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Friday 335 - live from Kiribati (UTC+14:00)
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| Midlothian |
| Was Jesus woke or broke? |
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| planetaryplayer |
| Baby Jangus, son of Gord |
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| Midlothian |
| Can't believe your contributions were almost taken away from us permanently |
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| Midlothian |
| The trick is to assign one timezone each to the multiple voices in your head |
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| Silky Johnson |
| quote: | Originally posted by Zak McKracken
If humans were really clever we would invent 168 time zones so there would always be a Friday somewhere. |
Have you ever read The Little Prince? |
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| planetaryplayer |
| quote: | Originally posted by Midlothian
Can't believe your contributions were almost taken away from us permanently |
my contributions have been consistently stupid for 10 years, i wouldn't know where to get those thoughts off my head without TA |
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| SYSTEM-J |
| The first three posts in this thread made me laugh out loud not once, but twice. |
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| planetaryplayer |
| i want to work at amazon but i would get fired for ting too much |
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| Lira |
Did you know Kiribati is actually pronounced "Kiri-bass" (bass as in the fish, not the instrument)? That's because in Gilbertese, the local language, "t" becomes "s" before "i". They probably chose not to spell it with an "s" just to have a laugh at us, silly pale non-seafarers :p
Having said that, the rainy season has just begun full force here where I live, so I borrowed my rents' treadmill as I wait until I can cycle outdoors again or work out coronalessly at the gym so I don't get actual killer abs :toothless |
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| Sushipunk |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
the rainy season has just begun full force here where I live |
Same. Just got 2 months of rain in 2 days :wtf: |
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| Midlothian |
| quote: | Originally posted by Lira
Did you know Kiribati is actually pronounced "Kiri-bass" (bass as in the fish, not the instrument)? That's because in Gilbertese, the local language, "t" becomes "s" before "i". They probably chose not to spell it with an "s" just to have a laugh at us, silly pale non-seafarers :p
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Via a voiceless interdental? As an analogical formation? Also word-initial? This raises Questions. |
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| Lira |
| quote: | Originally posted by Midlothian
Via a voiceless interdental? As an analogical formation? Also word-initial? This raises Questions. |
A voiceless interdental wouldn't be impossible, but it would somewhat unusual in this context. I'd have expected an interdental fricative to arise from a broader case of lenition, not just before a high vowel. That's what happened in English and in European Spanish (where it evolved from a voiceless affricate). Also, interdentals aren't really that common in Austronesian languages (Yapese and Drehu being exceptions)... or anywhere, really.
Because it's so very specific to one restricted environment, it's more likely the result of palatalisation as it's always followed by /i/ in the North. If you compare to neighbouring languages, the pronunciation of /ti/ as [tsi] or [t͡ɕi] is much more widespread, being a more likely path to [si]. In Southern Kiribati it's spread to both high vowels, so /tu/ is pronounced [su] too.
As for whether it happens in the beginning of words, yes, apparently.
Wait, are you a linguistics student/researcher/professor? |
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