Communities

Writing
Writing
Codidact Meta
Codidact Meta
The Great Outdoors
The Great Outdoors
Photography & Video
Photography & Video
Scientific Speculation
Scientific Speculation
Cooking
Cooking
Electrical Engineering
Electrical Engineering
Judaism
Judaism
Languages & Linguistics
Languages & Linguistics
Software Development
Software Development
Mathematics
Mathematics
Christianity
Christianity
Code Golf
Code Golf
Music
Music
Physics
Physics
Linux Systems
Linux Systems
Power Users
Power Users
Tabletop RPGs
Tabletop RPGs
Community Proposals
Community Proposals
tag:snake search within a tag
answers:0 unanswered questions
user:xxxx search by author id
score:0.5 posts with 0.5+ score
"snake oil" exact phrase
votes:4 posts with 4+ votes
created:<1w created < 1 week ago
post_type:xxxx type of post
Search help
Notifications
Mark all as read See all your notifications »

Activity for Moshi‭

Type On... Excerpt Status Date
Suggested Edit Post #278105 Suggested edit:
fixed wikipedia link
(more)
helpful about 4 years ago
Edit Post #278104 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question 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)
about 4 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #278002 Suggested edit:
Clarified the title (even though it made it much longer) + grammar fixes
(more)
declined about 4 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)
about 4 years ago
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)
about 4 years ago
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)
about 4 years ago
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)
about 4 years ago
Comment Post #277352 @msh210 "everyone else can suffer" That's... pretty callous, no matter how I see it
(more)
about 4 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #277339 Suggested edit:
merging phonology and pronunciation tag
(more)
helpful about 4 years ago
Suggested Edit Post #277509 Suggested edit:
added grammar tag
(more)
helpful about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Post undeleted about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Post deleted about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277482 Post edited:
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277482 Post edited:
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277482 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question Is it really true that all Chinese words have one syllable?
I'm sure a lot of people have heard it before: the statement "All Chinese words are one syllable (or character)." And because someone is going to ask, no, this is not just a Western thought - my Mandarin teacher (who is from Taiwan) also said this to me. Personally, I find the whole argument point...
(more)
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277476 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question When do you use 'whom'?
I have two basic questions about the usage of 'whom': 1. When and how do you use the word 'whom'? 2. Can I just... not? Even after looking it up, I'm confused. I've never found an example given where replacing 'whom' with 'who' will make the sentence sound wrong. Have I internalized something ...
(more)
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277458 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Question How do Chinese people give their names in Japanese? (And vice versa)
So, I have a Chinese name. (Specifically, Mandarin, if that makes a difference). What are the common ways to give this name in Japanese? Should I approximate the Chinese reading, use the on'yomi reading of the characters, or something else? Also, out of curiosity, how does the reverse situation wo...
(more)
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277374 Post edited:
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277425 Post edited:
forgot to include two bullets
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277425 Initial revision about 4 years ago
Answer A: How should we customize the Resources category?
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 of text. > - Use clear, simple language. Be specific. > - Add links for any online ...
(more)
about 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Post edited:
Added a suggestion for custom markdown
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Post edited:
Apparently span tags are blacklisted
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Post edited:
Added example
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #277298 The spelling never changed. People pronounced it as pronunciation, so people spelled it that way.
(more)
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #277298 @DecapitatedSoul normally, you *want* the spelling of words to match their pronunciation.
(more)
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277378 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Answer A: Is posting links to commercial content as part of a resource post allowed?
You should probably refer to the promotional content guidelines. Reproduced here: > You must explicitly state your affiliation. If you're linking your dragon-riding place, please just include a disclaimer that clearly states how you're connected with it. Something as simple as "This place is r...
(more)
over 4 years ago
Comment Post #277352 @Sigma Windows 10 / Edge, but it really comes up everywhere since it's not actually a bug
(more)
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277374 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question Has Japanese always had the polite "masu" form?
Japanese has what is known as the "polite form"/"masu form" and the "plain form". Notably, the two forms have completely different conjugations despite having the same meaning, differing only in politeness. My question is, has this grammatical politeness always existed? And if not, when and how did t...
(more)
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277361 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Article Chinese Dictionaries
Character and word dictionaries for Chinese Online/Web MDBG - An extensive online dictionary, primarily for Mandarin but also has entries for Cantonese. It runs the open source CC-CEDICT project. CC-Canto - An open-source Cantonese dictionary, run by Pleco. Mobile Apps Pleco (iOS, ...
(more)
over 4 years ago
Edit Post #277352 Initial revision over 4 years ago
Question Mixed fonts within a sentence (and proposed fixes)
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 sentence, for instance: 日本語が分かりません This is what it looks like on my machine: rendering example It...
(more)
over 4 years ago
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