Activity for Moshi
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| Comment | Post #277304 |
I don't think it should be limited to being for language students (which I take to mean 'people learning a language'). I take the scope of the Resources section to be the same as the scope of the site: pretty much anything about languages goes. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277281 |
@Sigma I don't think there really is a consensus. On the one extreme, we could have one resource post for every language, and have headings for each topic. On the other extreme, it could be like a "community blog" where people can post any helpful articles they want and it would be organized by tags ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277298 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Why is it "pronunciation" and not "pronounciation"? A quick search gives a regular pattern in the form of trisyllabic laxing > Trisyllabic laxing, or trisyllabic shortening, is any of three processes in English in which tense vowels (long vowels or diphthongs) become lax (short monophthongs) if they are followed by two syllables the first of which ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
Whether it is meant to imply "in formal English", "in standard English", or "at all" is a bit ambiguous though. (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
It is also interesting to note that Cambridge Dictionary contradicts itself: from here: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/grammar/british-grammar/contractions
"We don’t use more than one contraction" (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
@Monica Cambridge Dictionary lists the `'d've` contraction as it's own entry: https://dictionary.cambridge.org/dictionary/english/d-ve?q=%27d%27ve
As far as I can tell, those are the only double contraction entries in those respective online dictionaries (at least, I'm not going through the entire ... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
@Monica Saw this pop up to the top again. What do you consider "formally recognizing" as normative? For example, "I'd've" is actually an entry in the Collins Dictionary: https://www.collinsdictionary.com/dictionary/english/idve (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
Wiktionary has a page for "double contractions" (contracting twice)
https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/Category:English_double_contractions
so obviously, it is considered normal (or at least common). It's even more informal than single contractions though, which makes them quite rare outside of speech.... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277095 |
Roboto Mono doesn't contain those glyphs anyway. Your computer is using an alternate font, which means that it is a font issue, but not with Roboto Mono.
Try using inspect element to figure out what font is actually loading.
EDIT:
Actually, try editing your answer. When I opened up your answer t... (more) |
— | over 4 years ago |