Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
Lizardsquid, maker of noises
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DurgyDoodleCember 26
@fluffdragom Here's Addi as she might appear on a card. It's half of a card anyway.
I also tried copying the halve to make a full one, but I didn't plan anything so things don't line up neatly.
affection
@BatElite *melty cuddles*
good night, dear ♥
Classic Doctor Who | Season 10 (death mention)
Yesterday, I watched Carnival of Monsters – it's fun, but it feels like it should do something more with the political plotline.
Today I'm going to watch Frontier in Space, which is the last story to feature Roger Delgado as the Master before his unfortunate death in an accident. He was intended to show up one last time in the next season, but this never came to be.
goooooood ɱyoɽɳiɲg
woops I spent ages working on a conlang and now it's snooze time
goodnight!
name stuff
@softgoat tbh I like "shannon c. rose". It's nice
name stuff
@softgoat roselace?
naming things is hard...
frustration, misinformation
I found a long, fascinating, and (seemingly) well researched and cited answer to a question on a forum. The person who posted it is even a Professor!
But it just so happens that I know it to be completely and utterly wrong.
affection
@unknown_user@cybre.space <3<3
the average number of segments in a language
it's important to note: this is only according to what's in phoible's database, it's not a definitive answer (especially since defining segments is.... harder than it seems)
the average number of segments in a language
I downloaded the phoible database of language inventory sizes, and wrote some code to calculate the average number of segments in a language:
35.2125
request for help
I think I can actually use phoible's database for this...
re: request for help
@violet I'm looking for something that basically says
"the average language has between 20–30 segments (depending on how you define segment)"
I just want to get a basic idea of "how many sounds an average language has"
request for help
Actually, I'm more interested in the average number of *phonemes* in a language, which should be much easier to know
request for help
I'm trying to find somewhere that will tell me the average number of segments in a language, but I can't seem to find anything.
Does anyone know of a database or resource that has an answer to this? I don't need it to be an accurate answer, but I do need it to be justified
so ['fɔɪ.bɫ] (phoible) has a list of phonetic segments (sounds) used in all the world's languages. There's approximately 2,160 segments.
1,800 of them are in less than 1% of the world's languages.
Only 19 of them are in more than 50% of languages.
re: meta, image descriptions
@chao I think the problem is that most images can be described with a sentence or a paragraph, but comics require a script, so any solution that's good for comics probably isn't so good for anything else
@Quinntessential oh dear, that's not a fun feeling...
*offers a soft thing to hug (me)*
meta, image descriptions
@chao problem with this approach: different languages do directionality differently.
so even though Japanese is often written top→bottom and left→right, you read comics from the right panel to the left panel.
So a japanese user drawing rectangles on a comic will expect the top right rectangle to be "before" the top left rectangle, whereas an english user will expect the opposite
hi I'm avery, a cute lizardsquid with 3 hearts full of love!
nonbinary ░ they/she ░ australia ░ 29yo
I post: silly lizardy nonsense, world building, conlangs, doctor who
polyam, demi, open. I love affection!
hugs and cuddles and such are ok, but everything else please ask first
languages: English • Welsh (very basic)
I have a private account, ask for access!
(some old accounts:
@gwyfyndraig
@liquid_lizsquid
)
Joined Sep 2017
