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11-18-2019, 12:21 AM | #62 |
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That feels like it should be pronounced "Low-burrow". Am I anywhere near correct?
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11-18-2019, 04:50 AM | #63 |
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11-18-2019, 08:18 AM | #64 |
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That is how the locals pronounce it - I went to university there.
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11-18-2019, 09:00 AM | #65 |
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That's what I guessed, even though there's 81 possible permutations for how it might be said.
Now I'm wondering what Australians The Colonel has been talking to and where they're from if they try "loogabarooga." My guess it's tongue-in-cheek, like how we might say "champagne" as "cham-pag-nee".
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11-18-2019, 02:29 PM | #66 |
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The locals in Loughborough have quite a few silly pronunciations. "Loogabarooga" is one, as is "Lowbrow."
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And we decline some words for gender (sometimes more than just male/female, too), most for number (indefinite by adding s, sometimes root substitution), some for age (root substitution and/or unique adjectives). Horses have 4 declensions in place, one being the plural-by-s. Males by age: foal, yearling, colt, {stallion, gelding, rig or proud} Females by age: foal, yearling, filly, {mare, dam} by size: miniature horse, pony, (by gender and age for normal sized) Most don't know all the terms (I had to look several of those up), but horsefolk generally know them and use them. Many people are unaware that a pony is not a young horse, but a breed-descriptor noted for specific small stature breeds. Oh, and rig and proud refer to males who are "unmasculine"... rigs can be undescended testes, or can be incompletely castrated; prouds can be incompletely castrated or intentionally only given a vasectomy. THe largest perpetrator of rigging/proud-cutting horses is the US DoF&W.... rigs still act like stallions, and will gain a group of mares... but won't make any of them dams! Essentially, each proudcut gelding takes 4-5 mares out of the breeding pool, reducing the number of feral horses born. |
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A declension includes only "the same word" in different forms (in Greek usually with different endings, though the stem may also mutate, as with aner/andros) that represent different grammatical properties; it does not include different words that refer to different sets of entities. For example, it does not include sex, which is a biological property of (many) organisms. Ancient Greek does not have natural gender; genders are grammatical properties of words that need not be based on biological traits. (For example, anthropos/anthropou, "human being of either sex," is in the masculine gender, even though it can be used just as well to refer to a woman as to a man.) In point of fact, Greek does not have different forms of nouns for different genders; each noun has one and only one gender, marked ultimately by the form of the word for "the" that's used with it: ho aner, he gyne, to theron ("the beast," which is neuter). On the other hand, adjectives do have form for all three genders, and are declined for gender as well as case and number: ho aner kakos, "the man is bad," but he gyne kake, and to theron kakon. That's one of the main things that distinguishes adjectives from nouns. I won't say that your texts are wrong; their terminology may be standard in whatever field they're written for. But the terminology seems not to be consistent with the usage of the classical grammarians, or with the practice of lexicographers (who would class he, him, and his as different forms of the third person masculine singular pronoun, but she, her, and hers as different forms of the third person singular feminine pronoun, a different word); and I don't think it's used that way in the comparative linguistics I've read.
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11-19-2019, 04:58 AM | #70 |
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In addition to the physiological and linguistic tells, how about behavioural patterns pertaining to class or industry? I know that there's been discussion of cigarettes upthread, but what other obvious ones are there?
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