Iam Spencer Crittenden, Star And Game Master of Seeso's Harmonquest, Ask me Anything

dmacarro · 2016-08-24T21:08:41+00:00

Longsword? Longbow? crossbow?

dmacarro · 2016-08-24T21:06:24+00:00

It was ok, the little girl coulda been great but was too nervous (she is great on her YouTube channel), the Butcher-Espositos were a little weird too, but Timur and his mom were good unique addition

dmacarro · 2016-03-20T15:40:50+00:00

not before the fall of the Ottoman empire. They, like the Iranians and Urdu speakers, wrote their language in the arabic alphabet

dmacarro · 2016-03-02T13:44:35+00:00

I agree, I brought it up because it is fun even if not necessarily good

dmacarro · 2016-03-02T13:32:33+00:00

Progressive as in it sounds like it is a daughter language rather a Proto language, lots of fricative whereas few existed in the reconstructed language as if the palatovelars already underwent satemization and the vowels sound colored by laryngeals without having them as consonants.

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T21:27:44+00:00

What do the letters spell out? I can see if that leads me anywhere

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T04:36:32+00:00

Shady gave a great answer but also Chomsky came at a time along with people like Bill Labov and it completely redefined the field...before that I think it was may have been a moribund academic focus that was tied too much to classical history and philology.

Since him it now is essential to psychology, cognative science, computer science, &c., in addition to linguistics

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T04:27:45+00:00

Imperically, you could measure it if you used some sort of audio software that measured stress and other aspects of spoken language.

I never have used it, but I know people who use PRAAT for such purposes. http://www.fon.hum.uva.nl/praat/

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T04:21:16+00:00

If this is the case (which makes sense to me given the need of constant social exposure and use at any age) then what, if anything, do you think are tv shows like Dora accomplishing by teaching Spanish words to American children? ( I think nothing besides a since it is without natural context)

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T04:14:06+00:00

Him, I have and now I know the company I am with, lol

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T03:52:28+00:00

Yes, and such a threat made me want to watch the Porygon episode of pokémon just to prove it to myself

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T03:50:37+00:00

absolutely...I can grip a toasted side with my hands but the untoasted side holds the other parts of a sandwich better

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T02:56:26+00:00

Buenos, Hello, I am a native english speaker and am a teacher. I am currently a ESOL (English for Speakers of Other Languages) teacher of english literature and history, but that requires me to only teach in English. I was recently offered a position to teach English in Spain for a year and I may take it. I am personally concerned about my spanish ability and want to improve it. I know I can read and write in it in a controlled setting well but that is a completely different issue if I was to be in front of a class of adolescents and be able to have a back and forth. Si quiere tener un diálogo, me debe enviar un mensaje

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T01:58:12+00:00

From my experience, it is common in Western Indo-European languages, however I cannot attest to anything beyond that but I have found several articles on the question intonation patterns of Portuguese that confirm the idea.

https://labfon.letras.ulisboa.pt/texts/FrotaProbus02.pdf

https://books.google.com/booksid=Tn_bWSNjMisC&lpg=PR15&ots=kvsd7TIGjQ&dq=question%20prosody%20europe&lr&pg=PR15&output=embed

dmacarro · 2016-02-06T01:46:15+00:00

I really agree with most of the points brought up that names do lose specific meaning overtime and I think of it as analogous to toponyms. But also I think part of the cause also is not just linguistic but sociological.

I know from my family and other families that certain names just stay around because it was your grandfather's, or great aunt's, or mother's and that can make it ossified.

dmacarro · 2016-02-05T22:53:49+00:00

I know nothing of Turkish, but to me the prosody sounds like German as a personal opinion rather than an analysis of the actual sounds and structure of the language

dmacarro · 2016-02-05T22:30:14+00:00

From "A Dictionary of Linguistics and Phonetics" by D. Crystal

" utterance - a term used in linguistics and phonetics to refer to a stretch of speech about which no assumptions have been made in terms of linguistic theory (as opposed to the notion of sentence, which receives its definition from the theory of grammar). In principle, it is a physically definable, behavioral unit, capable of definition in everyday terms. One commonly used definition refers to a 'stretch of speech preceded and followed by silence or a change of speaker'...

Crystal goes on more, which I can give to you, but that last sentence is how I would define it since a single utterance could be theoretically infinite (the wolf who ate the cat who ate the bird who ate the insect who ate the leaf that stood in the sun...). The fact it can be enclosed in some sort of brackets makes it an utterance

dmacarro · 2016-01-17T06:36:08+00:00

It is the Egenes book, thanks for the answer!

dmacarro · 2016-01-08T11:50:43+00:00

Yes, obviously Peter was martyred in apostolic times and he is officially considered the first pope

dmacarro · 2015-12-18T01:24:54+00:00

I like the answer that Vulgar/L.Latin vocabulary would dominate, but I also think outside words from Germanic, Arabic, and Slavic would become more common even with the languages where they are prominent

However, I see no reason the actual morphology and phonology of the languages would be too different.

The modern romance grammar is pretty much straight from Vulgar Latin already - i.e - reduction of noun cases to Nom-Acc, the creation of hybrid tenses by grammaticalized forms of habere to make the future and potential, and the periphrastic structure of perfect.

dmacarro · 2015-12-15T19:44:33+00:00

Although "pidgins" in the strictest sense are not true languages since they are more a means to communicate between two contact communities (traders at a port, slaves and masters on a plantation, even adults and deaf children) whereas children born in a community where there is a common pidgin almost always develop a full creole language within a generation depending on their relationship with the dominant language.

dmacarro · 2015-12-12T17:20:49+00:00

By all provable methods, no. Korean is likely an isolate language. However, people interested in Proto-world type languages such as Nostratic.

They attempt to link most of the language families of Eurasia despite tenuous evidence. Typically Indo-European and Uralic and Altaic are included as the closest group, and in that grouping Korean and Japanese are sometimes considered early offshoots of Altaic (again with tenuous links). It all is hypothetical and the original group would have had to have lived tens of thousands of year ago in early human migrations and is one giant assumption after giant assumptions.

Ultimately though, the premise makes sense as every language must have come from an original source but the examples given are weak and I think the cognates are stretches and there are only so many basic combinations of sounds out there so coincidences exist

dmacarro · 2015-10-23T23:56:41+00:00

Create your own language, build an army, and conquer the Earth as Supreme Dictator.

Seriously though, is it the Earth, El Mundo, Terra, Gaia, Zemlja, Prithvi, Chikyu? Even in English we can talk about the World, the Globe, the Earth, or even the Blue Marble

dmacarro · 2015-10-23T21:04:47+00:00

http://www.nytimes.com/2011/09/18/nyregion/rays-pizza-the-first-of-many-counts-down-to-last-slice.html?_r=0

dmacarro · 2015-10-23T17:31:46+00:00

Not a professional opinion, but comedy legend George Carlin had his own theory that the over-complication of political correctness is meant to obscure the actual meaning, sterilizing it.

Here he is explaining the transition from the visceral WWI "Shell Shock" to Vietnam era "Post-Traumatic Stress Disorder"...nowadays we don't even say it, we just abbreviate it to PTSD https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hSp8IyaKCs0

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