You don't have to read it all

DON'T YOU TELL ME WHAT TO DO :angry: ok

aaaalso

'Cuz you're cooler with the Y.

Oh~ My Dad had to take a Linguistics class! He would come home and practice all these weird exercises. xD It was soooo funny. ;P Have fun!

~Sunneh

We like our classical roots.

(the freaky thing is that I understood pretty much all of those terms just by their derivations.)

Nearly all of my college friends are linguistics majors. It's absurd and also a little creepy. They also happen to be both brilliant and completely nuts, if that means anything to you.

Yeah, there are a lot of sounds that a person can make, and they all need absurdly precise names. Jargon is used in pretty much any field, but linguistics has some of the crazier ones. Mostly because they have to name fairly crazy things.

Not as crazy as anatomy though. A million billion Latin terms that mean baffling things in Latin for parts of your body that you didn't even know existed.

Aren't 1, 2, and 3 stating the obvious?

Japanese phonology, eh?

...or Chinese...or whatever other languages include alveolar affricates...

I love my field.

JRRT

Yeah, I got there through one of the articles on Japanese.

I think this is the sound that would be rendered as "q" in Chinese pinyin, although it never occurred to me until now that the pinyin "q" and the romaji "ts" were the same thing.

No, I'm not actually taking any linguistics class. This is just the kind of stuff I end up reading while feeling curious on Wikipedia.

Linguistics are fascinating though, despite the funny terms. I might take an elective in college.

I think this is the sound that would be rendered as "q" in Chinese pinyin, although it never occurred to me until now that the pinyin "q" and the romaji "ts" were the same thing.

Actually, I think it would be pinyin /c/ that corresponds to Japanese /ts/. /q/ is, as far as I know, (which isn't much in terms of Chinese ) an "alveopalatal affricate", meaning that it's a bit farther back along the roof of the mouth than the "alveolar affricate".

Fun.

JRRT

I think this is the sound that would be rendered as "q" in Chinese pinyin, although it never occurred to me until now that the pinyin "q" and the romaji "ts" were the same thing.

Actually, I think it would be pinyin /c/ that corresponds to Japanese /ts/. /q/ is, as far as I know, (which isn't much in terms of Chinese ) an "alveopalatal affricate", meaning that it's a bit farther back along the roof of the mouth than the "alveolar affricate".

 

Fun.

 

JRRT

Hmm...

You're right.

I knew something sounded off.

Also, after that little experimentation I just conducted, I'd imagine a linguistics test would sound very interesting. XD

I don't recall saying that...

I don't recall saying that...