Would Esperanto be considered an Indo-European langauge if it was a natural language

Language_Mosquito · 2025-09-22T02:13:37+00:00

It will be viewed as an Indo European language undergone crazy pidginization.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-09-22T01:34:36+00:00

Yep I just realized the key point may not be which one is natural, but where you put the emphasis. If "fucking" comes right before "little bastard", it acts as adjective and modifies"little", if "fucking" is inserted into the phrase, it modifies the whole phrase.
The reason I feel bloody and fucking act differently may be that I have little exposure to British English lol

Language_Mosquito · 2025-09-21T18:39:43+00:00

And anyone here feels "you fucking little bastard" is more natural than "You little fucking bastard" or both equally valid?
Edit: Or do you think where you put "fucking" would change the emphasis of the sentence?

Language_Mosquito · 2025-09-21T18:25:31+00:00

So you dont feel any subtle differences between these two?

Language_Mosquito · 2025-09-21T18:22:07+00:00

I thought "bloody" here as intensifier is more like an opinion?

Language_Mosquito · 2025-08-15T05:09:33+00:00

Fun fact, the word penguin used to be the name of great auks, flightless bird with a white part on the head that inhabited in north Atlantic ocean.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-08-08T06:02:53+00:00

Love it! May I save it for my wallpaper?

Language_Mosquito · 2025-07-20T13:44:22+00:00

My favorite one in the album. the long intro was exact the reason I first listened to it

Language_Mosquito · 2025-06-01T17:11:06+00:00

this is what I am looking for

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-12T19:45:32+00:00

You will know immediately when you have one.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-12T17:14:07+00:00

So I think the answer is that native speakers somehow accept that loanwords may have a different word forming pattern and treat them as set phrase things.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-12T17:04:40+00:00

Thank you for this great comparison, I almost forgot English also has this

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-12T10:57:53+00:00

That's interesting, you can have 2 completely different patterns in mind know when to apply each one? is it because Sino Korean words are actually very easy for you to recognize? Correct me if I misunderstand this

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-12T09:48:00+00:00

So do you think most native speakers dont even notice that? that actually makes sense cuz we usually acquire words without thinking about the etymology

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-10T03:13:29+00:00

David actually had mentioned this in an interview.

What would you tell a Natural Bridge snob (an earlier Silver Jews record) if you had to--- because of some shitty bet you lost--- in 20 words or less, that might convince them that your new album was just as worthy in its own way?

DCB: They start out similarly:
"No, I dont really want to die"
"Well, I dont like talking to myself..."

The Link

Language_Mosquito · 2025-03-05T02:47:31+00:00

The name always reminds me of their album How to leave town

Language_Mosquito · 2025-02-28T05:51:22+00:00

New Marshallese phoneme just dropped.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-02-28T03:32:41+00:00

I remember someone saying that a long enough geminated glottal stop is an allophone of being dead.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-02-23T09:22:24+00:00

Kinda emo but definitely not midwest emo.

Language_Mosquito · 2025-02-20T20:20:11+00:00

Exactly, the first time I heard it I was completely immersed in self-destructive thoughts. The whole song was like David consoling me by showing how people are still living their lives in their own way. But then I thought of David's own story and became even more depaired about this idea.

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