Lizardsquid, maker of noises @lizardsquid@computerfairi.es

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!

naming things is hard...

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.

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)

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

I think I can actually use phoible's database for this...

Actually, I'm more interested in the average number of *phonemes* in a language, which should be much easier to know

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.

https://phoible.org/parameters

goodnyight~

I played it for a while.

It was good, but not the kind of game I can focus on for more than an hour before I get drained.

"hey babe, are you an early communist who's come down from heaven? Because you look like an engel~"

oh my gosh it's been months since I had wasabi peas.

they're so hecking good

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