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Henry_Wong

@wong417

香港人 Hoeng1 Gong2 jan4 // Conlanger // 渠/其 // East Asian linguist with a penchant to wander afield

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Joel Chan@kjoules3h
Spirit Halloween has a few costume ideas if you haven't figured out what to wear in Lan Kwai Fong this weekend
Spirit Halloween costume of Ice, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

ALT Spirit Halloween costume of Ice, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

Spirit Halloween costume of Grass, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

ALT Spirit Halloween costume of Grass, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

Spirit Halloween costume of Coke, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

ALT Spirit Halloween costume of Coke, from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

Spirit Halloween costume of Siu Yau ("Little Oil"), from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

ALT Spirit Halloween costume of Siu Yau ("Little Oil"), from the AI-generated girl group Obsession

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There is also Haspelmath 1993 on this: academia.edu/3452966/More_on…
More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations

More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations

More on the typology of inchoative/causative verb alternations

academia.edu
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Replying to @Blablablab1ub @TSHamiltonAstro
Descendants of the ablative is actually found in some Romance language! Tho it has usually been turnt into a new gender (usually called “neuter”, not to be confused with the Latin neuter) See for example Asturian (masculine -u < -um vs “neuter” -o < -ō) or in Neapolitan
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A strong aversion to morphologically deriving causatives appears to be a notable Standard Average European sprachbund feature, at least as per Haspelmath 2001
C. Widmann (The Pluriglot) (@vuorille) profile pictureC. Widmann (The Pluriglot)@vuorilleOct 29
Replying to @kingsepp
Is this still productive in any Germanic language? It is in Finnish as far as I know, but that's a different language family.
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Generally causative alternations in SAE favours *anti*causative derivation, thus French asseoir ~ s’asseoir “seat/sit”, German längen ~ sich längen “lengthen (tr)/lengthen (itr)” Polish zmieniać ~ zmieniać się “change (tr)/change (itr)” Amongst some examples
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Alternatively you also get lability which is the preferred strategy of English: break, shatter, grow, lengthen, change…
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哈哈，當年代表🇭🇰去的時候經歷過 語言學奧林匹克基本上離不開找規律。這題有兩班，一個是滿文滿語對譯，另一個是滿語英語對譯
蕭貪少女塔娜 (@tanaduin) profile picture蕭貪少女塔娜@tanaduinOct 29
有沒有懂語言學的推友？我看到2022年國際語言學奧林匹亞的團體賽題目全部是滿文，我非常好奇語言學的邏輯如何運作，在滿文基礎0的情況下，如何作答？ 截圖幾張給大家看，有興趣的人可以私我要完整題目卷，我也是在網路查到的。
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至少我們香港出賽前是有訓練的，主題是操題和學typology（語言類型學），把全世界常見的分歧點（不同語序，accusativity vs ergativity，不同常見進制）都認識翻來，從而真比賽的時候有丁點頭緒可以找什麼類型的規律
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相比個人賽，團隊賽是跟難的。但這題主體在絕對困難上來講還好的（24年那個給了我們計算機才心煩）
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Nissehatt@hekwoysOct 28
Replying to @germanicgems @theo_nash
Those are just from Celtic in general. French has lots of Gaulish loans so from Gaulish specifically you have: car, carpenter, carry, change, bulge, budget, beak, bran, beret, garter, cream, javelin, palfrey, vassal, valet, bourbon
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也是恭喜姆巴佩完成人生三件事中的第二件了。
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The stock English phrase in Hong Kong is “I go to school by bus”
wɐɪf ɫʌvɚːː 🔆🟢🐑⏹️ (@AstroRose20) profile picturewɐɪf ɫʌvɚːː 🔆🟢🐑⏹️@AstroRose20Oct 25
Many people make jokes about having poor/basic knowledge of another language using certain stock phrases. English speakers say in Spanish, “¿dónde está la biblioteca?” Portuguese speakers say in English, “the book is on the table.” Do you know any other phrases like this?
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Gopalakrishnan R@cobbalttOct 24
This handle will now become a cold weather hate handle. No linguistics, only hate on single degree weather
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Vefa T.@32nd_guessingOct 23
67 in Tibetan looks like the hand motion kinda ༦༧
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One of my favorite cross cultural weirdness facts is that there's a whole genre of Jewish themed self help books in China, suspiciously similar to western books that teach you the secrets of eastern wisdom, tiger parenting, etc. (with about as much connection to reality).
David Porter (@huwaliyasuntob) profile pictureDavid Porter@huwaliyasuntobOct 22
One of my more amusing China stories: I was with some friends at a pork kebab (i.e. 猪肉串) restaurant in Jinan in 2015. A couple very drunk Chinese guys came over and started talking to us, offering shots of baijiu
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Genuinely infuriating this god forsaken algorithm is pushing me posts from 簡中. Not just that but the chuddiest 簡中 bullshit. At least threads still gives me some actually good 中 stuff
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Why is that even surprising lol
Lulu (@muixyui) profile pictureLulu@muixyuiOct 22
I wasn’t aware Chinese Zionists existed, this everything app
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