I'm a big fan of discovering sentences that can be rapped very quickly. For example, "gotta read a little bit of Wikipedia" or "don't wanna wind up in the gutter with a bottle of malt." (George Watsky)
I want to write a computer program that can find words and combinations of words that can be s...
In one song the line "Watashitachi no kore ga precious heartbeat" ("It's our precious heartbeat") appears, and I'm not sure how best to analyze it due to one particular grammatical structure.
"kore ga precious heartbeat" is clearly a straightforward verbless copula - "it's our precious heartbeat...
In Does Legalizing Prostitution Work?, the author says that even after prostitution is legal, a lot of women are still forced into prostitution.
These women are Amsterdam's leading tourist attraction (followed by the coffee shops that sell marijuana). But an estimated 50 to 90 percent of them...
I may be mistaken, but I think mon ancien professeur means my former teacher, as opposed to mon professeur ancien which means my elderly teacher.
Is this correct? And what if anything is the difference between ma jolie femme and ma femme jolie?
Are there many French adjectives whose meaning cha...
In one song the line "Watashitachi no kore ga precious heartbeat" ("It's our precious heartbeat") appears, and I'm not sure how best to analyze it due to one particular grammatical structure.
"kore ga precious heartbeat" is clearly a straightforward verbless copula - "it's our precious heartbeat...
It seems to happen pretty often that the answers to a question will use concepts that weren't explicitly mentioned in the question itself. For instance, I noticed this in a recent question about free word order languages: the question didn't mention pragmatic concepts like topic, focus, definite...
Question copied from here.
Where could I find examples of words and their etymologies that occur frequently in many different languages?
For example, I know that the English word "Mother" shares a similar etymology with many other languages from civilizations across the globe.
Is there an onli...
If I correctly understand the pretty graph in the about section, this site is also supposed to serve as a forum, yet I am getting the impression that discussions are discouraged and the simple question-answer model preferred. So I want to ask you if you think it's OK to post a question which clea...
If I correctly understand the pretty graph in the about section, this site is also supposed to serve as a forum, yet I am getting the impression that discussions are discouraged and the simple question-answer model preferred. So I want to ask you if you think it's OK to post a question which clea...
I may be mistaken, but I think mon ancien professeur means my former teacher, as opposed to mon professeur ancien which means my elderly teacher.
Is this correct? And what if anything is the difference between ma jolie femme and ma femme jolie?
Are there many French adjectives whose meaning cha...
Question copied from here.
Where could I find examples of words and their etymologies that occur frequently in many different languages?
For example, I know that the English word "Mother" shares a similar etymology with many other languages from civilizations across the globe.
Is there an onli...
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