Activity for Monica Cellio
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| Comment | Post #288727 |
Sounds fine. If the community's preferences change in the future, we can make changes then. (more) |
— | 4 months ago |
| Comment | Post #289901 |
One person I shared this link with suggested that it's a typo for "roach colony", which seems to fit with the passage you quoted. Maybe someone can check other editions of the book? (more) |
— | 7 months ago |
| Comment | Post #286522 |
Another common case of your first bullet is for newborn children. "We just had a baby." / "Congratulations! Is it a boy or a girl?" That's completely normal in my experience (native USian speaker, midwest/northeast). I don't know enough to know which dialects that might not be normal in. (more) |
— | almost 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #285356 |
I'm surprised that this is a loan word (transliteration of the English word) in Hebrew, and that there wasn't already a native word with similar meaning. Is there but it's not used, or was this a new word when introduced? (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #284423 |
Thanks! That's very interesting; I had failed to decouple *language* and *script* and hadn't heard of "Sephardic cursive" before. I imagine that a native German might have written similarly about Yiddish at some point; both it and Ladino seem (to this layperson) to be hybrids in terms of both words... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283069 |
The words in your first list are all *counting* nouns -- you have a planet or several planets, etc. The words in your second list are *mass* nouns; we can talk about "philosophy" or "psychology" or "science" or "education" as a collective thing. Now, mass nouns can also be counting nouns, if for ex... (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #283363 |
I think somebody fixed it between when this was posted and when you and I saw it a couple minutes ago, @#53196. (more) |
— | over 2 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
Ah, thanks -- I didn't make the connection. Thanks for clarifying. (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281780 |
That's interesting about the Phonecian letter having a glottal stop. As I was taught (and this matches what I hear around me, but I am not a linguist and might have learned it wrong), the Hebrew ע ('ayin) has a leading glottal stop, distinguishing it from ℵ which I was taught doesn't. Most people ... (more) |
— | almost 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281502 |
Sometimes questions fit more than one community. We see that with Math/Physics sometimes, for example. This question could be asked either here or on Judaism. Here it will attract linguistics-based answers; there it would attract religion-based ones. Both are valid approaches. (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #281018 |
Thank you for this analysis! I hadn't realized this syntax also showed up in the US midwest. I also never thought to ask whether the word ("washed" in this case) was verbal or adjectival. (I *love* that article title by Dr. Edelstein.) (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280972 |
I don't know enough about linguistics to know if this rises to the level of a *dialect*, but that tag exists and "regional-variations" doesn't, so I started with "dialects". (more) |
— | about 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280383 |
@Moshi we can create the category on request -- need a name and a short description (the text that appears at the top of the posts list). Some other communities have "challenges" categories, so consider that but don't feel bound by it if the approach here is different. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
I disbelieve the checks explanation. It's just as easy to add numbers at the end as at the beginning. I don't know how checks were written historically, but when writing checks by hand in the US in my lifetime, we don't write the symbol at all -- there's a place to write the number and another to w... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280305 |
$ before but cents symbol after, for extra chaos. (I don't mean $0.99, but rather 99c (where that's the symbol, which I don't know how to add here). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #280041 |
I don't think it's intentional; we probably just overlooked a check there in the notifications code. You don't get a notification if you comment on your own post, right? (Please comment here and let me know if you got a notification.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
@JirkaHanika congratulations; you are now a moderator. Please see the "so you're a moderator now" topic in the help. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279244 |
@Moshi congratulations; you are now a moderator. Please see the "so you're a moderator now" topic in the help. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279282 |
No need to delete. It's part of the record, and the decisions are being made by humans not robots. :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277071 |
@Conrado the vision will likely evolve over time, and we can adapt as the community's wishes change. There was discussion on the [proposal for this community](https://meta.codidact.com/questions/276701), and now that the community exists, this Meta category is the best place to continue those discu... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279290 |
@Lundin no, authors own the *copyright*, and must grant SE an irrevocable *license* to use the material in the ways defined in their TOS. You're not giving up your ownership by posting there (or here). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278822 |
Hello -- don't know if you've seen already, but you've been [nominated](https://languages.codidact.com/a/279236/279238) for a moderator position here. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #279238 |
I don't think that ping will work, as Jirka hasn't participated on this question. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278875 |
Is the difference between the two "already"? (My high-school Spanish isn't good enough for this.) I don't see that in the Hebrew original, for what that's worth. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278797 |
And somebody from Germany is a German, i.e. the change removes rather than adds characters. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #278158 |
Sorry, I meant that the rule might be "don't do it"; I didn't mean that as an example. :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277562 |
Thank you for reminding me that contractions can begin words, too. 'tisn't might be archaic but it's not unknown. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277378 |
Oh, I forgot that we'd published that! Hazard of seeing lots of stuff when it's still drafts, I guess. :-) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277281 |
@user53100 let's see what emerges, and remember that we can create links where needed. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277281 |
@user53100 I was focused there on resource lists, but I don't see why the category couldn't have multiple posts per language if they're for different purposes. A list of resources for learning a language is different from a description of a grammatical element (like the system of *binyanim* in Hebre... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277283 |
I don't know if my use of the historical-linguistics tag is correct here. (I was looking for "history" and that came up.) (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277260 |
@user53100 oh that's a good approach too; create the stub *as* the request. I'll create the category and then the community can experiment with this. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277086 |
If you're thinking of this as answering resource-request questions, that sounds to me like it should be part of the general Q&A category. On the other hand, if you're thinking of *cultivating* a set of resources, an on-site library or wiki or something, that would make sense as a separate category, ... (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
@Moshi thanks; a dictionary entry is helpful. I see that says it's British informal English. Are there others too or just "I'd've"? I'm curious about the pattern (if there is one). (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
@DonielF I write like this casually, but sometimes comment on it being quirky and I don't know that I've seen it outside of casual writing (like chat and email), and that got me wondering if it's a niche quirk or more widespread/accepted. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277108 |
@Moshi thanks; I had not heard of "double contractions" and that didn't come up in my search. (more) |
— | over 3 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277097 |
I hadn't thought about it until you brought it up, but Hebrew *trop* is an edge case here. The *trop* symbols have both musical and grammatical meanings. (Mind, I would ask those questions on Judaism where I think I'm more likely to find the right expertise, but sites can have overlapping scopes.) (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277071 |
For now I used: "Our community for anyone interested in specific (human) languages, language and its constructs more generally, or linguistics." I'm not a linguist, so I don't know if there's too much overlap between the second and third clauses. If y'all develop something better, it's pretty easy ... (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |
| Comment | Post #277079 |
And are we distinguishing between conlangs that already exist (like Esperanto) and ones that don't? Is Klingon a conlang that already esists? (more) |
— | almost 4 years ago |