linguaphiles

Is there a name for the number of degrees of contrast in coordinating conjunction a language has? Eg, English has "and" and "but", but some Slavic languages have an intermediate, mild-contrast one.

pauamma

Using the illative where ("Saan tumae ang pusa?") in "where did the cat poop?", effectively asking where the poop went, not where the cat was.

pauamma

Is there a name for the process by which a loanword (or calque) sheds some of its source language meanings? Like "atom" not also meaning "individual" in languages that borrowed it from Greek, or "café" in English only meaning the establishment serving food and drinks and not also coffee as it does in French?

Same question for words borrowed with a meaning absent from the source language, like "femme" referring to gender expression in English but gender in French?

pauamma

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Which do you think are native English speakers most likely to pronounce /bʁaj/?

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brrigh
2 (50.0%)

brry
0 (0.0%)

braai
2 (50.0%)

something else (comment)
0 (0.0%)

Ticky?

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Ticky!
3 (75.0%)

Ticcy!
1 (25.0%)

Rikki-Tikki-Tavi!
2 (50.0%)

pauamma

I ordered a Lingthusiasm IPA mug and got an update email a few hours ago telling me it was shipped. Soon, when I ask myself "how does gazpacho sound tonight?" as I do nightly, I'll have a handy reference to help me answer.

pauamma

So English has gerunds, like "speaking" in "the adult speaking" or "driving" in "the man driving". It also has something like "spoken to" in "the child spoken to" and "hit" in "the pedestrian hit" (implied: "by the car", so not an active verb here). Is there a name for the latter feature of English grammar?

pauamma

Is there a linguistic term for sentences or phrases that intensify certainty at the end of a statement? Like "You don't want to do that. Trust me." or "That's unacceptable. Period." ("Statement-final certainty intensifier" sounded like the most likely candidate to me, but a search for it didn't return anything useful.)

pauamma

There are (that I'm aware of) two languages or major language dialects in which football isn't called "football" or a phonetic rendering.

One is el_GR, which uses the calque ποδοσφέρί.

The other is en_US, which uses "soccer", but https://www.etymonline.com/word/soccer#etymonline_v_23809 hints this meaning originated in the UK. I'm not sure (if that's right) when and how it was displaced by "football" everywhere but the US (and maybe Canada).

orchidfire

What is the word for the color "orange" in the languages that you know? And for the fruit "orange"?

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Names for degrees of contrast?

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[ˈsʌdə̆nɫiˑ ɫu̟ːt]

Like an English gerund, only passive or objective?

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