Activity for Jirka Hanika
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| Edit | Post #293358 |
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— | 22 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293358 | Initial revision | — | 22 days ago |
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A: Did older Icelandic use any apostrophes? Representing what? Icelandic does have some conventions for the use of apostrophes. It´s just that apostrophes are rare and optional in Icelandic. They are so rare that some translator resources declare that apostrophes are not used in the Icelandic language at all; or, for another illustration, unexpected symbols, s... (more) |
— | 22 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293348 |
I had also mentioned (via a reference) that in Norwegian (unlike in Icelandic or Finnish) writing "a" and reading it [ö] was and/or is a thing (due to the U-umlaut). I just tried to find a modern example of that (I found none before I gave up), but instead, I found something that surprised me: a Nor... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293348 |
Not quite. It's more like I don't know the specific impact of the historical sound change on Modern Norwegian and I can't tell you any logically cohesive story, nor be sure that the phenomenon you described has anything to do with the historical sound change. But I do know that the impact of U-umla... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293348 |
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— | 24 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293348 | Initial revision | — | 24 days ago |
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A: Different pronunciation of «cup» and «bug» by Norwegians and Finns First of all, vowels exist in a continuum, and that continuum is differently structured into "phonemes" in any given language. The difference between [ʌ] and [a] could be prominent for an English speaker, while a Finnish speaker might hear the same sounds as [ɑ] and [ɑː], respectively, interpreting ... (more) |
— | 24 days ago |
| Comment | Post #293330 |
The oldest known printed apostrophe in Europe is from 1496, and the language of that book (De Ætna) was indeed Latin - soon to be followed by Italian, French, and so on. Your comment helped to remind me that the pressure to standardize punctuation, in any language, until the printing press came abou... (more) |
— | 26 days ago |
| Edit | Post #293330 | Initial revision | — | 27 days ago |
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Did older Icelandic use any apostrophes? Representing what? I am generally unfamiliar with any use of apostrophes in Icelandic, current or older. However, I just discovered a punctuation mark similar to an apostrophe in quite a few places in this 100 years old article. Those occurrences are mostly found in the right hand side, bottom part of the printed p... (more) |
— | 27 days ago |
| Comment | Post #292962 |
The account which posted this answer never contributed anything genuine to the site, only AI-generated content of very low quality. It is an account solely created to post spam. (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292962 |
Is there a reason why you are adding multiple answers to the same question?
How do _you_ perceive the added value and quality of each such answer relative to each other, and to other available answers to the same question? What are your (or the site's) goals and how can we best further those th... (more) |
— | 3 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292889 | Initial revision | — | 4 months ago |
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A: Are Icelandic unstressed diphthongs in loanwords supposed to be reduced? A peculiar feature of Icelandic is that it distinguishes vowel length, not just for pure vowels, but also for diphthongs. (Vowel length does not distinguish meaning, or at least not directly; it is determined from the context, such as syllable stress and coda composition, rather mechanically.) An... (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292543 |
I just applied the network wide policy, deleting the particular referenced AI-generated post. (Whose entire text was "_German uses the third-person plural for the second-person polite form to show respect and formality in conversations. It reflects a linguistic tradition of addressing individuals wi... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292543 |
Big thanks to pointing me to the network wide policy! Had I found it before asking on L&L meta, I might have just handled the currently pending AI related flags based on it and leave the rest till a more nuanced AI use case arrives. Given that "L&L" and "LLM" share one of their respective letters, ... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292543 | Initial revision | — | 5 months ago |
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Do we have any policy on AI-generated or plagiarized answers? An answer was recently posted and its edit history strongly suggests that it was AI-generated in entirety; that apparently attracted some flagging. The answer happens to be of poor quality, but the text is such that a human could, in my opinion, conceivably write and post a similar pseudo-answer, to... (more) |
— | 5 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292278 |
Let's wait whether anyone familiar with the history of accounting and banking, or with the subtlest meanings of "count" is able to answer this more confidently.
I don't feel like that Etymonline necessarily skipped many or any steps. Metonymy is an extremely common figure of speech (and many kind... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292318 |
Post edited: add some more historical context |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292318 |
I was working with similar sources when writing up my answer. This article doesn´t change my answer. Let me add that I applaud that you started to look at your question from an accounting perspective - that's the right perspective as this is primarily an accounting term. In contrast, this is a lin... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292318 |
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— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #292318 | Initial revision | — | 6 months ago |
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A: Why ‘going’, in “going concern”? No source is given for the quote in the OP. It's not an authoritative definition of the term (nor I aim to provide one here). To properly understand that quote anyway, focus on the term "viable", which you highlighted, and which has a specific economical meaning, way narrower than just "operating... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Comment | Post #292278 |
It is unclear what question is being asked here.
If it is a question about the history of formal accounting (within an English-speaking context), that could make the question off topic or at least difficult to answer within this community.
If it is about the semantic transition from "counting" ... (more) |
— | 6 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290982 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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Are Icelandic unstressed diphthongs in loanwords supposed to be reduced? In Icelandic, certain accented vowel letters (especially ó, á) are consistently explained as diphthongs ([ou] and [au], respectively) in pronunciation guides. Accented vowel letters are also encountered in many loanwords, perhaps to emphasize the foreign origin of a particular vowel. This frequen... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #290959 |
I had bimodal crispness in mind, but you could probably find a way to define crispness to be more like discreteness, thus ending up with yet another dimension. The original post uses the term "clear-cut" which could perhaps mean either; the degree of bimodality is easier to define than the degree of... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Edit | Post #290959 | Initial revision | — | 12 months ago |
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A: What underlying principle is at play for how objective or subjective a natural language instruction is? The question alludes to at least three correlated, but quite distinct dimensions. Objectivity/subjectivity Room for model's creativity (information theoretical) Crispness of the boundary between "correct" and "incorrect" productions. To define them, introduce an additional agent, perhaps a... (more) |
— | 12 months ago |
| Comment | Post #288727 |
We are all hesitant to answer this question, lest we get voted upon and burdened with undeserved reputation. However, our collective silence also seem to indicate that the status quo works well enough for us.
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— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290447 |
"Die Weihnacht", a single night starting by the sunset on 12/24, marks the beginning of "das Weihnachtsfest", the multi-day period also known as "Weihnachten". In German-speaking countries, at least Saint Stephen's Day (Boxing Day) is understood to be _part of_ Christmas, and not a holiday _followin... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290447 |
Let's not confuse the use of articles with grammatical genders.
IF an article is to be used, then the gender becomes relevant for the choice of the article. Otherwise it's best to stop equating der/die/das with the grammatical genders for that particular word. "Weihnachten" goes without an art... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290467 |
Thank you for the summary. The original question also sought to place the word in a class of similarly behaving "frozen" forms. The only other example I can think of is "Ostern" (Easter). (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290456 |
I'd appreciate if you leave this question open because I would love reading any answers that may arrive, even if that takes time.
Asking additional questions as separate question posts makes perfect sense, too. (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290456 |
"Orthographic depth" is the concept that lets you compare a language with another language. Different researchers define it differently and they rarely offer any numeric values for individual languages.
When learning a _second_ language, however, any prior linguistic background trumps everything ... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290456 |
I think that you are asking some valid, but extremely complicated questions to even define/ask properly.
It starts with the definition of a "language". What if we consider cases like Chinese or Arabic where many different spoken languages arguably map to the same or somewhat similar written langu... (more) |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289960 |
Post edited: Did a more careful job of counting the Latin (grammatical) morphs |
— | about 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #290214 |
The only British English pronunciation [recording](https://forvo.com/word/nobly/) of "nobly" currently present at forvo does not seem to capture the phenomenon. Consider finding or providing an example recording online - or provide an IPA transcription within your question if that is easier for you... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #278583 |
Let's not get carried too far away from the question at hand, however. Thai grammar *needs* to invoke the concept of classifiers precisely because they serve way more functions than counting; counting is just a textbook example of a context where they are obligatory. English does not come anywhere ... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #278583 |
An arguably obligatory use of classifiers (whether we call them that or not) in English is when counting uncountable nouns. While ordinary nouns are used for that purpose, the choice of the specific noun is often idiomatic... leaving the speaker with no other choice. Conversely, the list of Thai cl... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289960 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: What is "nift"? The oldest known usage of "nifty" is in an American poem from 1868. If you read the poem at this link, you'll find that that author found it useful to comment on the meaning of the word inside the poem itself. That's an incredibly unusual circumstance. Should we trust the poem's own interpretati... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Comment | Post #289905 |
Wow, that's obviously a killer fact. Incorporated. (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |
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— | over 1 year ago |
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Post edited: Incorporating improvements suggested through further comments and further research |
— | over 1 year ago |
| Edit | Post #289905 | Initial revision | — | over 1 year ago |
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A: What's a "road colony"? Following an earlier comment which indicated that this could be a typo for a "roach colony", @msh210 was able to confirm that this 1980 edition of the book indeed had a "roach colony" where the 1987 edition mentioned by the OP has the "road colony". Three pages down the story, we get an independen... (more) |
— | over 1 year ago |