@Cerberus I made the analogy with propound and proponent to get to exponent, but I neglected to take the next step to proposition to find exposition.
Betrays lack of basic knowledge in Latin, among other things.
BTW, I wonder if those different nouns have different names, like action noun for exposition and actor noun for exponent, or names along those lines. They probably have their own appellations in Latin, right?
They do in Farsi and Arabic.
(I didn't mean that exposition was a Latin word, but that there prolly are analogous "action nouns" and so on in Latin)
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Hey @Mitch let's bet on the outcome of your 2020 election early on.
If you feel so disposed.
And if you're willing to bet, say, 1000 points.
Or more or less.
Anything less than 100 would be pointless tho. And I have only 3000 points, so no more than that.
It's 2019. Why hasn't google books updated its corpus to closer to now? Does this mean GB was just a summer intern project that got forgotten on some server?
People have questions about word frequency about words that have shown up in the past 10 years. And GB doesn't have any idea that they exist. At all.
their update to 2012 (the main corpora are 2018) just doesn't cut it.
Also, I'm talking to the void. Nobody cares.
And the people who might care aren't listening.
And the people who might listen are deaf.
And the people who might deaf are mos def.
And Mos Def hasn't been active lately. What was the last movie he's been in?
> [17] The great orthographical contest has long subsisted between etymology and pronunciation. It has been demanded, on one hand, that men should write as they speak; but, as it has been shown that this conformity never was attained in any language, and that it is not more easy to persuade men to agree exactly in speaking than in writing, it may be asked, with equal propriety, why men do not rather speak as they write.
I assume for Johnson to make such a claim that he'd have to know a little about a fair sampling of languages and he makes explicit reference to french, but I'll try to see what Webster wrote about it, since I know he studied dozens.
Where's @tchrist when you need him. Profile says "Last seen 6s ago". Is he stalking us? Or did SE forget how spelling works and the s stands for senturies?
I am translating a refrain from spanish, "Ahí fue Troya". The meaning of that is something like "Then a big trouble started". I was wondering if you know some nice expression I can use in english as this is a fiction writing, so nice style and wording is very important.
I very strongly disagree with your statement: “The problem is that to have one letter represent every possible sound would probably require more letters than can be easily remembered.” Kenyon and Knott used only 33 symbols for their phonemic alphabet for American English referenced by John Lawler here. The actual problem is that there are incalculably many completely valid and distinct ways to pronounce a word depending on region, accent, education, speaker, situation, &c&c&c, yet just few standardized ways of writing it. Writing is frozen. — tchrist ♦5 hours ago
@RegDwigнt It doesn't explain where he has been five seconds ago but I suppose that answers your question? XP
I'm trying to figure out how I should address that comment right now. I have some basis for my claims, but they aren't especially convincing and they deviate from the scope of the question.
I am translating a refrain from spanish, "Ahí fue Troya". The meaning of that is something like "Then a big trouble started". I was wondering if you know some nice expression I can use in english as this is a fiction writing, so nice style and wording is very important.
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…
English Language & Usage: Multi-Layer…