Jordan‭

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I'm a physicist right now. I know how to use multiple different tools, like table saws and chopsticks and shell scripts and TeX compilers. I also know words like "voiceless retroflex sibilant" so you might see me on Languages & Linguistics. Big fan of the UFC. I get headaches if I go 24 hours without coffee.

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Q&A How did “-able” semantically shift to mean “requiring”?

Polite language got turned into legal language maybe? The first example that comes up when I google the word "payable" is "interest is payable on the money owing." And from Dictionary.com I get "...

posted 2y ago by Jordan‭ · edited 2y ago by Jordan‭

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Q&A Why is my Danglish pronunciation much better than Danish?

In the Pinyin romanization of Mandarin Chinese, the 't' denotes a voiceless aspirated coronal stop and the 'd' denotes a voiceless unaspirated coronal stop. But, since I'm a native English speaker,...

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