Activity for Jirka Hanika
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| Comment | Post #279346 |
@curiousdannii - For me personally, linguistics is defined as the study of language. So there's not much of a difference between "a question about a language" and "a question involving linguistics". So more examples would perhaps help me see where the line could be drawn. My first idea of "particu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
Would a consistently used "general-linguistics" tag (for example, for questions not targeting a single specific language) work for you equivalently? Could you please edit the question to provide examples of where you'd like the line to be drawn? For example, would [this question](https://languages.c... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
@Moshi - OK, that makes sense. Thank you. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277071 |
The stop-gap text (the short description) seems to me remarkably good. The three clauses overlap each other a lot. But together they disambiguate each other. I'm not sure whether we need to polish it any further until we receive complaints or misunderstandings. Of course, any suggestions for a re... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279179 |
Sorry for a very basic question. What would go wrong if we simply used Noto Sans as is? I'm just trying to understand where the challenges are. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
Thank you for the nomination. Accepted. I intend to moderate in moderation. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279206 |
@celtschk - Yes I'm pointing out some tendencies and theories rather than hard and fast rules. French or English is further ahead on the Dixon's wheel than German or Latin. If you consider just morphology, especially just that of nouns, the latter are objectively more complex than the former. Stil... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278909 |
To be very clear about icke, had wiktionary listed it for Swedish (which it didn't at the time of my experiment), alongside "inte" and the more Old Norse like "ej", I would have counted the item as a draw per my acknowledged bias toward a drawn result, ignoring the additional alternatives. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278909 |
If you choose to compute and post your totals on the same word list, or from an independent word list (let me suggest the last 107 words from the same 207 word list) I'm sure that multiple people will be interested to see how much we differ numerically. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278909 |
@Lundin, this is repeatable science with its flaws of the method and errors of measurement. I had bound my hands, as to the choice of lexemes representing each language, by strictly perusing the referenced 207 word list in the wiktionary (you can click on "comparing" in the answer to access it). A su... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278623 |
Hi @msh210, thank you for your reactions. Good points, answer updated. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278240 |
I agree with the existing comments, partly because languages are complex systems and it's quite subjective to choose between syntax, morphology, phonology, lexicon, and so on. Further complicating dimensions of comparison are media (spoken/written), genres, styles, registers as those can greatly dif... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277129 |
@user53100 - Re _"I'm interested to know universal and applicable it is."_ - Are you asking whether a similar distinction between Greater and Lesser etymology would apply, apart from Classical Arabic, also to modern dialects of Arabic? Or within the Semitic family? Or across all language families?... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278583 |
@Moshi - That was my first impression from the question as well, but I reconsidered as part of celebrating the Codidact anniversary. A classifier is obligatory in a simple question of the "how many" type. There's also "กี่" which means simply "how many" which would hardly strike a fluent speaker of... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278483 |
So our chances of excavating a stela from 20,000 BCE or of a primitive audio recording from that period are about the same. It won't happen because the stuff is not under the ground. We need more than purely linguistic _methods_ if we want to see much further back than we already do. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278483 |
Writing also tends to co-occur with urban development, social stratification, high population density, high intensity agriculture, and other phenomena which you'd think you'd excavate first; the oldest currently known city in the world is only 11,000 years old, while some anthropologists conjecture t... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278483 |
@Lundin - Excavating more text would certainly help, and it doesn't need to be multilingual in order to be useful. The problem is that writing seems to be orders of magnitude younger than speech. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277480 |
The referenced post actually shows an example where you can go wrong with _who_. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278403 |
@Moshi - OK (*) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278403 |
@Moshi - OK (*) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
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