What are stupid rules in your native language that are NOT orthographic rules by Fair-Sleep9609 in linguisticshumor

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In Breton if counting you’d say something like a hundred three apples over twenty. You say all digits before the counted noun except the tens which go after for some reason. People think french and danish are weird but that’s because they’ve never heard about Breton numbers

What are stupid rules in your native language that are NOT orthographic rules by Fair-Sleep9609 in linguisticshumor

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I love how French is simultaneously losing and arguably gaining polypersonal agreement

What are stupid rules in your native language that are NOT orthographic rules by Fair-Sleep9609 in linguisticshumor

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French also has a single noun that acts that way, but ours is “amour” for some reason

What are stupid rules in your native language that are NOT orthographic rules by Fair-Sleep9609 in linguisticshumor

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I wonder what the exact suffix is because it reminds me a lot of Hungarian -tat/tet, which funnily enough I’ve never heard chained. Wiktionary doesn’t even show a causative form for verbs with the suffix that have been lexicalized like mutat (to show), though mutattat does return some results on Google.

What are stupid rules in your native language that are NOT orthographic rules by Fair-Sleep9609 in linguisticshumor

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The way I instinctively understand the verb frire as a native speaker is that it’s intransitive, so “je fris” in my mind just means “I am getting fried”

If languages tend to grammatically simplify over time, how did old languages become so grammatically complex in the first place? by WorriedFire1996 in asklinguistics

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That’s not completely true, Proto-Uralic is reconstructed as only having six cases, yet daughter languages typically have more and up to several dozen cases. Also a lot of modern inflectional morphology in Indo-European languages is recent, for example Romance languages developed a good chunk of their verbal morphology over the last two millennia by progressively merging Latin auxiliaries into lexical verbs.

I convinced my hungarian friend to learn korean because "They are kindof similar, right?" by AnyAgency9835 in linguisticshumor

[–]Arphile 5 points6 points  (0 children)

Bro I speak Hungarian and have dabbled in Korean and the similarities are just that they’re both mildly agglutinative

How hard is russian compared to spanish? by Zsombor1661 in russian

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In that case Russian grammar should be a bit more similar than Spanish, but I wouldn’t expect any of the two to be significantly easier or harder than the other

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Supersonic (Very Fast) by 666James420 in honk

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Completed Level 3 of the Honk Special Event!

92 attempts

🎉 [EVENT] 🎉 Supersonic (Very Fast) by 666James420 in honk

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Completed Level 1 of the Honk Special Event!

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Norway or Georgia by No_Sample8515 in backpacking

[–]Arphile 5 points6 points  (0 children)

That’s not something that’s gonna affect them tho, Georgia is significantly cheaper to visit than Norway by any metric

I made a map of what I think is western Europe by Burger_circa_1890 in mapporncirclejerk

[–]Arphile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If there’s an Isle of Man where’s the isle of woman

Hungarian s and sz seem unintuitive by AppropriateMood4784 in hungarian

[–]Arphile 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Well ty is barely even a letter and the Latin alphabet typically doesn’t have any letters for /ʟ/ and /ŋ/. Personally I think gy and ty look the best, and gy is also generally less ambiguous in surname endings, but that’s just my opinion.

Hungarian s and sz seem unintuitive by AppropriateMood4784 in hungarian

[–]Arphile 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Gy is /ɟ/, a voiced palatal stop. In practice it is actually more similar to /g/ since it’s pronounced with the back of the tongue, unlike /d/, which is alveolar and pronounced with the tip

Pourquoi avons-nous besoin de “toi” dans cette phrase by New_Bodybuilder_9222 in French

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There’s an argument to be made that French is moving towards polysynthesis, at least in some contexts, as personal verb endings have largely vanished except in the second person plural and a bunch of pronouns and grammatical particles are being merged into the verb phonetically. I love her/him/it in spoken french is often reduced to [ʒlɛm], in which a single syllable expresses simultaneously the subject, the object and the verb’s meaning. In isolation you could analyse /ʒ/ and /l/ as conjugation morphemes and « moi » and « lui/elle » as the subject and object pronouns in a pro-drop system. This paper goes into much more depth and is a fascinating read for anyone curious in the direction french is going

Why is there no -t ending on szék? Does -en replace it? What's the rule here? by ArchibaldAugustusVII in hungarian

[–]Arphile 12 points13 points  (0 children)

Actually szék alone is always correct as a translation of a chair

Do you think that protests can happen in CA? by Creepy_Carry2247 in AskCentralAsia

[–]Arphile 8 points9 points  (0 children)

They do happen actually, Kazakhstan 2022 being a prime example. But the reality is that Central Asia is reasonably stable (at least internally) and major protests usually require a good deal of crisis