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hikari_cyhan

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Mar 10, 2009 13:26

Copied from an email I sent to a girl in my History of the English Language class who missed today and wanted notes:

Continuing from last week, we left off on page 126, number III and page 148. The cases we didn't cover last week were explained this week: dative (indirect object; object of a preposition), ablative (movement away from [...]; ( Read more... )

god i love linguistics, public entries, class, linguisticsssssss, the grimm brothers are my homeboys, now let me tell you about verb strings, why are languages so cool, changing major, school

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puffs March 11 2009, 01:22:09 UTC

just because i read it doesn't mean i get it

corban_saezer March 11 2009, 02:04:10 UTC

Bless Wikipedia, because that's the only way I could follow WTF this post was about.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Phonetic_Alphabet

Is this the horror you're trying to commit to memory? It's like a level 9 spell on its own!

hikari_cyhan March 11 2009, 02:46:24 UTC

Heh, no, the IPA will be when I take Intro to Linguistics in the fall. I've only learned the symbols and sounds that apply to English.

No, right now we're studying how Proto-Indo-European sounds mutated as the language evolved into Germanic, and then into English.

fuzzy_ninja March 11 2009, 06:30:05 UTC

THIS POST WAS TORTURE BUT ALSO AWESOME AT THE SAME TIME
IDK I THINK IT MIGHT BE BECAUSE THE WORD "FRICATIVE" IS SO COOL SRSLY YOU CRAZY KID YOU

hikari_cyhan March 11 2009, 18:33:03 UTC

I'M GLAD I'M NOT THE ONLY ONE WHO THINKS THIS STUFF IS AWESOME.

And lol yes. Fricative derives from the same root as friction. :">

jade_sabre_301 March 14 2009, 06:08:11 UTC

THAT IS SO COOL. *ADDS TO MEMORIES*

hikari_cyhan March 14 2009, 17:09:04 UTC

I should have known you would appreciate this. Want me to give you the charts, too?

jade_sabre_301 March 14 2009, 17:12:38 UTC

OMG YES PLZ

I hope all this whitespace is preserved :| hikari_cyhan March 14 2009, 17:29:36 UTC

Grimm's Law & Verner's Law
PIE PG OE
bh, dh, gh ---(1)---> β, ð, ɣ ---(5)---> b, d, g
/
p, t, k -----(2)-----> f, θ, k[x] /
/
f, θ, k[x] ---(3)--> β, ð, ɣ

s ---(3)---> z ---(6)---> r (medially)

b, d, g ----(4)----> p, t, k

Verner's Law Flowchart1. Is the original PIE consonant at the beginning of the word? ---(yes)---> sound stays the same ( ... )

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