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English & Linguistics / Funny spellchecker suggestions
« on: March 01, 2005, 08:23:15 AM »
Well, in her version she was setting fire to them.
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English & Linguistics / Funny spellchecker suggestions
« on: February 28, 2005, 08:44:40 PM »
I'm pretty sure he was putting them out, thus he "jumped up and down on top of the pile of smouldering homosexuals."
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English & Linguistics / Funny spellchecker suggestions
« on: February 23, 2005, 06:08:30 AM »
:snort:
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English & Linguistics / Pronunciation question
« on: February 07, 2005, 11:37:58 AM »
I thought untowards meant something different from (not) towards. Doesn't it mean shady?
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English & Linguistics / Derivational morphology (a game)
« on: February 04, 2005, 02:57:48 PM »Quote
How could we forget nerdkins?For some reason this evokes an image of Jon Boy and Ruth's firstborn sitting alone in a shopping cart.
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English & Linguistics / Derivational morphology (a game)
« on: February 04, 2005, 01:49:14 PM »
Don't forget nerdkins.
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English & Linguistics / Pronunciation question
« on: February 04, 2005, 10:08:04 AM »
So you're saying there is no difference?
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English & Linguistics / Pronunciation question
« on: February 03, 2005, 08:10:54 PM »
Okay, so what is the difference between toward and towards? Is one an adverb and the other a preposition?
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English & Linguistics / Pronunciation question
« on: February 02, 2005, 09:37:16 AM »
As long as you aren't saying "2 werd"
I say t'word. How that would be counted depends on who was doing the counting. I don't think I usually have an audible vowel after the t, but there is a puf of aspiration. I'm not saying tword.
Is "towards" a real word or just a common habit?
I say t'word. How that would be counted depends on who was doing the counting. I don't think I usually have an audible vowel after the t, but there is a puf of aspiration. I'm not saying tword.
Is "towards" a real word or just a common habit?
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English & Linguistics / An editing question - now a question on quotations
« on: January 26, 2005, 06:55:54 PM »
I wouldn't be in your shoes for all the tea in China.
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English & Linguistics / An editing question - now a question on quotations
« on: January 26, 2005, 04:35:44 PM »
I wouldn't personally mess with the Pipe. What if it "Medicine"s me?
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English & Linguistics / This might be the hardest thing I have ever done
« on: January 21, 2005, 12:41:39 PM »
>.<
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English & Linguistics / I don't know what to believe anymore
« on: January 17, 2005, 03:46:56 PM »
I just find it distressing that Brinestone is being expected to learn grammar from this professor and there is no higher authority to which the professor is accountable. At least, that's what I think I gathered from the first couple of posts. I say just keep you head down and say "Yes sir" and then get on with your life.
Annie, I think you mean "Would that the subjunctive mood may return."
And what in the GreNME is with dissecting the whole post in little quotes?
Annie, I think you mean "Would that the subjunctive mood may return."
And what in the GreNME is with dissecting the whole post in little quotes?
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English & Linguistics / Linguists Gone Wild!
« on: January 12, 2005, 06:08:28 AM »
There is a town called American Fork, that it was joked the locals called American Fark.
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English & Linguistics / Linguistically Complete
« on: January 07, 2005, 06:18:42 AM »
Well, I forget why it is but for some reason the Arabic situation isn't just that there isn't a "to be" verb. It's that the pronoun word for third person singular means more than just a pronoun. The first person pronoun is marked for gender. Everything is marked for gender.
Maybe it's that the pronoun is used even if the noun is already in the sentence. Perhaps something like:
Methuselah he mighty old.
Maybe it's that the pronoun is used even if the noun is already in the sentence. Perhaps something like:
Methuselah he mighty old.
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English & Linguistics / Linguistically Complete
« on: January 06, 2005, 08:11:37 PM »
Arabic just combines the to be with a pronoun. How often do you need a pronoun without a "be" verb?
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English & Linguistics / Linguistically Complete
« on: January 04, 2005, 10:17:24 PM »
Um, yeah. Sign being a complete language is one of the tenets you must swear to for acceptance into the secret brotherhood of linguists. Oops. I had a roommate in college who served a mission to the deaf and we talked about it a lot.
So when we are talking of a pidgin, this means a language learned by an adult to get along just as well as they need to with another population that speaks a different language. Then creolization generally occurs with the next generation, and describes the languages of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I suppose this may have been an issue Card had to address books 5 and 6 of the Alvin Maker series. Rien would have been a pidgin speaker while Marie would have been more of a creole speaker. I have no idea whether he got it right.
It also explains the manner in which Black English, while seemingling grammatically poor, is actually linguistically complete. There are grammatical rules to the ways in which it diverges from "standard" English. While I recognize this, I don't think it helps kids to conduct their education in that language with the possible exception of learning math.
I think Sign is essentially a creolization as well. It began as a translation of whatever language, but whenever kids learn a language their brains fill in grammatical elements that were missing if the language being taught them is not "linguistically complete". At least, this is what they were teaching when I was in college.
Some deafness occurs along with other mental disabilities, which is why deaf people are so sensitive about the issue.
So when we are talking of a pidgin, this means a language learned by an adult to get along just as well as they need to with another population that speaks a different language. Then creolization generally occurs with the next generation, and describes the languages of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. I suppose this may have been an issue Card had to address books 5 and 6 of the Alvin Maker series. Rien would have been a pidgin speaker while Marie would have been more of a creole speaker. I have no idea whether he got it right.
It also explains the manner in which Black English, while seemingling grammatically poor, is actually linguistically complete. There are grammatical rules to the ways in which it diverges from "standard" English. While I recognize this, I don't think it helps kids to conduct their education in that language with the possible exception of learning math.
I think Sign is essentially a creolization as well. It began as a translation of whatever language, but whenever kids learn a language their brains fill in grammatical elements that were missing if the language being taught them is not "linguistically complete". At least, this is what they were teaching when I was in college.
Some deafness occurs along with other mental disabilities, which is why deaf people are so sensitive about the issue.
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English & Linguistics / Soda vs. Pop map
« on: January 03, 2005, 04:10:09 PM »
I like limonita. I like orangina also. I saw some guarana on sale at the store. Can't recall which one. Macey's?
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English & Linguistics / Soda vs. Pop map
« on: December 27, 2004, 03:47:51 PM »
The only degree in which I could agree that soda and pop refer to different things is in the case of club soda. I guess you really bought into that Shasta commercial that was on a bit back in the mid-80s.
This is what's wrong with linguistic research. People are going to make stuff up. Sexquid indeed.
This is what's wrong with linguistic research. People are going to make stuff up. Sexquid indeed.
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English & Linguistics / Soda vs. Pop map
« on: December 23, 2004, 02:21:50 PM »
Yup, that's interesting. The lone yellow county in Utah appears to the the most populous Salt Lake County, which would have many transplanted Utahns. Ditto the Florida coast and Chicago environs. What's really odd is where there will be an isolated, very dark red county here and there. Wonder what's up with that. And I wonder what the "other" terms are. Pepsi? Bromide? Satan's brew?
Edit: duh, why did I say Chicago? It's clearly up in Lake Michigan. But, uh... yeah. That's probably bagged milk territory anyway.
Edit: duh, why did I say Chicago? It's clearly up in Lake Michigan. But, uh... yeah. That's probably bagged milk territory anyway.
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English & Linguistics / Dialect Map
« on: December 21, 2004, 03:07:52 PM »
The "new hotness" also came up blank.
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English & Linguistics / Dialect Map
« on: December 21, 2004, 12:46:15 PM »
I got a blank screen on this computer. Which is "dat old'n busted joint". Windows 98.
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English & Linguistics / Learning new words
« on: December 18, 2004, 07:46:05 PM »
Sketch doesn't apply. Unless by sketch you mean skit.
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English & Linguistics / Learning new words
« on: December 17, 2004, 04:34:52 PM »
What is a pastiche? Meg doesn't know either. She says it's like maybe a literary potpourri? Why do the french have so many danged words for the same stupid thing? Melange? Collage? Pastiche? Potpourri? Montage? I guess they have a right to be proud that they don't use the English Hodgepodge. It has the intent of being satirical. She says Shrek II was a pastiche of the works of Disney and other stuff.
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