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- 04 Oct 2015 23:10
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic Conciseness
- Replies: 8
- Views: 2760
Re: Linguistic Conciseness
There tends to be an inverse relationship between 'information per syllable' and 'rate at which syllables are produced'. So it's likely that in mohawk less time is spent on each syllable than is on them in English or French. This compounded with the small amount of phonemes available for use makes t...
- 03 Oct 2015 23:10
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Conlang word easter eggs?
- Replies: 133
- Views: 36785
Re: Conlang word easter eggs?
I have a habit of making the words for 'eat' in my conlangs some variation of (om)nom
- 03 Oct 2015 06:07
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1022527
Re: Language practice thread
It's not that unusual here to use the word 'school' to refer to all levels of education, including college.loglorn wrote:小さい問題だ。大学を 'school'に二回訳した。大学の意味は通常に'university/college'だ。そういう意味は正しい?
Just a small question, you translated 大学 as school twice. 大学 normally means 'university/college'. Is that what you mean?
- 03 Oct 2015 01:04
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1022527
Re: Language practice thread
私は大学で日本語を習っている。 watashi wa daigaku de nihongo o naratte iru. I'm learning Japanese in school. Es muy divertido! [:D] It's so fun! Das ist ausgezeichnet! Ich hoffe, dass du fortsetzt, viel Spaß zu haben! That's awesome! I hope you continue having a lot of fun! Gracias (: thank you. 自転車で大学に行いった。 jite...
- 01 Oct 2015 22:51
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1022527
Re: Language practice thread
私は大学で日本語を習っている。
watashi wa daigaku de nihongo o naratte iru.
I'm learning Japanese in school.
Es muy divertido!
It's so fun!
watashi wa daigaku de nihongo o naratte iru.
I'm learning Japanese in school.
Es muy divertido!
It's so fun!
- 29 Sep 2015 22:28
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1337301
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
OK, are there languages where meanings covered by discourse markers or modal particles get glommed onto verbs as affixes? I'm wondering because both of those things start out as adverbs, and many affixes in some languages also seem to start out as adverbs that have been incorporated into verbs. I c...
- 20 Sep 2015 00:34
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here [2010-2019]
- Replies: 7086
- Views: 1337301
Re: (L&N) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
Hoskh you may want to look into Georgian, it has a system somewhat like that.
- 10 Sep 2015 03:29
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 89736
Re: Linguistic pet peeves
If the goal is to cut off at the pass exotic-East-inspired misconceptions of Chinese that "'so many' have [retold] before at 'every other website'" where funfacts reside, I think one's energies and arguments would be better directed at such websites when such misconceptions occur. As no o...
- 10 Sep 2015 02:26
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1022527
Re: Language practice thread
¿Hay un tipo particular de cerveza que te gusta? Is there a particular kind of beer you like? Je n'ai pas bu beaucoup de sortes de bière; mon expérience a été principalement avec l'alcool plus fort. J'aime le whisky. I haven't had many kinds of beer; my experience has mostly been with stronger drin...
- 09 Sep 2015 04:12
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 89736
Re: Linguistic pet peeves
Considering that the original point was "other languages have more homophones than English", yeah a poem from an older version of a language certainly does count. But, even that isn't really important since modern Chinese also has a buttload of homophones (something that is minorly amelio...
- 09 Sep 2015 03:24
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Linguistic pet peeves
- Replies: 338
- Views: 89736
Re: Linguistic pet peeves
I suppose if there is a passive-agressive argument taking place here, I imagine that it's due to a peculiarity of the Chinese writing system which allows one to use classical Chinese grammar and vocabulary with modern pronunciations. Since this unnatural combination of classical grammar and modern ...
- 07 Sep 2015 04:23
- Forum: Language Learning & Non-English
- Topic: Language practice thread
- Replies: 6104
- Views: 1022527
Re: Language practice thread
Je parlerais le chinois ici, mais je ne pense pas assez de lui. I would speak Chinese here, but I don't know enough of it. Ayant parlé ça, je peux dire quelques choses (inutiles)... Having said that, I can say a few (useless) things... 你好。我爱啤酒。我不在跳舞。牛奶是白色的。 Nǐ hǎo. Wǒ ài píjiǔ. Wǒ bùzài tiàowǔ. Niú...
- 06 Sep 2015 21:22
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
- Replies: 95
- Views: 24283
- 06 Sep 2015 20:36
- Forum: Conlangs
- Topic: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread [2011–2018]
- Replies: 5100
- Views: 1052263
Re: Random phonology/phonemic inventory thread
Hawaiian and several languages of south america have /h/ as their only fricative. Also Cèmuhî's only fricatives are /h hʷ/.HoskhMatriarch wrote: I think it's a universal that there has to be other fricatives to have [h],
- 06 Sep 2015 03:20
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
- Replies: 95
- Views: 24283
Re: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
Yes, of course science is very similar to a religion: like a religion, it is a complex of rituals and ethical commandments. Similar but not the same. Don't all philosophies have ethical commandments? There are moral anti-realists of all kinds in philosophy, so apparently not. I'm skeptical sometime...
- 05 Sep 2015 16:42
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orthographic quirks in natlangs
- Replies: 127
- Views: 28456
Re: Orthographic quirks in natlangs
Unless you meant "why does it matter if they have different vowels" instead of "what are the two different vowels". That would be a silly question to ask, because it makes total sense that if mow and mountain are spelled differently and have different vowels, it may just be that...
- 05 Sep 2015 05:03
- Forum: Linguistics & Natlangs
- Topic: Orthographic quirks in natlangs
- Replies: 127
- Views: 28456
Re: Orthographic quirks in natlangs
mow and mountain have different vowel qualities so that's a bad example.
- 03 Sep 2015 02:22
- Forum: Conworlds & Concultures
- Topic: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
- Replies: 1944
- Views: 670465
Re: (C&C) Q&A Thread - Quick questions go here
No, they aren't considered to be mixed languages, because they aren't mixed languages. But Keenir is right, it would be pretty easy for that to happen with some cultural hullabaloo going on, like increased national pride, or isolationism, or whatever.
- 02 Sep 2015 00:20
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
- Replies: 95
- Views: 24283
Re: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
It's not a minor point at all, cntrational, it's one of the most bizarre and worrying things that I've ever heard come from more than one person. But you haven't explained anything at all. I want to know how you could possibly manage to derive from scientific claims alone a set of normative proposit...
- 02 Sep 2015 00:08
- Forum: Teach & Share
- Topic: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
- Replies: 95
- Views: 24283
Re: A badly written introduction to the scientific method
postpositivism is a kind of empiricism.