Activity for curiousdannii
| Type | On... | Excerpt | Status | Date |
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| Comment | Post #285572 |
question is too broad (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285121 |
The "How did word X shift to mean Y" questions all come from one user who has been banned from all of Stack Exchange. That doesn't mean they should be banned here, but I would caution against using their posts as evidence of any broader trends. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280275 |
Why are all the options borderline ungrammatical, and none include "me"?? (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279738 |
English doesn't have a future tense, so what else could it possible do???
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279453 |
Well if it's not useful then it's visual noise. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279477 |
Does Codidact have tag filters, favourite tags, anything like that yet? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
I'd call the two categories "Languages Q&A" and "Linguistics Q&A". (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279453 |
Why do you think language tags should stand out more? Won't the languages be pretty obvious from the question titles? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Jirka Yes I am aware of that, but that only works when people have tagged things correctly, and it would only help me if there was one tag that was applied to all linguistics questions, and I don't think there should be. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277394 |
What evidence do you have that this is actually what happened? Wiktionary's etymologies for [both](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronounce) [words](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronunciation) show that they came from different French words, both of which were already short vowels. So don't we real... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277298 |
What evidence do you have that this is actually what happened? Wiktionary's etymologies for [both](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronounce) [words](https://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/pronunciation) show that they came from different French words, both of which were already short vowels. So don't we real... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
Tags won't help me avoid seeing etymology, usage, or translation questions. And I doubt I'll be able to cultivate an interest for them when so many of them are so poorly presented/researched/etc. The real answer to a lot of these questions (at least the ones from Stack Exchange) is "It's an arbitrary... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
Of course it's tricky because questions may use single languages and single words as examples. The answers will be different though. If it's a linguistics question then the answer will contextualise the single word and show how it fits into a larger part of knowledge. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Jirka I'd modify your definition to say that it's about the study of language *systems*. So most etymology questions, when they're focused on arbitrary single words, are arguably not really in the linguistics box and are the domain of the philologist instead of the linguist, and are only linguistics... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279346 |
@Jirka I don't think general-linguistics would be a useful tag, especially if the site has a question tag limit. I'd consider my question to mostly be on the linguistics side because I wanted to know from the perspective of lingustic typology whether Japanese has pronouns, not from the perspective of... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279346 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279347 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Answer | — |
A: Are questions on linguistics of "languages" like music, math, or coding on-topic? No. "Language" on this site refers to the natural languages of intelligent beings, not machine languages, music etc. In the absence of another qualifier a "language" is, as I wrote on another site, a system for communicating propositional and conceptual information to other beings. This is different ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279346 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Split off Linguistics into a site category? So to be honest, I have basically zero interest in any of the etymology, language usage, or language learning questions here. I'm here for the linguistics questions. And there's really not a lot of overlap between them. What if we made off linguistics as its own top level category (so next to Reso... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279310 |
@Moshi It's all about terminology, but if neopronoun refers to a coined pronoun (as compared to one that arose in the mists of time) then there's no reason it couldn't be grammaticalised. But maybe it would be clearer if I just referred to pronouns in this question. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279321 |
To my knowledge *hen* is not used only for non-binary/third gender people, so it's not what I'm asking about. (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279312 |
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— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279312 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Why are kinship terms typical examples of inalienablity but not meronomy? According to Chappell & McGregor (1996: 4) there are four typical types of inalienably possessed nouns: - spatial relationships such as the ’top’ or ’front’ of something - physical parts, especially human body parts - kinship bonds - objects which are essential for a person’s survival It... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279311 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Does Japanese have pronouns? It is often said that Japanese doesn't really have a pronoun word class, such as in the Wikipedia article on Japanese Grammar: > Although many grammars and textbooks mention pronouns (代名詞 daimeishi), Japanese lacks true pronouns. (Daimeishi can be considered a subset of nouns.) Strictly speaking, ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Edit | Post #279310 | Initial revision | — | almost 4 years ago |
| Question | — |
Are there any examples of neopronouns for non-binary or third gender people being fully incorporated into a language's grammar? Many non-binary people now request that new third person pronouns (neopronouns) be used to refer to them, for example xe or ze. These have not been widely used by English speakers yet, but it's still too early to say whether they might in the future. Non-binary gender is a fairly recent concept fo... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279109 |
[Didn't you get an informative enough answer last time?](https://english.stackexchange.com/q/500718/59258) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |