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Tsundoku

Jul 12, 2022 12:54

The worst is the Terrible Twos, when they're always throwing things and shrieking, "forsooth, to bed thou shalt not take me, cur!"

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HsMjstyMstdn

Oct 17, 2017 14:13

Practice Midterm says "Extra Credit: Perform the sickle dance of the Austrian honeybee. You will be graded by how well your classmates understand you."
🤔🤔🤔🤔🤔

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curiousdannii

Aug 25, 2020 22:55

Wow: reddit.com/r/Scotland/comments/ig9jia/…

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Anonymous

Dec 22, 2013 17:15

This chat room is fun.

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jk - Reinstate Monica

Sep 5, 2022 11:32

I'd like to alert you to this project by the well-known sculptor Vera Röhm:

https://www.vitabuvingi.de/?page_id=3604

The goal is to obtain translations from 2000 languages of the world of the above statement: "The night is the shadow of the earth". I by chance met the guy who collects the translations, Eric Giebel. Please contact him, if you think you can provide/obtain additional translations. The languages covered already are listed here:

https://www.vitabuvingi.de/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/uebersetzerliste_a_z.pdf

Eric

Aug 25, 2022 06:42

In spite of that, I find it difficult to link what I am reading - the bare words and phrases - with any actual meaning if I do not parse the text.
Is this a problem any of you have faced - if not, are there any recorded cases of this problem? Are there people whose brains cannot link syntax with semantics?
Secondly, how can I rectify this problem? I have only had this problem for a year; before that, I had little difficulty understanding what I was reading. I am sure there are better ways of retaining information than parsing (which can often be headache-inducing).

Eric

Aug 25, 2022 06:41

When reading for pleasure, I often find myself parsing the text I am reading, trying to understand its syntax. This I do to understand the meaning of the text; indeed, parsing has helped me to better retain information. But it is not convenient whatsoever, and in all honesty it takes the pleasure out of reading.

AncientSwordRage

Jul 18, 2022 22:15

@Tsundoku kids do love pie

user6726

Dec 28, 2020 00:14

Hair-splitting is kind of offensive. It's also kind of offensive to criticize a person for ending a sentence with a preposition or saying "ain't". I should also point out that two wrongs don't make a right. If a person does not make a distinction between the 99 kinds of writing systems because they don't consider the differences to be

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user6726

Dec 25, 2020 21:43

It's always a mistake to insist "you're using the wrong word, you need to use these words from some foreign language / alien discipline". Your point probably got lost over an unimportant issue, namely whether you should import words from another language in order to talk about simple ideas.

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TRiG

Jun 11, 2017 23:43

@lemontree I don't know what "Sanskrit is language of attributes with no proper nouns" means, but I suspect it's bullshit.

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AncientSwordRage

Mar 27, 2022 12:57

How Different Are Russian and Ukrainian???

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Martin Sleziak

Feb 5, 2022 06:52

When you say "I think English is the easiest language when it comes to pronunciation", let me respectfully but vehemently disagree. English is full of consonant clusters and has more diphthongs than words. Its pronunciation is not "easy" in any objective terms, and, if anything, it is Japanese pronunciation that can be claimed to be objectively easy, as the language is very strictly limited to a CV structure with just a couple of exceptions. — LjL May 2 '17 at 14:16

lemontree

Oct 8, 2016 00:11

BTW, when this is clarified, I'd consider it appropriate for HizHa to apologize for all the insults against me.

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Tsundoku

Sep 6, 2021 20:03

The 2021 moderator election started just two minutes ago.

Zignd

Jun 23, 2012 01:20

I do not understand the purpose of this conversation. Are you guys philosophizing about anything?

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Matt E. Эллен

Aug 18, 2021 07:34

@NikeDattani yeah :D I didn't want to summon a mod for such a trivial request, so I rolled the dice in here. After scrutinising the help centre I've decided not to migrate

David Wallace

Oct 19, 2016 09:28

@HizHa I find your last comment really quite offensive. You're backhandedly insulting someone, while knowing that the victim of your insult is probably not going to come here and reply to you. I'm sure all the users of this room would appreciate it if you could keep your comments constructive and positive.

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lemontree

Oct 7, 2016 22:28

@HizHa I am seriously shocked and a little confused now. I was trying to help you, spending a lot of time on my answer and hoping your problem was now resolved, and suddenly I read you're making an appeal for everyone to collect how "abusive" and "insulting" I've been throughout the past. At the moment I can't think of much more than "Umm, what?" and "Wow, now *this* is insulting."
It seems like the whole point you are basing your outrage on was the word "prediction". Would you please explain how this makes my answer an insult?! "Prediction" means simply that you made an assumption about ho…

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Anaphory

Jul 23, 2018 15:01

> O, contrain je m'emboulle,
Taquilosse, comme ou jalle?
O, cotrain, polissoule
O madame, coulon valle!
Il est trosque, il est bouge,
A ma creve qui pis vrai
O, madame, o tonuche
O madame, o tome rain

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Anaphory

Jul 23, 2018 15:00

> Oko trę, że mam ból
Taki los komu żal ?
oko trę, pali sól
O madame, kulą wal
Ile trosk, ile burz,
a krew kipi, wre ,
O madame, oto nóż
O, madame, oto mrę

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HsMjstyMstdn

Feb 11, 2018 09:48

But at a level of abstraction/complexity/scrutiny higher, an infelicitous statement is one that violates one of the four Gricean maxims, with the assumption that what you're analysing, be it a discourse or conversation or utterance, follows Grice's Cooperative Principle. You can look these up to learn more.

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Becky 李蓓

Sep 14, 2020 05:06

Crash Course linguistics!! What is Linguistics?: Crash Course Linguistics #1

WavesWashSands

Dec 31, 2017 17:56

Happy new year to you all! :3

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Cerberus

Sep 14, 2011 02:28

You know what's annoying? I don't feel like I can just answer something coherent to any question I see here.

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lemontree

Nov 2, 2017 08:36

In chat, pretty much anything is okay as long as it keeps this room from dying ;)

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David Wallace

Oct 2, 2012 01:55

@Mechanicalsnail "Australian English diphthongs" seems like a pleonasm to me.

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David Wallace

Apr 19, 2017 11:08

Why is it that whenever I see the word velocipede, I imagine something that's part velociraptor, part centipede?

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lemontree

Dec 24, 2016 17:42

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David Wallace

Oct 19, 2016 19:03

Magnetic shoes, guys. We just have to be careful not to jump when we're outside.

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Alenanno

Oct 19, 2016 14:08

@Cerberus Yes. That's what the scientists are hiding from us!!1!!eleven!

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Alenanno

Oct 19, 2016 12:26

@HizHa As @curiousdannii said, please stop bringing up vague — and unsubstantiated — accusations along with inflammatory statements that you're posting here in chat. If you want to discuss on this issue civilly, post on Meta so that any interested (or even third) party can voice their point of view and solve this issue once and for all. Stirring up drama doesn't help anyone.

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Otavio Macedo

Apr 30, 2013 14:22

@MonicaCellio Feel free to "bother" us anytime you want :-)

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lemontree

Apr 11, 2019 12:23

Thank you very much for your inputs :) Looks like I'm not good at replying fast.

@WavesWashSands In my experience the university-wide carreer advisors are not very helpful because they are lacking the subject-specific knowledge, but of course I've talked to professors/people I've worked for. The tenor was that if I endeed enjoy diving into theory more than doing practical stuff, I should invest the few more years to do a PhD; I'm a few years younger compared the average graduate in my area about to start a PhD which I'm repeatedly being told I should take advantage of. From what I've heard…

lemontree

Mar 13, 2019 12:06

They do ;)
As for me, I'm somwehat in the middle of a little existential crisis... In short, now that I'm approaching the end of my M.A. I seriously regret having studied linguistics and have pretty much no idea what to do in a few months from now. My gut feeling tells me that I actually would like to stay in the academic field, I just think that this fits me better than some job in the industry and most of all I would seriously miss the teaching if I were to leave university, the tutoring is what I have enjoyed by far the most in my studies. But then again I've realized more and more in th…

Otavio Macedo

Jul 3, 2012 23:29

Oh, it's so beautiful to see how much you love each other, @David and @Gigili!

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Cerberus

May 13, 2012 09:18

Ale is tha best mod! Together with Otavio.

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Cerberus

Apr 1, 2012 06:06

Best April 1 ever!

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David Wallace

Mar 30, 2012 22:30

Odi et amo. quare id faciam, fortasse requiris?
nescio, sed fieri sentio et excrucior.

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Otavio Macedo

Feb 29, 2012 22:00

We rock! It's just that everyone else in the world didn't realize it yet

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hippietrail

Sep 14, 2011 22:04

german has a different r every time you cross a river

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hippietrail

Sep 14, 2011 18:39

macedonian turns out to be a controversial language. greece wants it to be a dialect of bulgarian

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Robusto

Dec 22, 2013 15:38

I have never made a serious attempt to divine the intentions of molluscs.

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Anonymous

Dec 22, 2013 12:51

It always feels like no one's here. It's psychological

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Anonymous

Dec 22, 2013 12:51

Whereas if you join and you can see someone just typed, oh, one line ago! That's pretty recent!

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curiousdannii

Jan 11, 2018 22:58

But London was always bigger than Paris, so it's interesting the French one spread so much more than the British. More government support maybe? I don't know.

Zacharý

Dec 31, 2017 18:29

There's a hat if you do something today

WavesWashSands

Dec 27, 2017 02:58

And Wiccan, I like the way you wear your hat :P

Cerberus

Nov 28, 2017 02:47

in CONLOQVIVM, 12 hours ago, by Joonas Ilmavirta

The Finnish broadcasting company YLE is discontinuing its Latin news. If you want them to reconsider, please consider signing this petition to continue Nuntii Latini.

Cerberus

Nov 13, 2017 22:54

@HsMjstyMstdn I'm sure most or all of the Indo-European languages that have a word with similar sounds are descended from the same root!

lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks

lɪŋˈgwɪstɪks