Activity for Jirka Hanika
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| Edit | Post #279788 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Why word future events in the present? There is some arbitrariness in what you are[^1] going to call (formal) future tense in an almost analytical language. The idea of grammatical categories, including which tenses to look for in a verb, came into English through Latin[^2] whose morphology of verbs was considerably richer. There is a... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #279775 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What semantic notions underlie "gasket" with "little gird, maidservant"? Whether "gasket" comes from French "garcette" or not, I have no idea. If a particularly misogynistic and at the same time naval etymology is sought, then the thing called "garcette" was, among other uses, an instrument of corporal punishment. However, that's probably not the original meaning in... (more) |
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Post edited: Additional research on the Surinamese usage didn't confirm my earlier claim. |
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| Edit | Post #279734 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: What is the difference between 'u heeft' and 'u hebt'? This article explains a shift from 19th century usage of the 3rd person[^1] "heeft" to current day 2nd person "hebt". Both forms currently have the same meaning, both are correct. However, some sources indicate that "u heeft" is now considered formal in contrast to the unmarked "u hebt", while othe... (more) |
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A: How can a prepositional phrase shift to become a verb? Like any language change, it can be a bit confusing to current speakers while it is happening, but once the resulting verb is established, nobody will blink anymore. Latin was especially fond of verbification of prepositional phrases. Prepositions simply became prefixes. To overcome your unset... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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A: Why past tense in imaginative play in Finnish? The younger the child, the less established the grammar. You can respond with "Nyt se menee nukkumaan" and put the toy into its sleeping house, thus just implementing the suggestion using your own "adult" grammar. (I don't see the verb form used by the child as incorrect either. In their powerfu... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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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) |
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| 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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 4 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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| 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 4 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #279290 |
@Lundin - the license that authors issue to SE is a non-exclusive one. (Like here.) (more) |
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