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Posts by Jirka Hanika‭

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Meta 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 c...

posted 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Moshi‭

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Q&A Why “chose” in action? Why not “right/droit” in action?

"Thing" isn't an obvious supernym for a "right". The legal definition of a "thing" is narrower than "simply anything" and it varies not just by a language, but also by jurisdiction. Any chose in ...

posted 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&A How did 'forfeit' shift to signify ‘penalty imposed for committing such a misdeed'?

Here is a semantic midpoint example recorded around 1435, from Prose Brut: Whan it shal lyke hym to desire of þe Kyng eny oþer landes or lordships...yfte as by escheet, forfait, rebellion, or su...

posted 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭  ·  edited 3y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&A Are Icelandic unstressed diphthongs in loanwords supposed to be reduced?

A peculiar feature of Icelandic is that it distinguishes vowel length, not just for pure vowels, but also for diphthongs. (Vowel length does not distinguish meaning, or at least not directly; it i...

posted 2mo ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Q&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...

posted 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭  ·  edited 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Meta 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. Top...

posted 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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Meta 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 c...

posted 4y ago by Jirka Hanika‭

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