Activity for Jirka Hanika
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A: Using adjectives that are related to taste for describing emotions Some interesting experiments have been reported by Yanyun Zhou and Chi-Shing Tse (The Taste of Emotion: Metaphoric Association Between Taste Words and Emotion/Emotion-Laden Words). They were conditioning test subjects with this or that taste and tested how that influenced their attitudes in various ... (more) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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| 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) |
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A: Why is linguistics limited in how much it can look back in time? Deciphering a language which has left behind only a limited number of very short texts is hard. There are lots of undeciphered ancient languages; for additional distraction, some of those scripts might turn out to be representing non-languages, say, heraldic or ornamental symbols. Successful de... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #277480 |
The referenced post actually shows an example where you can go wrong with _who_. (more) |
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Post edited: I noticed a typo on my part where I was paraphrasing Orwell, and an additional discrepancy. |
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A: What is "these gentry" in Marxist writing? To understand Orwell's point, more context is in order. I'm leaving out most examples of Bad Writing indicators he gives which tend to be single words each. > Foreign words and expressions such as [...], individual (as noun), [...] are used to give an air of culture and elegance. Except for the u... (more) |
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| Comment | Post #278403 |
@Moshi - OK (*) (more) |
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@Moshi - OK (*) (more) |
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A: Has Japanese always had the polite "masu" form? The precursors were respectful body movements (kneeling, creeping) accompanying speech in certain contexts for centuries, used for example (but by far not only) when talking to a person of divine origin. The earliest forms of honorific speech eventually replaced those body movements at the Emperor... (more) |
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A: What is the origin (etymology) of the word مسدس (pistol)? In English, "pistol" might primarily mean pretty much any single shot handgun, and only by extension the word my also be used to mean a revolver which can shoot several times, for example six times, before reloading. In Arabic, it's the opposite. مُسَدَّس primarily means a "sixshooter", and only ... (more) |
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A: How do linguists determine historical pronunciation? Language change, including phonetic changes, proceeds slowly and for the most part without language users being fully in control, or even aware of it. (You might ask why. The intentional component of language change for a speaker is limited by the listener's capability of understanding their "wanna... (more) |
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