The Atoz Game (Part 1)

Little_Nemo · March 17, 2021, 1:24am

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law

I’ll admit I don’t really understand the term. It appears to describe a pattern of how consonants are pronounced in some languages, including Kwanyama.

SCAdian · March 17, 2021, 2:08am

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial

Bayaker · March 17, 2021, 10:29am

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy

Rebo · March 17, 2021, 11:37am

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal

Intergalactic_Gladiator · March 17, 2021, 2:12pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia

Little_Nemo · March 17, 2021, 2:47pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin

Prof.Pepperwinkle · March 17, 2021, 3:10pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics

The_Stainless_Steel_Rat · March 17, 2021, 3:43pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric

Elendil_s_Heir · March 17, 2021, 4:21pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech

Rebo · March 17, 2021, 8:24pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus

Little_Nemo · March 17, 2021, 10:39pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut

Or Ümlät

The_Stainless_Steel_Rat · March 17, 2021, 11:04pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut (Or Ümlät)
Vocabulary

Prof.Pepperwinkle · March 17, 2021, 11:23pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut (Or Ümlät)
Vocabulary
Weasel words

Little_Nemo · March 17, 2021, 11:56pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut
Vocabulary
Weasel words
Xenogram

Applying the rules of one language on a different language. Like the rule about not ending a sentence with a preposition; this is good grammar in Latin but there’s no reason for this rule in English.

Elendil_s_Heir · March 18, 2021, 5:37pm

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut
Vocabulary
Weasel words
Xenogram
Yooper

gkster · March 19, 2021, 5:06am

Language & Linguistics

Alphabet
Brogue
Cadence
Dialect
Esperanto
Fricative
Glottal stop
Heterograph
Ideogram
Jargon
Kwanyama Law
Labial
Metonymy
Nasal
Onomatopoeia
Pidgin
Quantum linguistics
Rhetoric
Speech
Thesaurus
Umlaut
Vocabulary
Weasel words
Xenogram
Yooper
Zellig Harris

If Noam Chomsky is “the father of modern linguistics”, then Harris, his mentor, could be the grandfather.