ashleney

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by ashleney 2y ago
This kind of thinking very much reminds me of those parents who view the children they chose to have as nefarious evil leeches.
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by ashleney 3y ago
pretty sure the point is that it's supposed to be in one line
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by ashleney 3y ago
Seems very fun but the instructions are really unclear. There's no indication of the class having to be defined in the scope (though it makes sense). The password isn't really clear on being in the filesystem (at first I assumed i
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by ashleney 3y ago
Quickly glossing over index diachronica, there's no common sound change of p<->d, but p<-b->m with the medial b has instances. (sorry for the syntax, no idea how to express this)
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by ashleney 3y ago
Worth noting they evolved from papa and titi.
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by ashleney 3y ago
I always get excited when there's a linguistics post on hackernews only to get disappointed by yet another analysis of the vowels of English dialects.
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by ashleney 3y ago
It is very hard to predict how fast a language will evolve even for linguists. I'd like to recommend a video https://youtu.be/evJ_E7k1pvY
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by ashleney 3y ago
Languages tend to lose grammatical features (english gender) but also gain them (english habitual tense). A common way you can see languages get complex is due to sound changes making grammar irregular (english past participles).
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by ashleney 3y ago
Languages that lose cases will replace them with adpositions which can then again develop into cases. I unfortunately can't think of any PIE languages but Hungarian has 18 cases while proto-uralic only had 6. PIE languages are currentl
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by ashleney 3y ago
What is your proposed theory? It is understandable to be sceptical considering the scandal that was proto-altaic, however there is evidence in form of successful reconstructions of PIE languages.
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by ashleney 3y ago
Love the human verification with figlet.