thats a word, huh?

well i certainly havent heard it before

Probably what *this* should be called.
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Post by Skeletor » Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:39 pm

i also found a lot of words that are like... yeah that's a real word in the middle that i know, and those are some legit prefixes/suffixes, and i know exactly what this word would mean if it's considered a real word. but i'm not sure if it is
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Feb 11, 2022 7:41 pm

like, impish is a word, i know that. impishly, definitely a word, you can smile impishly. so then, is nonimpishly a word? i know what it means but i don't know if it'll count
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Post by Rylinks » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:24 pm

as i am a native english speaker, everything i think is a word is in fact a word

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Post by Skeletor » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:27 pm

if you don't agree you're a filthy prescriptiver
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Post by Rylinks » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:32 pm

i couldn't begremble more, skeletor

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Post by Doug » Fri Feb 11, 2022 8:39 pm

I had this game a long time ago called Balderdash where there would be cards with fake words and real words, and the players had to guess which words were real and which were fake
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Post by Crunchums » Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:34 pm

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Post by Skeletor » Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:39 pm

gah, the tag
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Post by Ashenai » Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:40 pm

:morph:

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Post by Crunchums » Sat Mar 05, 2022 4:46 pm

logy
"dull and heavy in motion or thought; sluggish."

so once upon a time someone was like "you're so logy today"
and people were like wtf, "logy" ?
"yeah you know, like a log"
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Post by Ashenai » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:33 am

fitch

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Post by Luna » Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:44 am

litch

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Post by Crunchums » Fri Jun 10, 2022 2:06 pm

Luna wrote:litch
take it to the "not a word" thread :colbert:
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Post by KingRamz » Fri Jun 10, 2022 2:21 pm

Ashenai wrote: Fri Jun 10, 2022 6:33 amfitch
Ikr

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Post by Ashenai » Fri Jul 29, 2022 3:56 am

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Post by Crunchums » Fri Jul 29, 2022 4:24 am

Ashenai wrote:necrobotic
puts https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vCadcBR95oU in my head for some reason
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Post by Blissful » Fri Jul 29, 2022 1:25 pm

Skeletor wrote: Mon Feb 28, 2022 9:39 pmgah, the tag
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Post by Crunchums » Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:03 am

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Post by Blissful » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:21 am

Crunchums wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:03 amplosive
googled this one and then had some fun making various mouth sounds
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Post by Blissful » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:21 am

Crunchums wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 3:03 amplosive
googled this one and then had some fun making various mouth sounds
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Post by Skeletor » Tue Oct 04, 2022 4:56 pm

googled this one and then had some fun making various mouth sounds
wow, [you]. that all sounds terrible. i hope it gets better for you

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Post by Crunchums » Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:20 pm

i learned about that word because it was in that tom cardy party dog song
but my girlfriend was a linguistics major and the other day we were talking about aspirated vs. non-aspirated things
it's a really weird feeling to try to make sounds that you're not used to making, like a non-aspirated T, which i figured out how to do with the help of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7szkN4QcxI
it ends up sounding like a d but i don't think it's the same as a d (because your tongue is doing something differently?)
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Post by pterrus » Tue Apr 04, 2023 9:31 pm

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Post by Ashenai » Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:05 pm

Crunchums wrote: Tue Oct 04, 2022 5:20 pm i learned about that word because it was in that tom cardy party dog song
but my girlfriend was a linguistics major and the other day we were talking about aspirated vs. non-aspirated things
it's a really weird feeling to try to make sounds that you're not used to making, like a non-aspirated T, which i figured out how to do with the help of this video https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B7szkN4QcxI
it ends up sounding like a d but i don't think it's the same as a d (because your tongue is doing something differently?)
The difference between t and d is not aspiration (whether you blow air out), it's voicing (whether you engage your vocal cords)

for example, a whispered "d" is essentially indistinguishable from a whispered "t", because whispering makes everything nonvoiced.

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Post by Doug » Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:06 pm

Does what you're talking about have anything to do with registers, as in the whistle register, the falsetto register, the modal (normal) register, and the bizarre "vocal fry" register
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Post by Ashenai » Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:09 pm

You can easily check if you're voicing by putting a finger on your throat. If you feel vibration, it's a voiced sound, if not, it's not.

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Post by Ashenai » Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:12 pm

Doug wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:06 pm Does what you're talking about have anything to do with registers, as in the whistle register, the falsetto register, the modal (normal) register, and the bizarre "vocal fry" register
I don't think so, registers are always (?) voiced. The difference between registers is not voicing, it's obstructing the sound in various ways by tensing your throat muscles, glottis etc.

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Post by Dantes » Wed Apr 05, 2023 8:00 pm

Ashenai wrote: Wed Apr 05, 2023 7:09 pm You can easily check if you're voicing by putting a finger on your throat. If you feel vibration, it's a voiced sound, if not, it's not.
Just don't put your finger through your throat. That would be bad.
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Post by Crunchums » Mon May 08, 2023 10:18 pm

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