Quite the journey. English "Rus" and Vietnamese "Nga" are technically cognates xd.

Рꙋсь

Որուս

ᠣᠷᠣᠰ᠋

ᠣᡵᠣᠰ

俄羅斯

Nga

u/Daniboy0826 — 8 days ago

I'm worried for TPOT Fries.

I know that this has already been said a million times, but I want to share it too.

Basically, recent TPOT Fries has been acting more and more like his BFDIA self, like when he was the sole cause of the whole "trapped in a closet" fiasco with Eggy, Naily and Remote, or when he told Puffball that he "gives up" because it's how he does things, this is something that I don't really like. The writers saw how popular his BFDIA iteration became and now want to bring it to TPOT too, but this decision is simply weird.

BFB to Early TPOT Fries is not only a realistic evolution from his BFDIA self, one that would be strange if reverted out of nowhere, but post-IDFB Fries is also an interesting character on his own that I would very much like to see explored! His antics of caring about leadership and respectfulness in BFB were in no way forgettable for me, the biggest downside is that this personality of his and Golf Ball's are really similar, but eh if the writers know what they are doing then they could separate these two more.

But yeah, last time we saw true BFB Fries was in TPOT 6 as he acted more like his BFDIA self in TPOT 22 and 23. You could say that he instead acted more like a mixture of these two iterations in TPOT, by being nonchalant as in BFDIA but also more calm like in BFB, but in my opinion this type of in-between would work better for IDFB, because y'know, it's in the middle! TPOT Fries should act like BFB Fries.

u/Daniboy0826 — 11 days ago

(Somewhat inaccurate) Europe on Armistice Day (1918)

I say somewhat inaccurate because it's hard to really represent what was absolutely going on at the time, so places like Austria-Hungary, Germany and especially Russia might have some mistakes here and there. I myself spotted some in the very source that I utilized to create this!

Feel free to point out mistakes in the replies.

Map that I used.

u/Daniboy0826 — 14 days ago

3/4 Parisian French nasal vowels also exist in Portuguese xd

As a Brazilian, when I started to learn French, I just had to pronounce /ɛ̃/, /ɔ̃/ and /œ̃/ the same way I pronounce my native Portuguese "an", "on" and "an" respectively lol. The only one that's actually unique is /ɑ̃/.

I thought that it would be a lot more complicated to get the hang of it at first because the IPA symbols were all different.

u/Daniboy0826 — 19 days ago

I really enjoy the TPOT Final 11 that we have!

Of course I'm not saying that it is the best Final 11 possible, but this one is pretty solid!!! I'm glad that it is here.

u/Daniboy0826 — 1 month ago

Portugal cyka blyat (Cyrillic alphabet for European Portuguese)

Identifying /a/, /ɛ/ and /ɔ/ in unstressed syllables would be easier with this alphabet, they would replace the old silent consonants that European Portuguese used to have in its orthography xd

u/Daniboy0826 — 1 month ago

Is /ɐ/ phonemic in Brazilian Portuguese?

I ask this as a Brazilian.

Basically the phonemic vowel set that Brazilian Portuguese has says that /a/ and /ɐ/ are both distinct phonemes and that they should be separated, for example, the two As in the word "nada" represent different sounds: /ˈna.dɐ/.

But the thing is, unlike in European Portuguese where /ɐ/ is much more consistent as a sound and there are minimal pairs (prep. para /ˈpɐ.ɾɐ/ vs. verb para /ˈpa.ɾɐ/), Brazilian Portuguese's /ɐ/ is very inconsistent and has a much more limited use.

In Portugal, /ɐ/ is prevalent is almost all unstressed A cases (parada /pɐˈɾa.dɐ/) except mostly when there's a historical /kC/ or /pC/ cluster (fração /fɾaˈsɐ̃w̃/ from Latin fractiōnem). It's also common as the realization of A before /mV/, /nV/ and /ɲ/: (cama /ˈkɐ.mɐ/, cano /ˈkɐ.nu/ and canho /ˈkɐ.ɲu/). There's even a stressed diphthong /ɐj/ in words like leite /ˈlɐj.tɨ/!

But in Brazil, /ɐ/ is only actually reoccurring as the pronunciation of the unstressed letter A in the end of words (parada /paˈɾa.dɐ/) as unstressed As in almost every other situations are simply /a/ in BP. The EP /ɐ/ before /mV/, /nV/ and /ɲ/ just becomes /ɐ̃/ in BP which is an entirely different phoneme as nasal vowels are phonemic in Portuguese: cama /ˈkɐ̃.mɐ/, cano /ˈkɐ̃.nu/ and canho /ˈkɐ̃.ɲu/. And to top it all off, there's no /ɐj/ diphthong as every instance in EP of it is replaced by /ej/ in BP: leite /ˈlej.ti/.

Some Brazilian dialects, like those in the South, omit /ɐ/ altogether as final unstressed A might be pronounced simply as /a/: massa /ˈma.sa/.

Basically /ɐ/ in Brazilian Portuguese acts much more as an allophone of /a/ word-finally than as an actual phoneme by itself, and getting rid of it in the BP vowel table doesn't seem to be too problematic as the instances of /ɐ/ in stressed position, these being it behind nasal consonants, might as well just be interpreted as /ɐ̃/.

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u/Daniboy0826 — 1 month ago

The day Donut gets eliminated this subreddit is gonna riot into chaos worse than TPOT 23

If everyone crashed out because of Winner and Liy getting eliminated, imagine the day where this guy gets out!

Also Donut is definitely cooked in his next Cake at Stake because who could he possibly survive over in the Final 11 😭 maybe Book but if the writers continue to give her something to do like in TPOT 23 then she might receive a lot of votes again.

The only way he can perhaps survive is if the writers dedicate 50% of TPOT 25's screentime to him and put him UFE agaisnt 2 people who didn't gain any screentime in the episode. After that, the writers can make him safe again for the next 5 consecutive episodes or so.

He performed worse than Winner in TPOT 17 despite getting more relevance than them in TPOT 16, and Winner recently got eliminated, so yikes.

u/Daniboy0826 — 1 month ago

Where can I find good online dictionaries for the langues d'oïl?

I've been trying to find online dictionaries for the languages of Gallo, Picard and Norman (specifically the continental varieties) for ages now and I can't find anything good.

But hey if anyone has an online dictionary for any other langue d'oïl too like Bourguignon, Champenois, Lorrain or Poitevin-Saintongeais etc. (literally any one of them) I would appreciate it too.

The only one that I have good online dictionaries for right now is Walloon, most material that I find about other langues d'oïl generally have like only 1,000 words or so and a lot of missing basic vocabulary.

Wiktionary is fine but I want something more full.

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u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

In IPA: why is one symbol for the dental fricatives Greek ⟨θ⟩ while the other one is Germanic ⟨ð⟩?

Unvoiced dental fricative is /θ/ while voiced is /ð/, but why does it alternate like that?

Greek has both ⟨θ⟩ and ⟨δ⟩ for unvoiced and voiced, and Germanic languages also had both ⟨þ⟩ and ⟨ð⟩.

So why when choosing the letters to represent them, instead of choosing both Greek or both Germanic, they chose one Greek and one Germanic?

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u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

Existent take: Eggy's anger agaisnt Fries was justifiable.

Fries was responsable for getting not only himself, but also Eggy, Naily and Remote stuck in that tiny uninteresting room for two months and never showed any signs of remorse or helpfulness! I would be mad too.

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By the way, Fries acted like BFDIA Fries at the first half of TPOT 22, which is weird considering how BFDIA Fries and TPOT Fries are noticeably two very different people but, I digress.

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And about Eggy, yes her leaving Stapy behind later in the episode was dumb and not justifiable at all.

u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

I just now realized that the recommended characters in this scene are supposed to be the BFDIA crew 😮

I had never paid attention to the initial sign lol

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The gold ones are the Huang twins!

u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

Are /aj/ and /ai̯/ pronounced the same or differently?

Like specifically between consonants or at the end of words, would /ˈsejs/ and /ˈsei̯s/ be articulated differently or is it just preference?

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u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

Phoenician 𐤂 /ɡ/, 𐤊 /k/ and 𐤒 /q/ to Latin C, K and Q (all /k/) was the biggest decline ever. 💔

Darn you Etruscans for grabbing the Greek letter Γ, that was for /ɡ/, and assigning its Etruscan equivalent 𐌂 the /k/ sound instead because it was "easier to write than 𐌊". The Latin alphabet popped up with 3 letters (C, K and Q) for /k/ as G was later created for /ɡ/, but why didn't they just give /ɡ/ back to C. 😭💔

For context: Phoenician abjad -> Greek alphabet -> Etruscan alphabet -> Latin alphabet.

u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago

Ways of writing /ʃ/ in the Latin Alphabet Tier List

An example language for each graph here:

  • c - Kikuyu
  • ch - French
  • g - Galician (reintegrationist)
  • ish - Gascon Occitan
  • iss - Languedocien Occitan (some dialects)
  • ix - Aragonese
  • j - Galician (reintegrationist)
  • ll - Rioplatense Spanish
  • s - Hungarian
  • sc - Italian
  • sch - German
  • sci - Italian
  • sh - English
  • si - Welsh
  • siy - Tagalog
  • sj - Dutch
  • sk - Faroese
  • ss - Auvergnat Occitan
  • sy - Malay
  • sz - Kashubian
  • š - Czech
  • ş - Turkish
  • ș - Romanian
  • ṣ - Yoruba
  • ŝ - Esperanto
  • ʃ - International African Alphabet
  • x - Asturian
  • xh - Walloon
  • y - Rioplatense Spanish
  • z - Seri
u/Daniboy0826 — 2 months ago