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Is there anything you want to know about language? Anything at all? You're in luck!

Now that I'm about to be an official Ph.D. candidate and stuff, I feel more confident to talk about language to a broader public and, as I mentioned before, I want to make a podcast about language (I think I'm going to call it langue-in-cheek). Naturally, it'd make more sense to talk about things people actually want to know... and this is why I decided to turn to you, oh Cor!

So, what do you want to know about language? The more outrageous your question - the better!

how can i get use it to get sex

How does a language impact person's character?

How does research of artificial intelligence relating to music function to provide a foundation for computers to one day be able to understand human language?





EDIT: Clarity.

Is language innate, or learned?

How can I, to paraphrase my mother, 'Watch my language'?

How is the language affected by a throat punch?

Re: Is there anything you want to know about language? Anything at all? You're in luck!

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Originally posted by Lira Now that I'm about to be an official Ph.D. candidate and stuff, I feel more confident to talk about language to a broader public and, as I mentioned before, I want to make a podcast about language (I think I'm going to call it langue-in-cheek). Naturally, it'd make more sense to talk about things people actually want to know... and this is why I decided to turn to you, oh Cor! So, what do you want to know about language? The more outrageous your question - the better!

Not that i think that you cant pull it of, but in that nieche youre competing with...well this.

Search for tranceaddict in 'Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology)
Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology) '

http://www.amazon.com/phrase/tranceaddict

Is it true the first bibles were written in Greek rather than Latin or Hebrew?

Admit it, PNW English is the most neutral North American English!

What is an ideal method for simultaneously learning multiple languages in the same group?

Thanks, everyone, I'll see what I can do. And, Watts, you want to learn, like more than one language in the same family? (e.g. Italian & French at the same time?)

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Originally posted by Swamper Search for tranceaddict in 'Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology) Morphosyntactic Change: Functional and Formal Perspectives (Oxford Surveys in Syntax and Morphology) ' http://www.amazon.com/phrase/tranceaddict

lolwut! It's funny because I've got this book and the words "trance" and "addict" are nowhere to be found

And, Stu, you'd be delighted to know that I'm going to talk about birds in order to answer your question.

And, no, Nou it isn't, and I'm actually going to take the trouble to give you all the reasons why it isn't

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Originally posted by Lira And, Stu, you'd be delighted to know that I'm going to talk about birds in order to answer your question.

Nice I'll be very interested to know your stance on the topic, since it's a rather heated one for both linguists and psychologists.

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Originally posted by Sushipunk since it's a rather heated one for both linguists and psychologists.

So if we put both of them in a pit with a knife each to fight to the death, who will win?

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Originally posted by Lilith So if we put both of them in a pit with a knife each to fight to the death, who will win?

One will ponder the need for aggression, and what the knife symbolises in the conflict - the other will ponder the various aspects of the word "knife" used throughout human history.

Not exactly prime time television.

Fill in the pit with them still in it, heated debate over. Humanity spends time doing something useful.

i'd like to learn some Spanish as i did it in school but that was a long time ago and have never used it since.

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Originally posted by Lilith Fill in the pit with them still in it, heated debate over. Humanity spends time doing something useful.

That's your answer for everything!

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Originally posted by Sushipunk That's your answer for everything!

No it isn't, its just a logical progression on the socio-economic index on rather splendorous chart of "who's going to stab someone as the preferred problem solver in a debate".

Economic Status___________________Relative Stabbage Factor

1. Crackheads______________________Stabbing as a way of life
2. Poor Bastards____________________Stabbing is a preferred problem solver
3. Hipster Intellectuals_______________Eye stabbing fashion
4. People with Jobs__________________Not very stabby unless its an industrial accident
5. Parents of a hipster at uni__________Stab themselves trying to die
6. Rich Bastards____________________Get Poor bastards to stab other people for fun and profit

Hipster Intellectuals are only one step below those that do it frequently, all it takes is a heated reason, belly full of double chocolate latte with skim milk and before you know it- BAM! iPod down the throat and strangling someone with white ear bud thingies.

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Originally posted by jonSun Is it true the first bibles were written in Greek rather than Latin or Hebrew?

thats the only one I know...yes. They were written by smart folks in greek many decades (or centuries) after the purported events.

I have a question lira...What's up with spanish? I noticed when I tried learning some a few years ago that the sentences are all ass backwards..so that you don't understand what is being said until the sentence is complete. For example, they don't use conjuctions like "didn't or wouldn't" as we do in English..instead you say a sentence in positive terms and then add a "no" at the end of it to signify you did not do something.

english example "We didn't go to the mall on saturday"

spanish: "We went to the mall on saturday, no."

Also, the subject of many statements (like a place)..rather than being in the beginning or middle so you can comprehend what is being discussed is instead used as the final word in a sentence.

WTF is up with that?

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Originally posted by Capitalizt

im a native spanish speaker...and i never end a sentence with ".....,no"?

whats wrong with
"no fuimos all mall el sabado"

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Originally posted by WhooCares im a native spanish speaker...and i never end a sentence with ".....,no"? whats wrong with "no fuimos all mall el sabado"

"no fuimos all mall el sabado"

This literally seems to translate to "No, we were at the mall on saturday"

so the "no" is at the beginning instead of the end..but I think my question stands. Do you have any way of saying "We weren't there" or "We didn't do it".. Or are you instead forced to say the entire sentence in positive terms while simply adding a no at the beginning or end to reverse the meaning?

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Originally posted by Capitalizt "no fuimos all mall el sabado" This literally seems to translate to "No, we were at the mall on saturday" so the "no" is at the beginning instead of the end..but I think my question stands. Do you have any way of saying "We weren't there" or "We didn't do it".. Or are you instead forced to say the entire sentence in positive terms while simply adding a no at the beginning or end to reverse the meaning?

haha its to make you be patient:

it was the bizarre thing about japanese as well: You make a statement, then affirm or deny it at the end... In Jap its to do with grammar and sentence structure, not sure about spanish, but you end your sentence with a positive or a negative phrase

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