else has an accent. This is not the case. There are simply dialectal pronunciations. That is, completely correct RP — British — pronunciation is rather different from completely correct General American pronunciation, so who has an accent? It is true that certain dialects are more conservative than others and therefore retain older distinctions, but after looking at the host of sound changes since Shakespeare's time, I can't say that I know for sure which dialect is the most conservative. quote:That's what makes this so entertaining. :P And yeah, you're right: I should've had something about flapping. By the way, if anyone wants to know where this comes from, check out this. [ Monday, March 20, 2006 07:39: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:33
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I was copying most of these off of Wikipedia. I think "firn" ought to be "fern." Or possibly that's my own typo. Also, the question is not whether "should of" is correct (it's not). It's whether you would pronounce it the same way as "should've" if you were to say it. The questions have been modified slightly to clarify. [ Sunday, March 19, 2006 22:37: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:10
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My responses: Vowel mergers/splits: Rhyme: trap, bath - Yes Rhyme: father, bother - Yes Identical: cot, caught - No Rhyme: foot, goose - No Identical: Lennon, Lenin - No Identical: pin, pen - No Identical: line, loin - No Identical: coil, curl - No Final vowel of "happy" rhyme with vowel of "meet" - Yes R madness: Identical: father and farther - No Identical: Mary, marry, merry - No Rhyme: mirror, nearer - Not sure... think yes Rhyme: firn, fir, fur - Yes Identical: horse, hoarse - Yes L madness Rhyme: salary, celery - No Identical: fill, feel - No Identical: fell, fail - No Identical: full, fool - No Consonants Same middle consonant: Singer, finger - No Identical: Heat, eat - No Identical: Should've, should of - No Identical: Wait, weight - Yes Identical: Wine, whine - Yes -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 22:08
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I've been reading about the transition from Old English into Middle English and Middle English into Modern English, and it inspired me to create this topic so that we can all laugh at how everyone else talks funny. Here's the deal: in some dialects of English, the following pairs of words rhyme or are indistinguishable. In some dialects, they are different. Which category do you fall into? Vowel mergers/splits: Rhyme: trap, bath (the vowels, anyway) Rhyme: father, bother Identical: cot, caught Rhyme: foot, goose Identical: Lennon, Lenin Identical: pin, pen Identical: line, loin Identical: coil, curl Final vowel of "happy" rhyme with vowel of "meet" R madness: Identical: father and farther Identical: Mary, marry, merry Rhyme: mirror, nearer Rhyme: fern, fir, fur Identical: horse, hoarse L madness Rhyme: salary, celery Identical: fill, feel Identical: fell, fail Identical: full, fool Consonants Same middle consonant: Singer, finger Identical: Heat, eat Identical: Should've, should of (if you were to say "should of") Identical: Wait, weight Identical: Wine, whine [ Sunday, March 19, 2006 22:37: Message edited by: Kelandon ] -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 14:44
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The reign of terror is about to commence. No, not mine, but a reign, nonetheless. :cool: -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 13:06
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It'll be obvious when you can. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 13:01
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Also, if a thread hasn't been posted in for several days, it's generally considered good manners not to pollute it with garbage. Only post in an old topic if you have something genuinely new and useful to add. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 12:58
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When you walk into the door, it tells you that the door is locked and you don't have the right key. The right key doesn't exist. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 12:57
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The Empire and Avernum are two political entities. The sliths have many individual bands, but no one empire (unless one counts whatever may be going on in the slith homeland). The vahnatai also have many clans, one of which (Rentar-Ihrno's) is large enough to be significantly influential. The nephilim have many clans, also, one of which (the Ratbane clan) was once influential but is no more. I still count only two real major political powers. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Sunday, March 19 2006 07:29
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These things don't happen quickly, you know. It takes a while for the mods to discuss and get everything in order. Bans and new modships take upwards of a day, most of the time. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 18 2006 21:53
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The set_terrain call doesn't change the terrain script already on a space, so I don't think that will work. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |
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written Saturday, March 18 2006 21:53
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The set_terrain call doesn't change the terrain script already on a space, so I don't think that will work. -------------------- Arancaytar: Every time you ask people to compare TM and Kel, you endanger the poor, fluffy kittens. Smoo: Get ready to face the walls! Ephesos: In conclusion, yarr. Kelandon's Pink and Pretty Page!!: the authorized location for all things by me The Archive of all released BoE scenarios ever Posts: 7968 | Registered: Saturday, February 28 2004 08:00 |