Posts by Moshi
I realize that we don't have an official stance on translation questions, so I am looking for community feedback. Should translation questions of words/phrases be considered off-topic?
While learning a language, there are a surprising (to me at least) number of people who say that you should never output until fluent - that is, as long as you get enough input, you will eventually...
Generally speaking, German verbs inflect with the following table Person Inflection Example ich -e sage, arbeite du -(e)st sagst, arbeitest er/sie/es -(e)t sagt, a...
Many quantity words trigger agreement with their object rather than themselves. For instance, syntactically, "a lot, "a bunch", "an amount" seem to all be singular. However, as a native speaker, "T...
Consider the following sentences: "She was against his joining the team." "She was against his joining of the team." "She was against him joining the team." Instinctively, the first just so...
I've been studying German lately, and came across something that sparked my curiosity: The way to say "me too" in German is "ich auch" - that is, "I too". A shallow glance at other Germanic languag...
I recently stumbled upon this wikipedia page and it got me thinking. Take a look at the following table (terms are lifted from the Wikipedia page) W (interrogative) H (proximal) T (medial)...
There isn't an established procedure, but I personally would ask either on Meta for visibility (asking for the creation of a post seems Meta-y) and/or create the resource post itself, even if empty.
This has been implemented [Citation needed] As a more academically focused site, it might be useful to mark answers as lacking sufficient citations to back the answer up authoritatively. This g...
A certain question has twice now been hit by the dreaded "You can find this information by Google" I've noticed this has occurred quite frequently, especially link-only answers which I delete as a...
I think the answer is a lack of a clear scope. I mentioned this in various comments in the past, but are we a linguistics site (like Linguistics SE), a language learning site (Like English Language...
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", "Outdate...
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...
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...
It's built just like the normal present perfect. I have had it. Have you had it?
Japanese, 20 characters コディダクトの語学コミュニティにようこそ！ I'm not actually sure how "Codidact" would be converted into katakana, since nobody told me how to pronounce it.
In an effort to drum up activity (given we haven't had any in over a week), I present the first translation golf! Before entering, please read the ground rules. The aim of the game is to translat...
I've drafted sample translation-golf challenge post, and am planning on posting it on Saturday (if no one objects). Feel free to suggest any changes you might want to make. In an effort to dru...
Ground Rules (draft) This is loosely based off of the original translation golf on StackExchange, but modified to fit a wider range of languages. Goal: Translate a given text using the minimum nu...
Recently, I read the phrase "Us neither", and for some reason it irked me. I don't know why though, since I can't immediately say what exactly is wrong with it. Logically, "Me neither" and "Neither...
We now have a "Wiki" post type Essentially, wiki posts are articles, but with a lower bar for editing; Unlike with other post types, anybody with the Participate Everywhere privilege can edit t...
(Continued discussion of a specific idea from What tag hierarchy and ontology should Linguistics use?) As you've probably noticed, we have the ability to put style tags differently. For example, t...
What arguments are used to answer this question? Does it stem from a lack of agreement over how to define a pronoun? Essentially, yes. Even your own Wikipedia quote has the infamous [citation ...
I nominate Jirka Hanika, because they're (relatively) active and have good answers here.
A continuation of my previous post. Crowdsourced font stack for Languages & Linguistics I am currently working on crafting font stacks for each script; see the draft pull request here: https:...
