selenography

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by selenography 1y ago
> It's again, unofficial and unwritten and unstudied American English. Hm? Where'd you get that impression? It's certainly unofficial -- English has no official governing body, so essentially _all_ English is unofficial. H
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by selenography 2y ago
Sure, if by "now" you mean "at least since Geoffrey Chaucer's time": > And thys vyce cometh of false hope that he thynketh he thall lyue longe, but that hope fayleth ful ofte. [1] https://www.google.
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by selenography 2y ago
I see this endlessly repeated across the Internet, but it doesn't work. -n't is not a general-purpose clitic the way -'d and -'ve are; it can't attach to arbitrary words. ("Well, Mary'd _said_ she wa
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by selenography 2y ago
> set us all straight. Se fareblus oni, jam farintus oni. (It definitely won't happen on an echo-change day like today, either. ;)) Contra my comrade's comment, Esperanto orthography is firmly European, and so retains European-
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by selenography 2y ago
Another classic counterexample: "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand, and God." "This book is dedicated to my parents, Ayn Rand and God."
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by selenography 2y ago
The classic, if crude, counterexample: "I helped my uncle Jack off a horse." (The uncapitalized version doesn't just have different semantics; it has a completely different parse-tree!)
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by selenography 2y ago
"epicaricacy" fails the simplest test for word-ness: it's never [0] used with the expectation of being understood without explanation. (Nor ever has been, according to Wiktionary.) It seems to have been one of the earliest Ni
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by selenography 2y ago
Isn't that just 442Hz, except about 34.3μs early?