04-27-2022, 08:44 AM | #91 |
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Re: Are DX and IQ overly undervalued?
Nope, just a typo too small to be caught with my poor vision. "Reeding" would probably have to be something to do with playing woodwind instruments and my knowledge of such things is too thin to make a good joke.
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04-28-2022, 09:18 AM | #92 |
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Re: Are DX and IQ overly undervalued?
I thought maybe it was a jab at phonetic approaches to literacy.
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04-28-2022, 09:39 AM | #93 |
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Re: Are DX and IQ overly undervalued?
Oh, because "read" and "reed" are homonyms. I don't expect logic from English. A number of other languages too.Not that long ago someone on another site was complaining about use of silent letters in French.
Then long ago after I discovered that spelling in Spanish was almost completely phonetic the back of my textbook told me that standard verbs in Spanish had 17 possible conjugations (counting forms with helper verbs). This was of course in addition to the 5 or 6 genders including genders for inanimate objects. Nope, you can study languages in a scientific manner but languages themselves are seldom scientific (or even just regular).
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04-28-2022, 02:51 PM | #94 | |
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Re: Are DX and IQ overly undervalued?
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04-29-2022, 06:24 AM | #95 | |
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The other extreme is polysyntheticity, where a verb is required to have BOTH a prefix or suffix telling you who the subject is and one telling you who the object is, so "I love her" can be expressed as a single word. This is found, for example, in Inuit, and I believe in Ainu, though I may be misremembering. Conjugations in those languages are incredibly complex, but on the other hand word order isn't much of an issue.
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