Activity for Moshi
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278802 |
@Lundin it's not the source of the -i demonymic suffix though (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278802 |
Post edited: removed Israelian/Israeli from comparisons, since Israelian is substandard |
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| Edit | Post #278802 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278802 |
Post edited: Table doesn't work so I reformatted it |
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| Edit | Post #278802 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Why are there different suffixes for people of different countries in English? tl;dr, English just borrowed other languages' suffixes I shouldn't really come as too much of a surprise to know that the irregularity comes from borrowing endings from multiple different languages at different times. From this article on linglish.net, these are the origins of the primary suffixes... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278773 |
@Peter not at the moment. Just repost the question there and link here to the other one. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278691 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: ～ません versus ～ないです After researching a bit more, I found this StackExchange answer. Their answer is very informative, and includes a partial translation of a Japanese research paper (which I'm sadly not at the level of being able to read). It concludes > ～ません and ～ないです are semantically equivalent, but ～ないです is softe... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278689 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Feature request: Ruby text As a Japanese learner, I think it would be really helpful if posts could contain ruby text. While I would use it mostly for Japanese, it's not something specific to it. I can see it being used for other languages as well, where currently I see people adding romanizations after the text, eg. here. ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277361 |
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| Edit | Post #277361 |
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| Edit | Post #277361 |
Post edited: tag fix |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278643 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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～ません versus ～ないです As far as my knowledge of Japanese goes, there are two ways to form polite negative forms of verbs, the direct conjugation ～ません and the plain negative conjugation ～ない with です added. Take for instance everyone's favorite word, 食べる (eat). This can be conjugated as: Negative, Plain: 食べない Negati... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278400 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #278400 |
Suggested edit: Changed link to a more readable form (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277374 |
Post edited: Clarified |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277339 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #277357 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277357 |
Suggested edit: Added some organizational tags that describe what the post contains (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278156 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #278156 |
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helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278158 |
Post edited: Updated for Monica's clarification |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #278158 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Primary clause uses singular, subordinate co-reference is plural, what verb to use in English? > The general rule I learned is to ignore subordinate clauses when resolving cases like this. The "outer" sentence, which contains the verb, is "The oath he swore (verb) just fluff to him", and so the correct verb is "was". That is correct, "was" is the grammatically correct choice in your example... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278105 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #278105 |
Suggested edit: fixed wikipedia link (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Edit | Post #278104 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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Do we want capitalized tags? So, the general consensus on Should we allow capitalized tags? seems to be yes. The obvious next questions is, do we, the Language community, want them? Since we've recently gotten the [Thai] tag, we now have language tags both capitalized and lowercase. For the sake of consistency, I think we sho... (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #278002 |
Suggested edit: Clarified the title (even though it made it much longer) + grammar fixes (more) |
declined | 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) |
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| Comment | Post #277352 |
@ArtOfCode I'm pretty sure you said you didn't want to use them... (I asked, you said there's no need, that's what I'm taking as a rejection) (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277352 |
@msh210
So we basically agree then. There should be more fonts in the font stack for language coverage. lang attributes are my preferred choice as well, but @ArtOfCode said that they didn't want to use them (don't ask me why). (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277352 |
@msh210 besides... I do have Noto. But because Noto isn't listed in the font stack for the site, my browser doesn't decide to use it. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277352 |
@msh210 "everyone else can suffer" That's... pretty callous, no matter how I see it (more) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #277339 |
Suggested edit: merging phonology and pronunciation tag (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| Suggested Edit | Post #277509 |
Suggested edit: added grammar tag (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |