香港人 Hoeng1 Gong2 jan4 // Conlanger // 渠/其 // East Asian linguist with a penchant to wander afield
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May 17
This is a regular sound change
In Coastal Yue, MC’s TSY- and TSR- series all become *Tɕ **except** in the specific condition of *TSRI-type syllables where instead they become *Tsɿ
there are only two exceptions i've found so far, both where LMC ʂ(ɦ) > TS ɬ where we would expect s.
the exceptions are:
師 (srij /ʂij/ > lhu1) 'teacher, master'
事 (dzriH /ʂɦî/ > lhu5) 'thing, task'
not sure what's up with those but otherwise the correspondence holds!
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May 17
This distinction is lost in Cantonese but if we compare for example Nanning Baihua, a variety closely related to Cantonese:
思 sɿ55 < si
市 ʃi24 < dzyiX
師 sɿ55 < srij
Noting that MC ie, ij, i all merge into /*i/ in “Common Dialectal Chinese”
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May 17
Taishanese then underwent a backing of the apical vowel ɿ /z̩/ into u, which we can also find with 思 above: lhu1 in Taishanese
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Henry_Wong retweeted
May 10
This isn't bad because it's worse than things various Western states have done, it's bad because it is remarkably similar to policies like Canada's residential schools that most decent people now recognize as moral abominations.
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Henry_Wong retweeted
May 10
In any case, the recent discussion of Tibetan language education has been driving me crazy, so here are some key points
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May 9
Chinese poetry, a small thread 🧵
Interesting. How does that work?
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May 9
people all / raise child / expect smart
I PASS / smart / hinder entire_life
only hope / child / stupid and rough
not.have disaster / not.have hardship / arrive official
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May 9
“People all raise their children expecting (them) to be smart;
I was hindered my life by smarts;
(I) only hope that (my) child is stupid and rough;
(so that he can) become an official without trial or tribulation”
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