fkrintsth :-)

A few months ago, I muddled the alphabet, but I knew I could go further. Some may say that destroying the fundamentals of language is one of my strengths.
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Sources:
alic.sites.unl...
en.wikipedia.o... (Archiphonemes)
seas3.elte.hu/p... (constraints)
www.reddit.com... (Reddit discussion on most consonants in one syllable)
www.hellovaia.... (Constraints vs Restraints)
staffnew.uny.a... Basic Phonotactics Presentation with helpful charts
stephenescher.... Stephen Escher’s Conlang Phonotactics Blog
languagehat.co... “Allolex” Semantic Discussion
www.glottopedia... Intro to “Absolute Neutralization.”
bpb-us-w2.wpmu... Kessler and Teriman’s Phonotactics Study 1
spell.psycholog... Treiman et. al continued

[@LingoLizard]

Agma Schwa’s evil enthusiasm explaining his creation is priceless

[@StockhausenScores]

Nguh

[@st1220]

ŋə

[@janmusi]

hugn

[@spuriusbrocoli4701]

This is why I would lay down a salt circle to keep out phoneticists.

[@katakana1]

When you said f can't be followed by another consonant at the beginning of a syllable in English, I *_freaking flipped_* out

[@katakana1]

And when you said "t" is the only permissible plosive between "s" and "r" syllable-initially, I *_sprung_* into action

[@Webcloud]

you are killing the puns /pos

[@gcewing]

It's enough to make a person *_screech_* .

[@giuthais]

these puns are *screwing* with my head

[@killianc7356]

and also flattered

[@itryen7632]

The premier is in 27 hours but i can bet that whatever joke that he does at exactly 2:43 is gonna be hilarious

[@thezipcreator]

it actually kinda was

[@StockhausenScores]

​@@thezipcreatori loved tiduna, xalAn

[@Gamesaucer]

You've mangled the orthography beyond any legibility, and the pronunciation beyond any comprehension, but hear me out here: what about the semantics? If you wear a black shirt, you could also describe it as a dark garment, or a dim top, or something like that. But why stop there? Clothing is covering. Covering is hiding. Hiding is omitting. Dim is unintelligent. Unintelligent is dense. Dense is concentrated. So then, if you are wearing a black shirt, are you not also wearing a concentrated omission?

[@the11382]

We have: fish as ghoti, heterography, fkrintsth, and you want to obscure semantics? Pure evil.

[@BM74]

Oh ŋo, here we go agən..

[@FarzanaFathima-t4e]

o ngo

[@janmusi]

o ngo

[@thekathal]

13:19 aren't [p] and [k] both allowed too? as in spray and scrub

[@suvi7641]

spruce strews screws

[@djmcbratney]

Thank you, I paused the video to look for this comment, happy to see that it's here XD@@suvi7641 Nice! If we make the first one "sprues" (like in model kits) it's a perfect set!

[@gonkdroid4prez539]

Or: Agma Schwa slowly reinvents Dutch

[@tuxcrafting]

some people use linguistics for good, agma uses it for evil

[@onepersonintheuniverse]

0:13 frame: *exists* nguh: FRICK

[@NoriMori1992]

I'm sure it wasn't 3 in the morning for most people when this popped up in their notifications, but it was for me, and honestly I can't think of a video with better 3 am energy than this.

[@Webcloud]

i want to show this to a random person in the streets and make them explode of confusion

[@I_AM_R3D_SKY]

Wait how is this comment from one day ago when the video isnt out for one day

[@Webcloud]

@@I_AM_R3D_SKYim a sorcerer

[@zozzy4630]

"The /t/ in 'strengths' is the only permissible plosive that can exist between a /s/ and a /r/ at the onset of a syllable." I screamed when you sprung that news on me! Considering minimal pairs like stream/scream, strap/scrap, strip/scrip, straggle/scraggle, you can't make /k/ an allophone of /t/ between /s/ and /r/ on the onset. "ftrintsth" is still pretty bad though

[@AgmaSchwa]

If you re-watch what I said you’ll see that what I said was that the only consonant that can follow /st/ at the onset of a syllable is /r/. Remember the whole reason I switched /t/ to /k/ in fkrintsth was to keep the /r/. there’s no word that starts with /stl/ or /stw/ because those would violate the rules.

[@zozzy4630]

@AgmaSchwa Right, but you got the reasoning backwards. It's not that /t/ is the only permissible plosive between /s/ and /r/, but /r/ is the only permissible glide after /st/. That's why we can still understand "stwengths" as "strengths".

[@AgmaSchwa]

Well that’s what contextual neutralization is all about, it involves every sound in the syllable, “stwengths” works perfectly in my system for the exact reason you just said.

[@donovantownshend8783]

You turned English into Dutch by Making it look like Georgian

[@kornsuwin]

i'm already beyond the definition of 'terrified'

[@interbeamproductions]

corresaet*

[@prof.reuniclus21]

This is “Behold, a man!” but with English

[@Elisaisafish]

Exciting yet ominous, just like how I like it

[@kikivoorburg]

9:36 I feel like “scrumptious”could be realised as /skʰɹʌmpʃs/ in quick speech, which matches the same “sPrVN(P)Fs” pattern. I feel like the same logic can be used to make a word like “scrumptions” and claim it can be realised as /skʰɹʌmpʃns/ which would then be an English word with more consonants in one cluster? (sPrVNPFNs?) Given that “strengths” is said to be the max I’ve probably just made a mistake lol. Not a linguist or IPA expert at all, if I’ve made an error feel free to correct me! Edit: I could’ve just used assumptions instead of making up “scrumptions”, lol. Both contain the long consonant cluster /mpʃns/ at least if I’m right that we can claim that’s how it’s realised in fast speech.

[@AgmaSchwa]

Hey! If I was incorporating narrow phonetic transcriptions, this would be 100% true; since we’re basing it on phonemic transcription only, there would only be one set of diaphonemes per word except in the case of optional phonemes like the /k/ in “strengths.”

[@BryanLu0]

-tion actually forms it's own syllable Syllabic consonants to the rescue

[@nelsiren]

no way, Georgian...

[@StockhausenScores]

I've never understood the appeal of AGHMA SCHWA!

[@shatteredreality_513]

I'm only taking an intro class in linguistics right now, but I _so desperately_ want to register for an advanced course and show my classmates this video to fill their hearts with sheer terror at the power they could possibly hold if they learn your craft. 👍😁🌼💖

[@SillyLittleTree]

what the ✨️fuck✨️ hath I just beheld

[@realnamefakename]

Do I even want to know.

[@gibbous_silver]

I know i want to know

[@Denneth_D.]

Georgian but extra complex

[@StockhausenScores]

Allophones, ​@@Denneth_D., Allophones!

[@table5584]

Ithkuil dialect

[@artifactU]

ŋo

[@CYXXYC]

"you dont see F followed by another consonant at the beginning of a syllable" bro there is dozens of words i can list as an example to disprove this lmao

[@the11382]

This is the phonemic counterpart to spelling fish as ghoti.

[@Ralzone]

I don't understand anything my brains hurts this is too much knowledge please help me

[@branchgames180]

Hi. You don't know me, but I watch the youtubes. I tried my hand at conlangin' back in 19', but I do not have time. I made first draft in paint, but can't post in r/conlang because it against rules :´( Do you want/know person who want to pick up cursed conlang idea? Send massage back (pun). Your friend, Branch

[@politian32]

What

[@SurfTheSkyline]

I suppose some people in here need to have it be laid out as F can't be followed by non-liquid consonants to start a syllable.

[@AgmaSchwa]

I think they may not have watched past the first couple minutes, haha

[@YEWCHENGYINMoe]

axma ʃwa

[@holdingpattern245]

I was recently working on an English syllabary concept (you'd be surprised how much simpler it becomes if you factor out -s and -ed suffixes, the only unambiguous three-consonant cluster found in a single syllable is 'xt' as in 'text') and it strikes me that I was using the same methods that you are, but to nearly opposite ends.

[@greenkitty1]

Lamgauagre

[@I_AM_R3D_SKY]

I thought it was a video about the first words of babys 😅

[@Denneth_D.]

Babys sounds like an abyss for children

[@misterhydra7285]

This feels like an unspeakable evil

[@thezipcreator]

oh god what is this

[@Denneth_D.]

Do you mean Tolkien. *Says the darwinist*

[@NoriMori1992]

36:37 You will be happy to know that I am indeed as confused as you are.

[@moldy900]

nguh what did you do

[@samkimber6747]

He put Wave Function Collapse in linguistics

[@alexciorita8402]

dude you're a genius but WHAT THE HELL is up with the background music? i'm all for mindless entertainment but not on linguistic videos where i need to hear every sound crystal clear

[@UhOhItsDorian]

Thank you once again Mr Schwa for taking another step toward completely jpg artifact frying the English language. This is absolutely supervillain behaviour but I think targeting English is actually a noble application of it

[@rnifnuf]

Honestly, I kinda want to see the alternate universe where this video's title is "[xtwɑmpʃf] :D"

[@calebbrown7025]

Man just said that you can’t have f then consonants, then just says “friends” later

[@JohnSmith-of2gu]

When one or two words in a sentence get destroyed like this you can still sorta understand, but when you do the WHOLE phrase I'm pretty sure most people could not figure out what it was supposed to be. This really is broken English.

[@BryanLu0]

tsth is such a cursed combination

[@stellarx20]

Wow, cool! I'm here before 1k views! ok this comment sounds really useless lol sorry, was also saying the video itself was cool

[@deathpigeon2]

We've heard of archiphonemes before in the context of phonemic analysis of japanese where /N/ and /Q/ are the archiphonemes of the moraic nasal (which has a complicated realization) and gemination respectively. For example, 合戦 (kassen) is often phonemically analyzed as /kaQ.seN/. This allows for the gemination to act as a phoneme which makes some analyses of the language to be similar and it allows for underspecifying the moraic nasal because, as stated earlier, it has a complicated realization (which is only sometimes a consonant) and it's easier in most circumstances to just not think about it. The 'just don't think about it' element to the moraic nasal is reflected in most phonetic orthographies where it's 'ん' or 'ン' or 'n' or the like without any differentiation to denote that, for example, in '先輩' (senpai) the moraic nasal (because it's followed by a /p/) is actually pronounced as [m] and that, in '日本' (nihon) the moraic nasal is actually pronounced as some sort of nasalized vowel which is broadly transcribed as [ɰ̃] as an ad hoc semivocalic notation which isn't really reflective exactly of anyone's actual realization if it is the final word in the utterance or if the next word starts with a vowel, a liquid (usually), or a fricative or as various other nasals determined through assimilation with the place of articulation for the following consonant. (This is why it's easier to just not think about it and transcribe it simply as /N/.)

[@JSG4361]

i love that monitor

[@AlbySilly]

I'd convert run into yong (pronounced like Yes mOOn luNG)

[@Denneth_D.]

34:04 must know the following (I can’t be bothered to rememba the Heterography letters)

[@st1220]

þis is beautiful

[@kahwigulum]

"whats death?" i'm glad you asked. kzbin.info/www/bejne/Z6Ole35joJiphqc

[@PWXKN]

21:01 bro jumpscared me with that cog building elevator music holy shit

[@wumbus1787]

waowww..,.. new nguh :O

[@benruniko]

But seriously thank you for being the best entertainment in this niche. God i love it

[@Rorosaeed691]

Hello Agma can I ask you question if you would please be?

[@NewMCMikeProductionsYT]

I want you to make a conlang for austrians so that they don't have to speak german

[@Levi_OP]

wouldn't you invest a few dollars in a shotgun mic or a lapel please

[@michellenuccio]

I MADE MY OWN CONLANG, IT'S CALLED ''PITH'M'' AND HELLO IS ''NGUH''

[@BaraKajtar]

Nasal consonants are vowels. Change my mind

[@st1220]

21:48 nom chomsky mentioned

[@moreydumo5925]

Manual

[@StarGarnet03]

congrats, you just invented simlish

[@scaacacsc]

this is the spoken version of ghoti

[@thatotherted3555]

Where would we be without good ol' Chad Jeepy-T

[@deamichaelis1]

Is this just how dialects form?🧐

[@Her-sf3kj]

consonant clusters!yaa

[@longschlongsilver7628]

3:30 similarly, you can say [ai]ther, but you have to say the vowel completely. You can't just stop in the middle with [a]ther and drop the [i] because most people will think you're saying other

[@aww.funvids7589]

Proxineutrolexes? Paleoneutrolexes? Neutrolexes?

[@enuma-elise]

Your enthusiasm is contagious. Watching this at work in my break and you made my day

[@ataraxianAscendant]

this is the type of video that would be played in a saw trap

[@gcewing]

Are e-lips what an AI voice has?

[@YEWCHENGYINMoe]

7h ago

[@lapiscarrot3557]

9:57 no way he said the thing he said NGUH

[@fibonacci8]

This sounds suspiciously like ghoti.

[@menyatarigeny6833]

he's just created actual enchanting table speech

[@floot2sussy]

Wait is this an advanced version of ghoti

[@benruniko]

I love it! I am ready to suffer!!!!!

[@filipinojalapeno1527]

0:13 any word with onset fl- or fl-

[@dbneptune]

froth???

[@kthelemon]

2:43 is peak comedy

[@quarksquare]

what did you do.

[@vrixphillips]

kiss me you chaos goblin

[@sirlancelot9570]

What is going on

[@troyhepler4330]

does the word fy count

[@StockhausenScores]

Æconomics Aternal

[@KatzRool]

ngew nguh

[@J3Puffin]

…I got 26 minutes in and said out loud “Agma Schwa you monster” so mission accomplished I guess?

[@producivitytime]

cool video edne throo

[@CharlieCGofficial]

Wgar

[@drdca8263]

I prefer that the character “#” be described as “hash mark” (or any of the other older names for it, e.g. “number sign”, “pound symbol”, etc.), rather than “hashtag”, as I prefer that “hashtag” be used exclusively to refer to a tag that begins with a hash mark. Even “hashtag symbol” to refer to “#” would be acceptable. If you called it a “hashtag” as an act of mild trolling, then, well-done I suppose.

[@greenkitty1]

🤓

[@drdca8263]

@@greenkitty1 You realize that you are on a video about weird linguistics stuff, right?

[@djungelskog132]

Yeassss

[@junodoesworldbuilding2956]

>:3

[@greenkitty1]

18:26 bros taking the absolute value of these phonetics

[@aro4cinglife]

I got distracetd and zoned out halfway reading the memes on the screen also, nice piano keyboard, when was the last time you used it?

[@AgmaSchwa]

I use it all the time actually, most recently to make the song for this video! It’s an Alesis 88 I think

[@RobertGrif]

My brain hurts in the best possible way

[@jericsaeyoung69]

Someone mashed da keyboard

[@ovrair6340]

... you scare me sometimes

[@ccboio]

dammit missed the premiere

[@RadeonVega64]

real

[@Jpteryx]

/fl/ in fly /fr/ in fry /fj/ in fury /fw/ sounds possible though I can't think of any word I've heard that starts with it

[@Denneth_D.]

Fwonnel.

[@the-bruh.cum5]

Btw where I live people say [ʃtɹiŋkθs] which is with an /ɪ/ vowel.