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What sort of question is that‽ That table was painful to write. I needed to make 88 separate suffixes! I assume you mean the coming up with the content of the table (the actual suffix forms) rather than just making the table for the post? Or maybe it's both. I feel your pain. I had a similar number...

That feeling you get when you discuss a new position with your managers, and they discuss it with their managers, only to be told that the only option is to stay in your current position or return to the same position you had when you began with the company 10 years prior.

Vardelm climbs up the stairs (part way). Vardelm climbs upwards along the stairs. Having a bit of a hard time parsing the semantic difference between these to. Does it explicitly mean part way when you don't use the prolative particle? It's a VERY small difference semantically; probably even smalle...

In addition to Devani's irrealis stem form, I've been rethinking directionals, adverbs, & prepositions in Dwarven. Dwarven: Rethinking Adverbs, etc. I currently have the following word orders: noun - adjective y ðalgöch njasho the old miner verb - adverb y ðalgöch chæm-aið kjælship The miner run...

The problem is with improving my skills. Me thinks you might have a strange definition of "improving your skills". It's just that, apparently, with most of the things that I think I am reasonably good at, like learning about history or handling computers, I've been fairly good at them as ...

This chart was intended for referring to art skills, but I think it's applicable to everything in life: Yes! In one of my first drum lessons, my instructor was demonstrating something, suddenly stopped, and said "The better I get, the more I realize how much I suck." Later in life I reali...

I am specifically interested in the verb forms of adjectives denoting properties of objects. (hot, long, blue, hard...) Some languages just work this way, and in many or most cases they work the same as regular "action" verbs. What meaning could be assigned to the transitive form of such ...

Does that help? Yep! Interesting that you have tripartite, accusative, ergative, and direct alignment depending on relative animacy. Nifty! For now I'll say this: Sentient: human individuals, divine/profane beings Animate: some words for children, body parts, animals, some weather Animate uncountab...

Making a table so I can visually see the marking hierarchy. Hope it doesn't step on your toes! Patient Sentient Animate Inanimate Sentient sentient A unflagged sentient P ??? sentient A unflagged animate P flagged sentient A unflagged inanimate P unflagged Agent Animate animate A unflagged sentient ...

bradrn wrote: ↑Thu Jan 20, 2022 4:39 pm English has three: simple vs progressive, unmarked vs perfect and unmarked vs progressive can all vary orthogonally (at least for me), and all have traditionally been called ‘aspect’.

How are "simple vs progressive" and "unmarked vs progressive" different?

Initial CV reduplication sounds more interesting, but I'm not sure if any natlang puts initial reduplicated syllable at the end of the stem... I find final CV reduplication more realistic. That's what I would have thought, too! Apparently, Chukchi encodes the absolutive singular using opposite-edge...

I agree I find Wikipedia to be messy and unreliable, sometimes terribly inconsistent (look at the Japanese grammar articles to cry), although it may not seem so until you start poking around the references, which can be very noticeably so much better. Thank you for agreeing with me! Damn you for ag...

doctor shark wrote: ↑Wed Jan 19, 2022 12:53 pm More interesting to me is how different my reactions are/were to my brother, despite us being identical twins. (Yay for inadvertent twin studies.)

I look forward to reading the paper on this.

So, if someone goes paragliding in this situation right now, has an accident, and need intensive care in order not to die, should they also not be operated because they took that risk? What about people falling down ladders? What about people crossing a street and getting hit by a car (they should ...

That's quite a horrifying suggestion. If someone is in need of hospitalization for covid, then they are at pretty high risk of dying without medical care. "If you aren't vaccinated, then you should just die" is... rather extreme. Yes, I know. Allowing the hospital system to collapse is ra...

Here it's gotten so bad that about 5% of the population got Covid last week and the hospital needs to convert operating blocks into intensive care units, but the préfet is still not putting in stricter measures. How much of that is unvaxxed? I'm of the mind that hospitals should start to deny care ...

Got booster stab yesterday, and right now my left arm is extremely sore, but I'm not feeling anything like I felt with the second dose back in August. (Feels more like dose #1 did, overall...) It's interesting how different people have different reacions (although yeah, there's different vaccines)....

em3ry wrote: ↑Tue Jan 18, 2022 10:33 pm number 4 is simply "I have been fixing". I just extended that pattern and regularized it.

Why?

I started with the grammatical sentences and then regularized them. I think that's not useful; it just confuses the situation, unfortunately. See the edit I made to the op. Changing "am" to "was" or "will-be" moves the entire thing into the past or future respectively....

Like KathTheDragon, I have some trouble with this because some sentences aren't grammatical. All of them that use "having" are ungrammatical. With that said, it looks like you are maybe trying to do a past, present, & future that is relative to "now" (the time the speaker say...