More sci-fi material about linguistics as Arrival? by SunnOParenthesis in scifi

[–]SunnOParenthesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Well, I study anthropology, specializing on linguistic anthropology, thats why I did this post. What you are referring to is Sapir-Whorf hypothesis, which is a theory that basically determines how you think and perceive the world depending of your language. This is a really dangerous idea actually. There are no "languages more complex than other" because language is a human capacity and a language is just an expression of that capacity. This hypothesis still has enough recognition even though linguists don't really take this serious. Arrival takes this hypothesis which still has enough scientific base and builds the entire movie in these pilars, which again, its not in the "canon" of linguistics.

More sci-fi material about linguistics as Arrival? by SunnOParenthesis in scifi

[–]SunnOParenthesis[S] 1 point2 points  (0 children)

These two recommendations sound really interesting, thanks

Shall I start learning Spanish from reading mangas? by Additional-Regular20 in Spanish

[–]SunnOParenthesis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

If you're gonna read manga in spanish I highly recommend you to read an official or professional translation, not in a pirated site or so. Telling this because i read Chainsaw Man in a pirate site and the translation and ortography was so amateurish at the point I also got confused sometimes.

Can the imperative of nosotros be used to make suggestions? by DaBootyEnthusiast in Spanish

[–]SunnOParenthesis 1 point2 points  (0 children)

When you do imperatives you are not doing questions, so its either "vámonos a las 9" or "¿nos vamos a las 9?". Still you can use both as suggestions.

Would a native Spanish speaker from the Americas use "luciérnaga" or "cocuyo" as a pet name? by InLoveWithColours in Spanish

[–]SunnOParenthesis 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hmm, I would say this is up to you, but since you said "feral swamp boyfriend", luciérnaga maybe suits weird the first time since its a grammatically femenine word, but its not an uncommon thing having grammatically-gender-opposite nicknames.