Activity for Moshi
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| Edit | Post #277482 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #277476 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #277458 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #277425 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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Post edited: Added a suggestion for custom markdown |
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Post edited: Apparently span tags are blacklisted |
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| Comment | Post #277298 |
The spelling never changed. People pronounced it as pronunciation, so people spelled it that way. (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277298 |
@DecapitatedSoul normally, you *want* the spelling of words to match their pronunciation. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277378 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Comment | Post #277352 |
@Sigma Windows 10 / Edge, but it really comes up everywhere since it's not actually a bug (more) |
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| Edit | Post #277374 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #277361 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Edit | Post #277352 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #277298 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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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) |
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| Comment | Post #277108 |
Whether it is meant to imply "in formal English", "in standard English", or "at all" is a bit ambiguous though. (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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.
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Actually, try editing your answer. When I opened up your answer t... (more) |
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