Activity for Moshi
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #280844 |
@fedorqui I don't see why we can't have both - the same rules would apply to an English -> English "translation" golf challenge. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280844 |
Since the site pretty much died for a week, this seem like the best way to get some more interest. I've already drafted the first translation golf post, I just need an idea for what the source text should be. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280275 |
@curiousdannii https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/1047/which-is-correct-you-and-i-or-you-and-me None of the examples should use "me", *that* would be ungrammatical. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280645 |
Agree with everything except the "host on Meta" part - Q&A would make it more visible, so I think we should start there (and hey, if they check out the other Q&A category questions, all the better) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@JirkaHanika I didn't get your mention (probably since there was a comma at the end of it). Personally, I think putting it in the main Q&A is fine for now (and we get more visibility). If it's popular, we can always move it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@fedorqui I can't get in contact with Hanika, so I'm going to just give the go-ahead myself. Feel free to do it when you want to (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
Looks fun - if the other mod (Hanika) is good with it too, and we get some more interest, feel free to post a first challenge in Q&A (we can always create the category later if it gets popular) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
An interesting concept. Could you link some of those posts so we can get a better picture of what it's about? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279738 |
@curiousdannii English doesn't have an *inflection* for the future tense, but it can definitely express the future (using the auxiliary verb 'will'). If you read the question, you would see that that is what the asker is asking about - why not use the 'will' construction? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
Pinned this so that more people will see it; we still haven't come to a consensus yet (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279738 |
Taken even another way, "If you'll be around tomorrow" sounds like "If you plan to be around tomorrow" while "If you are around tomorrow" sounds like "If you happen to be around tomorrow". (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279738 |
@msh210 Then just a regular explanation? It's that way because "when" refers to the time the action takes place. If you say "I'll eat when I'll be hungry", it means you will eat at the time when being hungry is still in the future (which doesn't really make sense). Taken another way, "present" is rel... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279738 |
Are you asking for some sort of intuitive explanation (beyond an answer just saying "That's how English grammar is"?) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@JirkaHanika We can move posts between categories. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279453 |
@curiousdannii It's just a small thing we can do, and I don't see any reason *not* to have this. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@JirkaHanika I'm still opposed to splitting them. We still haven't decided on a meaningful definition of 'linguistics' yet (i.e. one where we can confidently say "This question goes here, this question goes there?) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@JirkaHanika actually, we can share tags between categories, it's not a big deal (and we already share tags between Resources and Q&A). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Conrado It's fine, you're not being troublesome at all. On the other hand, therein lies the heart of the issue - dannii has a sole interest in "linguistics", but there is no well-defined boundary between linguistics and related fields. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Conrado I'm uncertain what you mean by that. Questions on etymology are accepted here. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
@JirkaHanika Not everyone has Noto Sans installed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279334 |
@msh210 support for "The expression "son of a gun' is an euphemism for 'son of a b*tch'": Merriam-Webster (https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/son%20of%20a%20gun) Cambridge dictionary (https://dictionary.cambridge.org/us/dictionary/english/son-of-a-gun) Collins dictionary (https://www.collinsd... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279310 |
Small thought: If the third-gender pronouns were fully incorporated, they wouldn't be *neo*pronouns, would they? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279109 |
@curiousdannii That's up to the asker to decide, not us. Quote an answer there as an answer here if you feel it's good. We also have no policy forbidding reasking questions asked on other sites. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279244 |
I guess I'll accept this nomination. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
@MonicaCellio, ah, is that so? That's unfortunate (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
@JirkaHanika You've been nominated :) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
@manassehktz works fine with me, I'm just concerned about server load since, yn, we'll be serving moe stuff. Might not be too bad though if we @font-face it and make sure to only load fonts used on the page since most questions won't be more than one other language. If we decide to do that for a scri... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
@manassehkatz Android is weird. Apparently, there are only a few fonts installed system-wide: Droid Sans, Droid Serif, and Droid Sans Mono, and Roboto (Android 4+). **However**, applications (including browsers) can install their own fonts (for their own use, not system-wide). Which means we can't re... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
@manassehkatz This post was itself sort of a draft, thanks for reminding me of those systems. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279109 |
Do you mind if I do some edits to simplify the language in your question? (I had to look up what 'signification' meant, and I'm a native speaker...) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279056 |
@DonielF ah, i didn't realize it was related to Judaism. Which reminds me, the Judaism community's weekly challenge is on the Hebrew alphabet... :) Perhaps you could ask a question there about what these timeline conflicts mean. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278930 |
@fedorqui forgot to ask you this but could you edit your post and change your use of "categories" to the proper tag nomenclature? Just in case anyone gets confused after stumbling upon this. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279056 |
@DonielF What is this Gemara, and when was this Sinai that you mention? (I'm not a scholar of Hebrew). According to a comment by Christopher Ray Miller, the adoption of the final forms was sometime around the 5th century BCE. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279045 |
There's no real way to show steps taken to equate "the better to ..." and "so as to ... better", since the construction isn't easily generalized - for example, "the faster to run" or "the bigger to grow" doesn't really sound natural (edited since my original examples were bad) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278906 |
@user8078 I can only guess at their methods. Perhaps the structure of the word קנז was the same as the way a profession word was formed (eg. in English, even if you didn't know "hunt" you could still see that "hunt" is a root of "hunter" off the bat). Perhaps there are archaic words with the same roo... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278906 |
@user8078 I'm not sure what you're asking for. It would be the other way around, קנז is (in theory) derived from an unused root that means hunt. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277080 |
For your example I would suggest it being in Rigorous Science on SciSpec (which is basically our worldbuilding site), since it's much more about the building than about the theory. This is especially because the conlang is likely not going to match any case system in real languages. On the other hand... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278802 |
@Lundin it's not the source of the -i demonymic suffix though (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278797 |
@MonicaCellio In that case, the name for the country was formed from the name of the people, Latin "Germania" (land of the Germans) -> "Germany" (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278773 |
@Peter not at the moment. Just repost the question there and link here to the other one. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278652 |
Also, you picked the wrong form after your edit. ない**の**です would be situational. (it's also not a conjugation in the strict sense but that's tangential) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278652 |
@Razetime As I said in my original post, ～ないです is ～ない + です, it's not a special form of it's own. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278652 |
Also, on Yin's blog, look under "Negative Form". ~ない form is there. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278652 |
You misquoted the Quora answer (though thanks for the link anyway). That page doesn't say anythI g about ないですbeing explanatory. (のです is what makes it an explanation). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278583 |
I'm not sure that classifiers are what the question asker was looking for. While I can't say that I actually know what they're asking (and I know no Thai at all), the way it's phrased makes it sound like they are asking for either a question particle or an interrogative pronoun. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278403 |
While the article is really interesting in its own right, I don't think this answers my question. My question was about the origin of the 'masu' form, which the article doesn't touch upon (the verb forms it does touch upon are simply the usual "make the sentence more verbose" form of polite speech, r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278403 |
Could you provide some links to that research? I tried searching but only manages to find sites for the usage of keigo, not its history. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278158 |
@MonicaCellio Ah, I see. While it might be a "don't do it" as a recommendation, there's no grammar rule against having differing plurality between the primary and subordinate clauses. I've edited my answer. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278150 |
@msh210 If you're asking that, why not ask about the *petty bourgeois* or *mad dog*? Those are also phrases without a specific idiomatic meaning. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277352 |
@ArtOfCode besides, it's not like we can't just make a tool for people to set the language of some text. Judaism has Sefaria (though I haven't used it) and SciSpec has LaTeX, I don't see what would be difficult about it. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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