the place needs less white people, please move out British scum.

Let's learn about Newspeak

It is unfortunate there was not more development, I like the sound of the Protoss language.

I found an archive of some papers on spoken English and when doing some googling.

http://www.haskins.yale.edu/Reprints/HL0026.pdf
Just change the "26" if you want to stumble upon a different paper. HL0026 is about pitch accents in English.

I hope someone finds this cache of studies as interesting as I have.

/jp/ sent me here. Not sure which will answer it better.
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I have recently began to study linguistics, and I know a little about Vocaloids. I know they use a human-created database of different phonemes, and use combinations of those phonemes to emulate human singing. Some Vocaloids like Miku and GUMI can sing in Japanese, and some like Luka can sing in English as well.

What my question is, is: what is preventing the voice "actors" for Vocaloids to simply make all the phonemes in the International Phonetic Alphabet, therefore making them theoretically capable of singing in any language? Is there some sort of software limitation besides just the phonetic database? I wouldn't know if there was; I've never used the software.

I looked around and all I could find was a page on the Vocaloid wiki about phonetics, with no real tie-in to how it's implemented into the Vocaloid software: http://vocaloid.wikia.com/wiki/Phonology_and_Phonetics_for_Vocaloid_users

How hard is it to learn Japanese? I'm in my late 20's and I'm reasonably smart. If I committed an hour or two per day to learning weeaboo-speak and moonrunes via a program or instructional guide/video, how long am I looking at until I start to understand/get the gist of a decent amount of sentences?

I've delved a little bit and I know some basics and some hiragana, but I'm nowhere near even broken Japanese.

Can anyone with some experience in this provide some insight please?

Does anyone have any suggestions for learning Japanese, outside of actually paying a tutor or taking a class? In other words, software?

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I am working on submitting a paper, having a minor grammar struggle here.

"We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

Should it be: "We can determine whether instances are co-resident in under 10 seconds and in as few as 2.5 seconds for a given probe."

(Added an 'in' after the 'and').

Thanks.

I know someone who has lived in Hong Kong all their life(though their family is from the Philippines), and they have an interesting English accent. When I first heard them speak, I thought they were American. My question is, why do they have a rhotic accent, and not use received pronunciation? Is this actually common in Hong Kong?