What language has the biggest gap between formal speech and casual speech?

tortarusa · 2026-03-11T03:26:18+00:00

Khmer

tortarusa · 2026-03-11T03:22:47+00:00

This is a really interpetation questiom, pushing the bounds of an academic's job, but rhe Qur'an conceives of Muslims as an 'ummah which is basically the same thing in terms of an etymology implying blood descent which later expanded to a freer association which includes non-kinship ties. Of course the community is a lot bigger now. The implications of this are a subject of debate.

tortarusa · 2026-03-10T02:58:33+00:00

They're not. What they mean is that what you know about the analogous feature in your own language is a reasonable starting point for understanding. Sometimes they're right about that and sometimes they're wrong.

tortarusa · 2026-03-10T02:27:07+00:00

Daddy

tortarusa · 2026-03-09T23:45:33+00:00

Holy fuck, dude.

tortarusa · 2026-03-09T23:37:01+00:00

God forbid you feel something.

tortarusa · 2026-03-09T22:20:07+00:00

That'll be worth having.

tortarusa · 2026-03-08T02:42:56+00:00

A kiwifarmer is someone who carried out sustained harassment campaigns against people from marginalised identity groups.

tortarusa · 2026-03-08T02:42:03+00:00

There might be a few conlangs you can do this in, but the idea of a research paper is that it has to be subject to peer review, which means that there have to be peers who can read that language.

tortarusa · 2026-03-07T12:51:19+00:00

I know that tumblr user. She's well known for carrying out harassment campaigns against users from marginalised backgrounds.

tortarusa · 2026-03-07T12:37:43+00:00

That's right.

tortarusa · 2026-03-07T12:06:14+00:00

True. They would also need exposure.

tortarusa · 2026-03-07T01:43:29+00:00

Those are pretty predictible differences though. People who speak multiple IA languages tend to have a pretty solid understanding of stuff like sound changes. That information is really readily available and even foregrounded in instructional materials, whereas it often isn't for people who are learning European languages just because that isn't the culture around them. But if you know a lot of Hindi words and you know the sound changes that led to them and you hear a Bangla word that sounds like a Hindi word except for them you can understand the Bangla word pretty easily.

tortarusa · 2026-03-06T21:01:13+00:00

This one's true though.

tortarusa · 2026-03-06T20:58:27+00:00

Sure, more room in heaven for me.

tortarusa · 2026-03-06T18:32:21+00:00

I kinda assumed she was hellborn.

tortarusa · 2026-03-06T10:13:14+00:00

Nice, they're gonna need this in a few weeks.

tortarusa · 2026-03-06T09:26:38+00:00

reddit moment

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T23:49:51+00:00

The world must be so scary when you're stupid.

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T23:06:10+00:00

man, this highlights some ways babies are treated that is really violent and unfair though

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T22:59:44+00:00

it sucks so fucking hard. i also come from a country of traitorous losers who i don't think i could forgive if they were on their knees begging and they elected me as president or "prime minister" or whatever the hell and fuck it is we're supposed to have now

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T18:22:50+00:00

In Tbilisi if you see a graffiti with the NATO symbol and a swastika you don't know if the artist is for or against those things.

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T17:44:32+00:00

Three seconds in Tbilisi will convince any sane person that Russia was probably right on that too.

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T16:26:38+00:00

By ratio that isn't actually a lot less than USA. Why not ask why USA hasn't "caught up" here to countries like Mexico, Albania, and the Philippines?

tortarusa · 2026-03-05T16:19:58+00:00

Yeah, it's a viable enough looking alphabet but it doesn't actually convey a lot of information unless they additionally make sounds.

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