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Discussion Topic  RE: My daughter's boyfriend... (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
1. 'Partner' strikes me as the established term now. It wasn't just ten years ago: I didn't know how......
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Discussion Topic  RE: What is (or is not) a "word"? (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
That's a very, very sensible essay and I agree wholeheartedly with how it makes all those distinctio......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Modern coinages (in Potpourri) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or Groučo and Čico, and if this Unicode doesn't show up I'll look silly. Tashkent is known......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Not connected, not in Japanese anyway. Vowels can be long or short: a short vowel has one mora, a lo......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
A tone language or tonal language uses pitch as an intrinsic part of the meaning. A classic example ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Tonality (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I don't think it would make any difference in Japanese: in English speech we don't stress 'happy bir......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Encomium (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I've never been able to work out what the verb for that should be: encomize? encomiaze? Why don't we......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Caryatid, telemon and atlas (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Fascinating snippet: sexual ornament affecting architecture. If you'd been asked beforehand for an e......
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Discussion Topic  RE: English as she is writ by UK stylists of note (in The Written Word) by aput
Well if we're going to be pedantic, there is no such thing as the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
One of the main sources for modern North American dialects and accents is the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, well, rather an odd question: where does my knowledge of accents come from? Study, reading, the ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
On clicks: don't know to alphabetization, but the sound files for Peter Ladefoged's course on phonet......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Hm, origin of words perhaps, but it would be nice to know the histories of the signs -- , and : and ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
I always thought the ? was derived from a Q for query/question (or Latin ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The difference between ......
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Discussion Topic  RE: Troglodyte (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Pronunciations and Mispronunciations (in The Vocabulary Forum) by aput
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Discussion Topic  RE: Diacritical Marks (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
The clicks in Bushman languages (there's something like 20 or 30 languages in the Kalahari area that......
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Discussion Topic  RE: binomial (in Questions & Answers about Words) by aput
Or what the dictionary says is an insufficient guide to usage. This is a word that has two common co......
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