Activity for Jirka Hanika
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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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| 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) |
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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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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 | Initial revision | — | over 4 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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| 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 4 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 4 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| Comment | Post #278623 |
Hi @msh210, thank you for your reactions. Good points, answer updated. (more) |
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Post edited: I realized I'm inconsistently mixing attention to spoken and written forms to the detriment of conservativity of Danish. |
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| Edit | Post #278909 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Is Swedish more conservative than Danish and Norwegians? Every language has lots of varieties) which differ in conservativity among themselves. This effect can be massive[^1]. If any particular methodology for assessing conservativity forces a choice between the spoken form and the written form, or between various available registers) early in the proces... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278822 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are questions on linguistics of "languages" like music, math, or coding on-topic? This site is young and asking some questions and seeing how they end up received is a good way to judge what kind of coverage can be found here. That said, questions entirely disconnected from a mainstream interpretation of what are "languages" or "linguistics", questions unlikely to be studied by... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278818 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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A: Are conlang (artificially constructed natural languages) questions on topic? Questions about constructed languages are on topic to the same extent as questions about natural languages. A question about a world or a book series is not automatically on topic just because that world contains constructed languages, or because the books were written in a natural language. How... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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A: Why no "to"-infinitive in pual and huf'al? Grammatical categories are just tools to decompose a language into very simple, independent processes and rules that can be studied separately. But the actual language is much more convoluted than just a vocabulary and some universally applicable grammar rules. Let's take the English word "can". ... (more) |
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| Edit | Post #278590 | Initial revision | — | over 4 years ago |
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Icelandic patronymic pronunciation I find the pronunciation of Icelandic highly regular and predictable on the whole, but male patronymics continue to puzzle me. The suffix "-son" is consistently pronounced with an initial /ʃ/ rather than /s/, for example here. Also, and possibly related, I'm unable to tell why the "son of Jón" woul... (more) |
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| 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) |
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A: What is the Thai word for plurally numerical answer expectancy? The concrete word to be used depends on the kind of the object you want to count and it is called a "classifier"). There are hundreds of classifiers in Thai; much fewer classifiers than nouns, but still a lot of them. So you might associate each classifier with a class of nouns. If you cannot use ... (more) |
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