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To understand Orwell's point, more context is in order. I'm leaving out most examples of Bad Writing indicators he gives which tend to be single words each. Foreign words and expressions such as ...
I find the pronunciation of Icelandic highly regular and predictable on the whole, but male patronymics continue to puzzle me. The suffix "-son" is consistently pronounced with an initial /ʃ/ rath...
The problem Currently, there are no fonts listed for languages other than English. This leads to an issue I see a lot - mixed fonts. (looking at you, Google Translate) Take a simple Japanese sent...
Should we also change the default license? If we eventually end up with some kind of community user for maintenance purposes as suggested here we might want to suggest a more open license.
I have mostly self-learned Norwegian without much emphasis on grammar. Occasionally I see expressions like "skulle gjort", sometimes with "gjort" replaced by another verb. I would expect to see the...
I sing in a choir that performs medieval and renaissance music in several languages I don't otherwise speak. When we are unclear about pronunciation, we look for recordings from reputable performe...
Proposed tagline Community resources about language and languages Proposed help text Posting Tips: Break different topics up into paragraphs. Multiple paragraphs are easier to read than a wall ...
@msh210 is correct that רכב is the more general term for all types of vehicles while אוטו refers specifically to cars. Two other terms for 'car' are רכב פרטי which means 'private vehicle' and מכוני...
First of all, vowels exist in a continuum, and that continuum is differently structured into "phonemes" in any given language. The difference between [ʌ] and [a] could be prominent for an English ...
It seems like a somewhat oxymoronic term, but I think that destí intermedi communicates the correct idea. Once I'd thought of that, I searched for prior usage: the Spanish equivalent seems to be fa...
I'll address the etymology of "negotiable" (noun), which is a shorthand for "negotiable instrument of payment", where "negotiable" is a deverbal adjective from the transitive sense of the verb "neg...
German - 63 characters Willkommen in unserer Community für Sprach- und Linguistikinteressierte! Thanks to German for allowing to cobble together words. A literal translation of it would be: ...
quibble [17] _Quibble _probably originated as a rather ponderous learned joke-word. It is derived from an earlier and now obsolete _quib _‘pun’, which appears to have been based on quibus...
Quoting from https://svenska.se/tre/?sok=ohyra&pz=1: sedan första årtiondet av 1500-talet (Helige mäns lefverne); fornsv. ohyra ’odjur; stor mängd’; urspr. ’ngt otäckt, otrevligt’ Se...
Japanese, 20 characters コディダクトの語学コミュニティにようこそ！ I'm not actually sure how "Codidact" would be converted into katakana, since nobody told me how to pronounce it.
I am reading some texts about routes for running. They explain interesting routes and allow getting the GPS track. Also, there is the option to modify the GPS track by adding waypoints. Now I wan...
English, 31 characters Hi! This site's for you if you like lingo. Notes: I consider Hi!, as an informal but not impolite greeting, to connote both the greeting and the acceptance aspects...
High Valyrian [conlang], 75 characters Va Udrirri jemī jiōri, īlva lentun mirto syt ēngos udrirī se jāhe galryr ia nūmāzme gūrēños. Literal translation back: We welcome you [pl] to Languag...
A pimple is a small theft of beauty.
I am by no means a perfect Thai speaker, but I'd probably use ไม่ ต้อง คิด แบบ X "ไม่ ต้อง" is very common for "you don't need (to)" or "one doesn't need (to)." "แบบ" works either as a noun ...
The question alludes to at least three correlated, but quite distinct dimensions. Objectivity/subjectivity Room for model's creativity (information theoretical) Crispness of the boundary betwe...
verbal nouns and gerunds This may be a case where the differences between verbal nouns and gerunds are causing some confusion. In most cases, they are somewhat interchangeable but it should be eas...
I am interested in exploring a series of prompts for a large language model which move from instructions which have a clear-cut "correct result", such as the instruction to capitalize every letter ...
An eponym is the thing after which something else is named. For example, the linguistical concept of eggcorns is named after the word eggcorn, hence the word eggcorn is the eponym of the concept. ...
The same thing can be expressed in any given language in many ways. You have not provided any source for the claim that "Kecamatan ini terdiri atas sepuluh desa." would be using the wrong word. T...
