Activity for Moshiâ€
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
Rather than the etymology questions being too rampant, I feel that the main problem is that there is no activity in other fields. If, say, we ignore the etymology questions, then the last activity here was almost a month ago. Clearly something has to be done to increase participation in other fields,... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #285121 |
For now, I have featured the etymology resource for visibility. I hope that it will encourage users to look through there and expand it. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284291 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284466 |
What would be the difference from just up and down voting? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #284296 |
We had some discussion [a long while back](https://languages.codidact.com/posts/279346) about the differences between questions about *language* (language learners stuff, word requests, the whole shebang - stuff that would be on topic on SE's language specific sites) and *linguistics*. It's a really ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284459 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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Reactions are here! Suggestions? Reactions are officially here! Reactions are another way for the community to give feedback on a post; for more information, see this Meta post. I've disabled the default "Works for me", "Outdated", and "Dangerous" reactions for now, since I don't feel like they work well for this community. Th... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279462 | Nominated for promotion | — | over 2 years ago |
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| Comment | Post #284291 |
"Running too hard." doesn't have a verb in it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282717 |
> "Have you eaten it?" would only be present perfect tense when referring to the experience of having eaten something
@#54189 "Have you eaten it?" is present perfect tense, because that is the grammatical category it falls into. While I don't disagree that it can sometimes be used interchangeably ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282717 |
@#54189 Isn't that just the normal usage of the present perfect, and not especially unique to 'have'? Or am I misunderstanding something. We can do the same for say, 'eat', e.g. "Have you eaten it?" (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284305 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Which phrase is correct? (Is using plural form for singular object make sense?) (Does using plural form for singular object make sense?) Do Support Let's see exactly where the sentence comes from. There are two processes going on here, "do support" and "inversion". The full, standard non-question sentence is, of course, "Using the plural form for a singular object makes sense." In "title-ese", of course, we tend to drop such thi... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282717 |
@#54189 I'm not sure what you mean by that. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #284164 |
Post edited: Some grammatical fixes (mostly verb agreement) |
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| Edit | Post #284168 |
Post edited: Thanks to Jirka Hanika for the Shakespeare reference |
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| Edit | Post #284168 | Initial revision | — | over 2 years ago |
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A: Does using plural form for singular object make sense? One misconception: They/them has not been strictly plural for quite a long time. Even Shakespeare used it. > There's not a man I meet but doth salute me / as if I were their well-acquainted friend (From Shakespeare's The Comedy of Errors, written sometime around the late sixteenth century) U... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283427 |
Unfortunately, I do not know either of those languages, but it suggests that it's one of the languages that use the Persian script. Perhaps you could find a Persian or Urdu-literate person to verify this conjecture? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #283363 |
I'm seeing them correctly highlighted. Could you share some more information? (more) |
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| Comment | Post #282933 |
While this might be interesting as a trivia question, it doesn't really have anything to do with the languages themselves. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282933 | Question closed | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282769 |
Grammatically, "Had I had it?" is just the question form of "I had had it." which is just the past perfect. I don't think this is common though, since most would ask "Have I had it?" (disregarding the inherent awkwardness in asking something about yourself.)
One *very* common usage of "Had I had ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #282717 | Initial revision | — | almost 3 years ago |
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A: What should I use instead of `have` in present perfect tense? It's built just like the normal present perfect. > I have had it. > Have you had it? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281765 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282377 |
"I'll analogize Chinese, Japanese, Korean to Latin and Latin's devolution into the Romance Languages. Where does my analogy fail? Korea and Japan adopted Chinese, the Chinese writing system, and culture. [...] Similarly, Western Europe adopted Latin, the Latin writing system, and Roman culture."
T... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281502 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281981 |
Post edited: Small grammar fixes |
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| Comment | Post #281780 |
"Well, if you ask someone to pronounce a bare consonant for you, they can't." Is that so? I can think of at least some consonants that I can pronounce without a vowel (e.g. n, m, s) (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #281765 | Nominated for promotion | — | almost 3 years ago |
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Post edited: Removed code formatting |
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