Activity for Jirka Hanika
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| Edit | Post #279651 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How did 'equity' semantically shift to mean 'Assets — Liabilities'? The term (semantic) "shift" implies not just the emergence of a new meaning, but also abandonment of the old one. The old meanings you refer to are still present in current English, so it is perhaps premature to speak of a semantic shift; this answer attempts to explain the emergence of the particul... (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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279490 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How did « re » + « partir » compound to 🡲 "repartee", which means "rejoinder"? partir is intransitive in modern French ("depart") but primarily transitive in Old French ("distribute", i.e., "make depart"). The transitive meaning is still preserved, as an archaism, in the set phrase "avoir maille à partir avec...". Analyze the prefix separately from the root: re- - again... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #279477 |
@curiousdannii - Favorite tags would be a really cool addition. Hierarchical tags already work: https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276452 (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279478 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split off Linguistics into a site category? This is one of four (or more) alternative answers. (I am posting the alternatives separately and simultaneously to allow separate voting and commenting. They represent elaborations of potential courses of action touched upon by comments on the question post. Comments on the answer post can now... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279477 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split off Linguistics into a site category? This is one of four (or more) alternative answers. (I am posting the alternatives separately and simultaneously to allow separate voting and commenting. They represent elaborations of potential courses of action touched upon by comments on the question post. Comments on the answer post can n... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279476 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split off Linguistics into a site category? This is one of four (or more) alternative answers. (I am posting the alternatives separately and simultaneously to allow separate voting and commenting. They represent elaborations of potential courses of action touched upon by comments on the question post. Comments on the answer post can now... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279475 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Split off Linguistics into a site category? This is one of four (or more) alternative answers. (I am posting the alternatives separately and simultaneously to allow separate voting and commenting. They represent elaborations of potential courses of action touched upon by comments on the question post. Comments on the answer post can now... (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) |
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| Edit | Post #279459 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Styling language tags Languages already stand out more because they just got capitalized. However, I like the idea to make them stand out even more. There are two good ways to do it: topic tags and required tags. Topic tags We currently don't have tags for (genetical) language families. For example this question ... (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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279315 | Post edited | — | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279206 |
...~~declinations~~ declensions :-) (more) |
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| 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) |
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| Suggested Edit | Post #279315 |
Suggested edit: My own answer would have been very similar to yours, except that I feel I know why some say that Japanese does not have pronouns. (more) |
helpful | over 3 years ago |
| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279238 |
Thank you for the nomination. Accepted. I intend to moderate in moderation. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279282 |
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| Edit | Post #279282 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: Who should the temporary moderators be? I nominate msh210 because he has an analytical mind, familiarity with sign languages (which I think is useful background during the scope definition period of the site), and, like Moshi, a healthy voting structure. (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279210 |
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| 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) |
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| Edit | Post #279210 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: How did 'consideration' shift to signify grounds and the act of deliberation, then inducer of a grant or promise? It is a sequence of shifts of meaning. 1 to 2 is a metonymy. Some, such as Burke, would even call it a synecdoche, as long as they are ready to consider an "effect" to be a part of its "cause" or vice versa. 2 to 3 is an even clearer case of synecdoche, as long as the decision is understood to... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279206 | Initial revision | — | over 3 years ago |
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A: What drives the complexity of a language? This is a frame challenge answer. There is no objective measure of "language complexity" known to me, not even attempts to define one. Bigger tasks require more complexity, but just very little Languages used for a drastically wider range of communication functions tend to be a little bit ... (more) |
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| 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 |
| Edit | Post #278822 |
Post edited: Correcting typos |
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| Edit | Post #278909 |
Post edited: I realized I'm inconsistently mixing attention to spoken and written forms to the detriment of conservativity of Danish. |
— | over 3 years ago |