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Otavio Macedo
Otavio Macedo
01:14
good night, @Cerberus!
See you tomorrow
Cerberus
Cerberus
Night!
 
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Gigili
Gigili
14:27
@Cerberus: Have a minute?
 
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Stack Exchange
Stack Exchange
15:29
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Q: Does lip movement in sign language have a grammatical feature?

Serpil KarabüklüApart from manuals, also nonmanuals; such as head tilt or head shake have grammatical features in sign languages. They appear while asking questions or giving negation. Some lip movements are seen while people sign. I know that they do this to ease the convention of the meaning for their hearing...

signed-languages
 
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Cerberus
Cerberus
20:53
@Gigili Hi!
Gigili
Gigili
Ello Mr.ontime.
Cerberus
Cerberus
Am I?
Gigili
Gigili
Surely.
What does this mean:
Smoking kills

See 98% healthier way doing it
Um, sounds odd to my ears.
healthier way doing it
I always wondered, what does ELU has that we don't have here!
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@Cerberus @Cerberus @Cerberus
Wow, multi-pinging works well.
Cerberus
Cerberus
21:19
@Gigili Smoking kills is clear: if you smoke, this activity will/can kill you.
The second part is ungrammatical and unintelligible.
@Gigili Very true!
Gigili
Gigili
What does it mean anyway, please?
Never mind, we should ignore ungrammatical sentences.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Gigili No, I really don't understand it at all!
I am trying to speculate, but no possible meaning comes up that would make sense.
Perhaps ask in ELU after all...
 
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Alenanno
Alenanno
22:39
Hello @Cerberus @OtavioMacedo and @Gigili
Cerberus
Cerberus
Hi!
Alenanno
Alenanno
Can you do me a favor? Nothing expensive. :D
Read this question (ONLY the question body, not the answers) and then tell me, what do you think it's asking?
Gigili
Gigili
Ello ello.
Alenanno
Alenanno
Hey :)
Gigili
Gigili
The OP believed the Q is ambiguous and tried very hard to clarify
Cerberus
Cerberus
22:45
@Alenanno He's asking about words that have cognates in other languages.
Alenanno
Alenanno
@Cerberus Now read the comments under my answer :P
Cerberus
Cerberus
He thinks there are only a few of those, while in fact the great majority of the most common words have plenty of cognates.
@Alenanno OK.
Otavio Macedo
Otavio Macedo
Yeah, but it seem that what he's really trying to ask is about coincidences, not shared etymologies
I don't know, it's ambiguous
Alenanno
Alenanno
I asked you because I wanted to see if I interpreted the question the right way or not.
Cerberus
Cerberus
@OtavioMacedo Yeah, I was thinking about that; but "mother" is probably not a coincidence, but rather a group of cognate words across language-family boundaries. Or isn't it?
@Alenanno The question is pretty bad: you get the most out of it—more than I would have expected anyone to get out of it.
And the OP doesn't seem too interested in linguistics: she doesn't really care about the issues raised in your answer and the comments.
Alenanno
Alenanno
22:51
She?
Cerberus
Cerberus
This is one of the three times ever that I have voted a question on Linguistics down.
@Alenanno Oh, you think it's a he?
Alenanno
Alenanno
@Cerberus I don't know? :D How/why did you feel it is a she?
Cerberus
Cerberus
@Alenanno Her name ends on -la...
But who knows.
I know many Russian diminutive masculine names end on -a.
Gigili
Gigili
Like vanilla.
Alenanno
Alenanno
Exactly... :D Who knows. :P
@Gigili Vanilla?
Gigili
Gigili
22:55
Uhum, that's what I said.
Alenanno
Alenanno
Yes but... Vanilla is a name?
Gigili
Gigili
No but it ends on -la, at least.
Alenanno
Alenanno
:P
Gigili
Gigili
It's really cool, reminds me of cakes.
Alenanno
Alenanno
Sasha (саша) is the diminutive of Aleksandr (Александр) in Russian.
Anyway, time for me to go now... Will try to talk to y'all more next time, promised! :D
Night everyone!
Cerberus
Cerberus
22:59
Bye!
Gigili
Gigili
@Alenanno YOU PROMISED! Good night.

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