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My experience in American grocery stores is that grape drink is just grape juice made cheaper by mixing it with sugar water. And is not called juice only because it's illegal to do so. In Serbian, coca-cola is a kind of juice? The English word salsa (as opposed to Spanish where it means sauce) shoul...

I was rather pleased with my reductify coinage. But you're probably referring to the plutonium-powered telephones (as seen in Popular Science ca. 1954). And to think people were worried cell phones might be dangerous.

I made the terms up. But I used what seems to be alignment jargon's productive morphology. Austronesianists take note! I'll continue my conlang-related thoughts in C&C to not clutter the Museum.

I saw the Wikipedia article, even noticed that the Austronesian alignment had the same three cases. But then I moved on because it seemed like the association of those cases with the focus/trigger system was an important part of the definition. I have now read the article more closely and it's close...

What would you all call this system? I have a lexical split between two semantic classes of verbs that appear in different transitive constructions. Using -x to indicate the cases: intransitive: S-s transitive: A-a P-s / A-s P-p The alignment of S is split, but its morphology is not. I usually see s...