Is there a word for double loanwords?
The only example I can think of right now isn't in English, but it should clarify what I mean.
Küçük, meaning small/young, the original Turkish word, was borrowed into Farsi and pronounced kuchak (also meaning small/young). Turkish re-borrowed kuckak as kö...
What is a difference between "try to do" and "try and do"?
To me (non-native English speaker) asking someone "try and do this" seems a bit rude. To me it's like saying "you can try all you want but at the end this must be done, try and fail not an option". While asking someone "try to do this" m...
> 1660 G. Duncombe Scutum Regale 379 Oh therefore let our distracted England be a warning-piece to all Nations, that they never attempt to Try and Judge their King, for what cause soever.
i wonder if one of us is actually going to make this into an answer this time?
@waiwai933 1 - it's a great question. 2 - it's a question about the word in English to describe a phenomenon. but 3 - it necessarily involves multiple languages at least one non-English, and 4 - it is localized technical vocabulary for linguistics. It should be migrated to linguistics.SE (the question could be made a little better by giving examples from English or from any other languages).
I'm reviewing a technical document, and one secton contains a list of consecutive nouns protected by copyright. I can understand occasional usage but the following excerpt seems excessive:
Is this necessary?
One of the more difficult things for even native speakers of English to learn is the correct use of contractions. To this day when I type it and want to follow with s I have to spend a fraction of a second reading the sentence out loud to see if it is will fit. Then there's the question of wher...
In French, phonemes like /e/ and /ɛ/ are so similar in sound. In English, phonemes like /o/ and /ɔ/ are just so similar too.
Brief is that, in almost any language, there are phonemes which are very similar to each other. The question is, how much does a listener lose comprehension, if a speaker ...
huh. i saw it the opposite. most of them aren't technical enough
looking at the current front page... the top two are v. good, the third is terrible, the next two are very mediocre, the next is arguably OT, and the next (about ergative/unaccusative) is very good
Japanese uses a writing system called Kanji, which is a moderated version of Chinese Hanzi. The Kanji characters are similar to or often the same as the corresponding Chinese character, with the same meaning. Koreans and Vietnamese had similar applications too.
In the Middle Ages, the Tangut and...
even though i've never heard you talk, i can state with > 95% confidence that you pronounce them the same, except when you're specifically being asked about the difference
if you ask someone "how do you pronounce X?", they'll say it differently than if you just record them without specifically asking them about pronunciation
@Cerberus the only time I use the trill is accidentally if I'm using the tap when emphasizing a sentence, like maybe if I say "that is totally ridiculous" instest of "that's..."