Variety Act
It's a lot of people outside.
What is Black English / AAE?
ezerkilencszáznyolcvannégy
What is Hungarian?
n̥
What is voiceless?
Dad annoyance.
What is father-bother? [ɑ] = [ɒ]
Say this wild word 8 times in a row, and you might end up with a sentence.
What is 'buffalo'?
I drove on the 70 to St Louis.
What is Californian English?
wan tausen nain handet eiti foa
What is Tok Pisin?
kʼ
What is ejective?
Yanking a stick out of the deep end.
What is pool-pull-pole? ul = ʊl = ol
English speakers took this form of reduplication from Yiddish speakers in NYC.
What is shm- reduplication? (Joe-Shmoe)
The car needs washed.
What is the Midland Dialect?
mil nou-cent vuitanta-quatre
What is Catalan?
s̻
What is laminal?
Guadalupe is happy about her relationship becoming more serious.
What is Mary-merry-marry? [ejɹ] = [ɛɹ] = [æɹ]
The first word in an ablaut reduplication almost always contains this.
What is [ɪ]? (knick-knack, tick-tock, flip-flop, jibber-jabber, tic-tac-toe)
Might could you go to the store for me?
What is Southern / South-Midland English?
eitt tusin og níggjuhundraðogáttatifýre
What is Faroese?
e̘
What is +ATR?
A more recent scaler.
What is latter-ladder?
I don't want soy milk, I want milk milk.
What is Contrastive Focus Reduplication? (or Lexical Cloning, etc)
Things have gotten worse.
What is General American?
elf disa’ mija erbgħa u tmenin
What is Maltese?
e᷉
What is falling-rising?
Drunk and sad.
What is wine-whine? [w] = [ʍ]
The La Brea Tar Pits. The Sahara Desert. Chai Tea. Please RSVP.
What is a pleonastic compound? (Will accept tautological)