That looks much more like ‘so’ ソ than ‘n’ ン
That looks much more like ‘so’ ソ than ‘n’ ン
If you took away the majority of the bacon this would be a really good breakfast 👍🏽
Almost half of all English words are borrowed from French, dating from when England was colonized and culturally subjugated by the Norman French starting in 1066.
When we played it you also had to go down on one knee, and the person unfreezing you had to sit on your knee while they flushed your arm.
Since you’re being shit on in this thread, I just wanted to thank you for being so thorough and objective in your responses here, and for your links to sources. We need more people like you on Lemmy.
Unless you’re talking about Scots, the closest languages to English are separated by at minimum more than a thousand years, which is plenty of time for those constraints to change significantly.
I’d even expect different dialects of English to behave differently when adapting loanwords, because they already show plenty of phonotactic differentiation.
I have a private theory about that, actually (that is, not backed up by research yet to my knowledge).
I think this is due to accidental gaps, that some languages allow for clusters that just don’t happen to appear in those languages by an accident of history (e.g. they allowed them at one point but they were eliminated by a phonotactic filter that no longer exists in the language, etc.), so when they borrow a word with that string now, they can pronounce it no problem.
If you think about phonotactic constraints as being the result of constant rankings (as in models like Optimality Theory), this should even be predicted as a form of Emergence of the Unmarked (though stop clusters are pretty marked, so this would be more like “local” or “coincidental” unmarkedness).
I also think that studying borrowing adaptations like this would give us a more accurate picture of the overall constraint ranking of a given language than just restricting ourselves to native words.
Not on lemmy.ml there isn’t!
What actually happened is that these roots were borrowed from Ancient Greek by paleontologists to form the word “pterodactyl”, not modern Greek.
In Ancient Greek, they would have pronounced both the “p” and the “t”, but “pt” isn’t a possible beginning of a word for English speakers, and so borrowed words that start with “pt-” (and “mn-” and a few others) have the first sound deleted as a repair mechanism to allow English speakers to pronounce them.
In modern Greek, “pt” consonant clusters that used to be pronounced as-is have undergone dissimilation - both “p” and “t” are stop consonants, so the “p” has instead become an “f” (which is a fricative, not a stop), to make the cluster easier to pronounce.
Qualcomm really does want to become Intel.
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That’s about a pound of cheese every two days. Pretty sure I could hit that number without any trouble at all.
And 5 was a significant downgrade from 4.
I’m still playing civ IV. With the direction the series has been going, it looks like I probably always will.
Thou seest me rolling, thou’rt hating.
Good ole strict vs. sloppy interpretation.
Same. As much as I love Domino’s, if we’re going out, we’re definitely going to a proper pizzeria.
I just use hyphens for everything.
Domino’s pan, double cheese, light sauce, extra pepperoni. I’ve tried deep dish in Chicago, New York style in New York, traditional pizzerias in Italy, and countless overpriced “craft” places from all over North America, and nothing I’ve tried even comes close.
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TL;DW: Now that the Taliban actually has the responsibility of holding a country together, they’re no longer jihadist enough to satisfy the bloodlust of the other terrorist groups in the area, so they’re now being attacked as traitors to the cause. Even worse for the people of the nation, these groups have begun attacking other nations like Russia to force another incursion into Afghanistan to topple the Taliban and leave a power vacuum so the more extreme groups can take over.