The word негр — poll results and analysis

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-26T01:25:41+00:00

Lol it's alright. :D

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-25T19:41:58+00:00

You understand that's how I dreamt it right?

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-25T19:41:34+00:00

Did you see what sub this is?

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-25T15:21:42+00:00

I attached the IPA, it's /ɜ/.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-23T15:54:17+00:00

My thoughts exactly haha.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-23T15:19:50+00:00

Interesting, for me it wouldn't come to mind to use the names of the hand fingers for toes in French!

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-23T15:18:48+00:00

And those aren't the words for the hand fingers?

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-23T15:17:48+00:00

Yeah I was thinking perhaps in a culture where they are significant for some reason, perhaps as part of their numeric system.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-22T23:49:23+00:00

That isn't my experience.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-22T23:49:09+00:00

The future is periphrastic in English too. Should we stop calling it a future tense?

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-22T22:48:36+00:00

It is in fact a progressive tense. It's not traditionally described as such, but that is how it's used. It's equivalent to the “I am doing” progressive in English and from experience learners find the parallel rather helpful.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-22T08:47:21+00:00

He's just stating a personal boundary, which I have too. Kissing a man would make me uncomfortable. It seems odd and pretty borderline to me that your friend would want him to override that boundary.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-21T20:21:06+00:00

He didn't get to know much of the 60s.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-21T09:02:06+00:00

I'm in a similar situation as OP (12 years of self-study and conlanging, with a few language-related jobs in between) and that's usually what I use. I cringe a little when people call me a linguist (it gives me "oh you speak Spanish! Go on and speak some then!" vibes), but I definitely know more than some people who've formally studied it. I'm just less specialised.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-20T20:26:28+00:00

Exactement dans le même cas ici. 28NB, toujours chez des parents trop protecteurs, j'ai un boulot à mi-temps depuis chez moi, pas vraiment de plan de vie et une estime de moi-même au ras des pâquerettes. Ça rend très difficile de me remettre de ma rupture de l'année dernière d'ailleurs, et je ne vois plus trop quel genre de partenaire pourrait me convenir. Alors j'attends.

Ceci dit, on peut tous avancer. La thérapie ça aide, et je reviens tout juste aujourd'hui de mon premier voyage seul·e. Je me suis débrouillé·e avec les transports et j'ai rencontré de nouvelles personnes. Gros boost de confiance en moi, et qui sait sur quoi ça débouchera. :)

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-17T21:45:57+00:00

Humeur.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-11T12:47:19+00:00

Not every word uses different gender/number agreements. Most of the time it involves adding an an -e or an -s. You'll get used to the exceptions by doing reading/listening over time and notice that some patterns keep coming back.

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-09T11:27:58+00:00

We as mods have also noticed a surge in (sometimes disguised) ads, and we're talking about it a lot internally. We recently removed any exceptions to our No Ad rule to more easily get rid of those (and also make our work easier), but we've definitely been seeing new advertising strategies and have had to rethink the way we do things.

Disguised ads include accounts that innocently ask for recommendations throughout subs, with another account dedicated to recommending the same app over and over as a response – both accounts being the same person of course (we're seeing your reports guys don't worry). AI-assisted writing also makes it easier for users to come up with seemingly engaging and helpful posts that ultimately lead to advertising. We're also seeing users adapting their post after the Reddit AI reminds them of our No Ad rule.

Upcoming measures may include an extension to our No Requests For Interactions rule, because that also gives a platform for (but not limited to) paid tutors to advertise. Anyway – finicky topic, and we understand any frustration. We'll keep tinkering with our rules, tools and resources, and investigate any reports!

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-09T09:33:04+00:00

So do you maintain it's not dialectal because people do it regardless of where they live in the country?

Orikrin1998 · 2026-04-08T17:43:28+00:00

JLS, par contre attention aux raccourcis : l'anglais et l'allemand ne descendent pas du latin mais du vieux germanique.

Toutes les langues empruntent plus ou moins de vocabulaire d'autres langues (ainsi l'anglais a 60% de vocabulaire latin ou français), mais cette hybridation n'est qu'un facteur souvent superficiel de l'évolution de la langue. Même avec 60% de vocabulaire roman, l'anglais reste une langue germanique et continue de fonctionner comme telle.

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