Activity for Jirka Hanika
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| Comment | Post #284634 |
I certainly didn't know about the article nor about that particular theory before I started researching, and I did find it referenced online. I drew a lot of insight and further references from here: https://french.stackexchange.com/questions/2945/the-meaning-and-etymology-of-histoire-de-histoire-qu... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284423 |
Yes I suppose so. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283427 |
Of the options offered, Ladino written in Solitreo makes by far the most sense. Ladino would be the language, also called Judezmo, and Solitreo would be the "Sephardic cursive" script used to write the language.
It's really hard to run into a native speaker of Ladino these days, it's a dying lang... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284168 |
I think that the parallel with "you are" could be made much more prominent and also made easier to understand for people to whom *thou lovest me/I love thee/ye love me/I love you* is no longer recognizable grammar. (Still, it's just a parallel process and not a compelling reason for anything new.) ... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284168 |
Feel free to use some or all of these examples.
Poet called William, William and Werewolf, year 1360 or so: "þan hastely hiȝed eche wiȝt on hors & on fote, / huntyng wiȝt houndes alle heie wodes, / til þei neyȝþed so neiȝh to nymphe þe soþe, / þere william & his worþi lef were liand i-fere" ("The... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282694 |
That should perhaps be the answer rather than a mere comment. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282880 |
@#54114 Yes, the same. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282880 |
A Russian speaker might ask a similar question about the "h" in a word like "shadow". How would you explain such a letter unfamiliar to a Russian speaker who can read English? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #282837 |
I don't think you can write "tan" in Bengali, because the vowel in "tan" does not exist in Bengali. You need to add a new vowel to your repertoire if you want to be able to pronounce distinct English words in distinct ways. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281981 |
"language evolution"? (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
That is: Trills, laterals, nasal stops can all be pronounced alone, even sung on, if voiced. Oral fricatives can be pronounced alone, although tend not to become the syllable nucleus in human speech. Oral stops can't really be pronounced alone, but they can at least be demonstrated silently/visuall... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
@Moshi - You are right. It's complicated. I was paraphrasing the etymology of "consonant", which goes to the oldest known Greek Grammar τέχνη γραμματική by Dionysios Thrax. The footnotes on this page: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consonant explain what I meant. What Thrax wrote isn't technically... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281770 |
@celtschk - You might want to read up about the process called "lenition". https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenition. Pretty much any consonant can disappear over time, but usually not abruptly, but rather through certain articulatory pathways. One of those pathways is debuccalization, and that *may*... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
@MonicaCellio - You got that 100% right. In the context of this answer, I had in mind Hebrew written through Phoenician (or Hebrew) letters 2 or 3 thousand years ago. That gives you ʾaleph as an optional glottal stop, and ʿayin (I guess) as a voiced pharyngeal fricative which is very distinct from ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281330 |
This sounds like a rather vague question right now. Greetings belong to pragmatics more than to semantics; even if they are analyzed semantically, one can't equate their "meaning" with their earlier meaning (etymology) in the same or another language. The same language may have a wide spectrum of c... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279828 |
Showing that Russian has the same metaphor like English does couldn't have possibly helped the original Russian student, because they needed to discover that on their own. That answer was intended to help you better understand that Russian student's situation, waiting for them to discover. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279828 |
@PSTH - The right answer is probably tautological - each student has to spend more time of contemplating the relationship between untying a (difficult to untie) knot and solving (a difficult to solve) problem. It is time consuming because lots of other cognates should be explored in the process, and... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280585 |
You aren't alone, but the form is on the rise, well past deniability. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280943 |
@JohnDoea - Thank you for drawing my attention to my error concerning the Formosan languages. I had simply misunderstood that wiktionary entry (from my previous comment) on that point. No relationship to any Austronesian language is suggested by any wiktionary page. Answer rewritten. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280943 |
@JohnDoea - I relied on the mainstream classification in my answer (and I can't speak either language myself); I was initially open to the possibility of a combination of borrowings providing a connection for the two words. I took the Austronesian (specifically Formosan) connection, judging from my ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281041 |
It's true that "meni" could be a phonological simplification for "menis" or "menisi" (with a very young child swallowing the last syllable) rather than a genuine grammatical phenomenon. Most children stop omitting syllables and simplifying consonant clusters massively by the age of 3 or 4, possibly ... (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280731 |
@user8078 - OK, got your point now. Thanks for the correction! (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280731 |
@user8078 - You have a point, but it's just a matter of notation. It's more important for me that those were single segment affricates with distinctive voicing in Old French, than the exact place of articulation. I was initially tempted to use / t͡ʃ/ and /d͡ʒ/ (i.e., with a tie bar) but that displa... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280731 |
@user8078 - We can exchange our sources. Mine is [this page](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phonological_history_of_French) which gives /tʃ/ -> /ʃ/ and /dʒ/ -> /ʒ/ as a Late Old French development. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@Lundin - Yes, absolutely agree. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@Moshi, @fedorqui - Sure, I never have a problem with any proposals that don't impose any new major constraints on non-participants. I'm most happy when things are moving forward on their own and I try to intervene only if they are not. If this particular initiative gets popular enough, it can be gr... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279462 |
However, if it turned out that Barbagians say "erru", it would be (for me) a further indication that the development in Spanish was induced by contact with Basque - it would help seeing the two language changes as independent from each other and thus to support the language contact hypothesis and spe... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279462 |
@PeterTaylor - in my unsuccessful search for how coastal Sardinian "ferru" is currently pronounced in Barbagia (central Sardinia) I realized a third possibility - apart from historical contact between the Biscay and Barbagia versus Barbagia simply retaining the Latin "f" like coastal Sardinian did, i... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280330 |
If you really want yet another alternative, you can also try out "punt d'interès", but that one needs even more connection to the terrain - it's not something which you place just with a click, it has to already "be" there. HTH. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280330 |
@fedorqui - "fita" is etymologically related to English "fixed". Perhaps it would work well, if there's any permanence to the waypoints. These guys even list it as an equivalent of "waypoint": https://wiki.openstreetmap.org/wiki/OSM_en_catal%C3%A0. And "fita" certainly does mean a control point i... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280330 |
@fedorqui - I'm learning along with you. Like always. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280061 |
I share fedorqui's opinion that we don't have an obvious use case just yet. (Comments can't be upvoted just now. Answers are votable. Hence this me-too comment.) Let me also add that our current "wiki" post type represents top level posts (like articles) and cannot be used as answers to questions... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279810 |
Are you that "ESL student" yourself? If not, you could improve the question by elaborating what you have tried. Specifically, you could edit to add what connections between problem solving and its special case of knot untying/cutting you are already aware of, what made it difficult to share your id... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279682 |
It seems (to me as a legal layman) that the quoted passages from "The paths to privity" explored the topic very well. I can only add that the _concept_ of privity of contract exists in other languages and legal cultures of continental Europe as well. The concept is however so basic that you could c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279490 |
@PLTR PSTH - I have left the question as is, but I have made several things in the answer more definite and more explicit in case any of that helps. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279490 |
@PLTR PSTH - Just to be sure about your question: how it shifted to mean "riposte" as in fencing, or how it shifted to mean "riposte" as in a verbal exchange? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279490 |
@PLTR PSTH - I can research the other word and then edit the trailer of the answer, but it was the question which referred to the "2020 meaning" of "riposting" as if that word, unlike "repartir", was something assumed already clear. Was the question referring to a specific meaning, or perhaps to bot... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279477 |
@Lundin - If we go with the category alternative, I imagine we'll need to introduce a transient tag first anyway, just to mark which existing posts are to be migrated to the new category. And if we don't: retagging new posts is easier than recategorizing them, right? (I'm just failing to see how a ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279462 |
Not just in Japanese [not affirming myself], also in central Sardinian and maybe elsewhere in Romance. If anyone has any examples of Latin "f" which is not morpheme-initial, that might allow additional research into whether the particular developments appear the same or only partly the same, and thu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279477 |
@curiousdannii - Favorite tags would be a really cool addition. Hierarchical tags already work: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276452 (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279462 |
Arabic has initial "f" and Spanish actually retains it easily, although it was lost in some early loanwords as well.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arabic_language_influence_on_the_Spanish_language#F,_G (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@curiousdannii - We can retag incorrect tagging, which is an advantage of tags over categories. Would the hypothetical two categories really be named "Q&A" and "Linguistics"? Such naming would probably cause a new user to post their first question into a random category, and a moderator to be unable... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@curiousdannii - Are you aware that you can already click on "Tags", tag name, and suddenly you only see questions tagged with that particular tag, and no other questions? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
I'm entertaining a plan of (someone, could be myself) writing up the best possible tag-based and category-based solution as two respective answers and see how they get voted. Anyone could add a third or fourth, for example negative answer (if they have specific concerns), too. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Moshi - Great, that equalizes things. I was going to write an answer today suggesting to go with a consistently applied tag "general-linguistics". But it was mainly because I couldn't see how to share the tags. My remaining concern with the original proposal is naming. Would the two categories r... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
I'm still learning the ropes. But it seems that there's currently a functional parity between the ability to search for posts by a tag versus by category. And contributors plus moderators are able to gradually fix any inaccurate tagging, but category is essentially permanent, i.e., in the hands of ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279290 |
@Lundin - the license that authors issue to SE is a non-exclusive one. (Like here.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
Supposing we can agree where to draw the line between linguistics and philology (so that it works for everybody), we'd still have to evaluate a tag based approach versus a category based approach. I think that a new category makes sense if "linguistics" and "philology" would have entirely separate t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279206 |
...~~declinations~~ declensions :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279282 |
@fedorqui - It was a polite declination. (I don't know whether I should delete the answer post through which the nomination was made, so simplify this question post, or to keep it for increased transparency of the process and to avoid potential duplicate nominations.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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