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I read somewhere that Chinese prefers short sentences while English prefers longer ones. I don’t have great examples of this, yet. This is particularly problematic in legal texts where an English …
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Linguists consider sign languages to be natural languages. Surely they had been invented/constructed at some point in time by someone. So why are they not categorized as constructed, but as natural …
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How to translate to Black Speech phrase “Eye of the Sauron is always watching”? or more simply: “Sauron is always watching”, or even more simply “Sauron is watching”. and …
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For readers who aren’t familiar with the Theory of Relativity, here is a sketch of how the Special Theory of Relativity structures space and time: There is a point “here and now” where the observer …
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In his Cthulhu Mythos, H. P. Lovecraft includes several snippets of the R’lyehian language, including the “Cthulhu chant”: Ph’nglui mglw’nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah’nagl fhtagn! We have a vocabulary …
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At the moment I have my fictional language written down in a notebook, but as the vocabulary increases its becoming harder and harder to find words. I am adding new words all the time, so writing …
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Most auxiliary languages I know of, especially Esperanto, are primarily a posteriori—that is, their vocabulary or grammar are derived from other existing languages, and most are fairly Eurocentric. …
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The Chinese character system is one that is universal to many Chinese dialects. Two people can pronounce the same character in two different ways, but when writing to each other it is intelligible. …
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