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T'enna | תאנה • proud Jew • ace lesbian • I talk about kotlc and dragon prince sometimes

[les-eat-bread]

taking the word "elites" away from academics until they can agree on what it means. you can't just say "elites".

[les-eat-bread]

cant read (relatively) old scholarship in public. If I say "are you stupid" out loud one more time I will get kicked out of the library.

[real-language-facts]

How many vowels is too many

1

[bookwyrminspiration]

nativist theory of language development was never meant to apply to humans. it actually comes from a gnome named chompsky who studied elven language development, but unfortunately during the human assistance program, someone misunderstood

[real-language-facts]

we must get together and create some sort of unsolved mathematical problem but for language

[scramratz]

I think people would be less suicidal if they were allowed to talk about being suicidal without risk of being sent to the Torture Dungeon

[real-language-facts]

when r they ognna start working on arabic 4

Arabic 4 is dead, it was pitched to Language Production Corporation in '84 but it's been stuck in development hell since around '85.

The main writer for Arabic 4 was busy with other projects and burned out with the Arabic series so he decided to work on Business English instead, and when they finally got him to sit down and write for it, the Language Production Corporation was in bad shape and the language ended up being tossed around from linguist to linguist and was never finished nor released. However, there's two early prototype builds of Arabic 4. They're technically speakable but many words aren't properly implemented yet.

[real-language-facts]

update: there IS a language called Arabic 4. however it is a 13 year old's language contest entry

[al-kol-eleh]

Eli Lebowicz

[fuzzytheduck]

[real-language-facts]

"thing" is the gerund of "the"

[magnetothemagnificent]

Which consonant in the English alphabet is most similar to "V" in your mind and what is your first/native language?

B

W

F

Other (which one?)

Voting ended onMay 3

[bookwyrminspiration]

sometimes ling homework feels very silly like i'm doing puzzles. im doing logic puzzles for homework

[real-language-facts]

a verb just jumped out of my trash and bit me im really scared do i need to get tested for conjugation

verbs don't carry a lot of diseases actually, if it was a noun then you'd have to get a vaccine or risk getting a bad case of the cases

[official-linguistics-post]

while nouns do carry a risk of cases, PLEASE do not dismiss a verb bite. depending on species, they can carry inflection (such as conjugation, as anon mentioned) or worse: derivation.

[snissel7]

guys this is really no joke in some places verbs can account for literally 100% of all derivation cases

[sketchjay]

Hello Jews on my phone. Pesach is over, but I want to hear your opinions

What's your favorite flavor for Crispy-O's

apple cinnamon

chocolate

honey

original

fruit

frosted

you forgot my favorite flavor! (tell me in the tags)

I don't like crispy os

I don't consider them kosher for pesach (are you chabbad?)

I've never had crispy os

I don't keep kosher for passover/results/bald

Voting ended onApr 17

[les-eat-bread]

THEY MAKE OTHER FLAVORS?!??!

[les-eat-bread]

This Sorcery and Small Magics audiobook reader's take on accents is driving me insane in the best way. Leo's accent is so posh and Grimm is very farmer without trying to sound otherwise. Any high class heir or better-than-you mannerisms that leave Leo suprised about Grimm's background exist ONLY IN LEO'S HEAD

[les-eat-bread]

Matzo (real photo)

[les-eat-bread]

nothing pulls me out of high fantasy like "oh my gods". invoking g-d or jesus or whatever only works as an expletive because it is (or was) a common taboo in our society and it's only a common taboo because of the commandment against taking g-d's name in vain perpetuated by christianity. In a world with no torah there is no "oh my g-d" and therefore no "oh my gods". The phrase "oh my g-d"-- if I evem noticr it at all-- I can write off as a translation quirk or whatever but to go to the effort of modifying it to fit a fantasy pantheon without noticing that it still makes no sense bothers me