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As another 2p in the pot, German appears to be at an earlier stage of this development. Inflected prepositions are pretty clearly contractions of conjunction + article , where the inflection comes from the article. Examples include zur in zur Tur ("to the door", dative feminine) = zu + dative femini...

Vijay wrote:You mean like what Sal wrote?

Derp derp. Thank you! I looked at the wrong [quote="..."] value. Fixed.

Heard. Especially: Japanese elides implied words. Never understood, practically. Me, seems every word serves functions; sentences hardly make sense, eliding. Not sure about you, but I could hardly understand that post without looking at my original post. 完全に染みるまで頭脳を日本語の考え方に浸かれば、サルモネウスさんが書いた変な英語でもすん...

In some cases, using the wrong pitch results in a completely different word: like 以外 iꜜgai and 意外 igai! One of my favorite machine translation goofs was of a phrase: 違和感ないか ( iwakan nai ka , "isn't there something odd / incongruent / unharmonious [about the current subject of discussion]?"). The pr...

Pitch accent in Japanese can be fun. It's vaguely analogous to stress in English; but that's mostly because stress in English usually correlates with a higher pitch on the stressed syllable. Anyway, very early on I'd mis-learned Japanese pitch as being stress, and had also mis-learned some of the pa...

"Vocabulary list for Old Japanese?" What it says on the tin. It doesn't have to be super extensive, but the more terms that better of course. I've found a smattering of vocabulary in different places with different levels of confidence, but I'm just wondering if there's somewhere that has a large c...