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なるほど。自分自身はええと～…もう、この言葉をどの言語でも覚えない。初診で会った医者が足院に私を誘うように言うということを待ってる。どのぐらいかかるかなあ。巻き爪のような問題があるんだ。 Naruhodo. Jibun jishin wa ee too... Mō, kono kotoba wo dono gengo demo oboenai. Shoshin de atta isha ga ashi-in ni watashi wo sasou yō ni iu to iu koto wo matte ru. Dono gurai kakaru ka naa. Makizume no yō...

The creator of the Welsh Duolingo course said: Except that Welsh doesn't have possessive pronouns that meet this definition. Eg to say This car is mine , we have to use an emphatic sentence ' Fi sy biau'r bêl hon ' = It's me who owns this ball . So it makes more sense to refer to 'fy.....i' as a po...

seems pretty unlikely jmcd given that a) I'm pretty sure that usage is archaic at best and b) more importantly this was somebody who was presumably asked this question 'what is 'shorts' short for' specifically in order to prove to her that 'pants' is an acceptable word in spite of her semi-ironic di...

what finlay said But like, if someone asked me 'what is shorts short for' with a big smug 'lol wat r u gonna say now british man' grin on their face I would go 'well short trousers' I actually think 'short trousers' is a Real Usage, albeit maybe a slightly archaic one. I feel like posh people in per...

'Possessive adjectives' is also sometimes used to refer to the English set. It's a matter of analysis.

Imralu wrote: I have a British friend who likes to pretend that all other dialects are incorrect and I broke her by asking "What is shorts short for? What's the long form of that word?" She was like "Short ... pants, fuck you!"

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short trousers, obvs

we already have one of these

viewtopic.php?f=4&t=42393&hilit=SAE+grammar

I'm going to heavily revise th Sionian scenario. After reading a bit about metallurgy, I decided that the Amerind nearby New Sion learn bronze working, but not iron working. Also, I may have had extremely unrealistic ideas of how large New Sion's pre-immigration population is. Yes, though perhaps S...

Anyone else find themselves voicing the initial consonant of facility ? Yes, I can confirm that I do this. But isn't this more or less an established American English thing? As in "little," "at all," "water," etc. ???????????????? the initial consonant I was wondering if others here often hear or u...

I didn't think of early exposure! That could work even better, but I think that one crucial reason for why the Black Plague was so devastating was because it was introduced through several routes and was sometimes reintroduced to a recovering area. There were also lots of wars and trading that spre...

My post wasn't intended as an attack on anybody. I don't know enough about Semitic languages to have a trustworthy opinion on whether the reality or the unreality of triconsonantal roots explains their linguistic features more elegantly. Based on what I've seen so far, the idea that, at least in Ar...

All wanky metaphysical and non-metaphysical objections aside, I don't think we were really talking about the ~~~reality~~~ of triconsonantal roots. As far as I can tell, that was standing in for a discussion on the most elegant analysis of how these languages work. Anyway, I liked Yng's comment, but...

Well the point about them not being real is that words are derived from other words, not just from roots with a given meaning plugged into templates with another given meaning - that is, the plural of maktab 'library', which is makaatib is clearly derived from the singular, for example. Also that th...

does this help: viewtopic.php?p=1092290#p1092290

?? you mean in America you're taught to use the 'royal we'????? the term 'royal we' as far as I am aware is just when the queen (or occasionally someone else, like margaret thatcher) uses 'we' when they mean 'I' what you two are doing is using 'we' in some sort of mysterious broad 'we are the world'...

Abi wrote:So was it a conscious decision to make a fluttery sounding language have such a brutish looking orthography? Half the words look like Klingon to me.

then you probably don't really know what klingon looks like

Hm, that was my dictionary's first suggestion for "suppose/think". What's better then, "mae'n debyg", "am wn i", or something else? meddwl . Tybio works too (you can find plenty of examples of it being used for 'to think' like this on Google, which I was actually a bit surprised by) but most common...

Tydy eira ddim yn b eth yn Awstralia, 'blaw yn y mynyddoedd a lawr i'r de. Be' bynnag, dw i'n tybio bo ni'n tueddu i alw stormydd eira 'n "blizzards". tybio? that's some dialect stuff right there... gallu is 'be able to', not 'call' - we say galw rhywun yn . The structure dim eira ydy peth is... uh...

No, but it would affect the pronunciation of cellar door that he found so attractive.

Yeah, I'm also confused. There's no semantic difference between verbnouns that are formed with the bare stem and verbnouns formed with suffixes. They're all verbnouns. There's a lot of different suffixes ( -ed as in cerdded , -eg as in rhedeg , -u , -o , - io , -i etc) but they're all similar in ter...

Because 'die' is intransitive and 'cook' is not.

The construction you're talking about is for transitive verbs. Y ci wedi'i ladd for example would be 'the killed dog'. The verbnoun + possessive pronoun construction, as you know, generally expresses a verbnoun and its object - not its subject. For intransitive verbs, the equivalent construction has...

Y penwythnos hwn bydda i'n mynd i hen parti (mae dynion eraill yn dod hefyd ) ac yn y dechrau roeddwn i'n becsio y byddai'n tacky gyda hetiau cowgirl a pidynnau plastig ond dw i'n meddwl nawr ein bod ni'n d ringo ac wedyn dydd Sadwrn byddwn ni'n mynd i yfed a dawnsio ac bydd hynny'n hwyl. byddai do...

Mae gwyliau'r gaea yn dechrau fan'ma cyn hir hefyd (er m o f i'n barod ar w yliau achos dw i yn y brifysgol). Winter holidays start here soon too (although I'm already on holidays because I'm at uni.) Mae'n etholiadau ffederal ni'n dechrau dd ydd Sadwrn hefyd. Maen nhw'n siwr i fod yn hwyl! :roll: ...

Dw i'm yn darllen llyfrau cymaint â darllen isdeitlau mewn gemau fideo, ffilmiau a rhaglenni teledu. Yr unig broblem ydy s'dim llawer o'r rheina (sy) efo isdeitlau yn y r ieithoedd gwn i. (not at all sure how to phrase that last sentence) I don't read books so much as read subtitles in video games,...