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In this episode of the Language on the Move Podcast, I speak with Dr. Kate Steel, Lecturer in Linguistics at the University of the West of England, in Bristol, UK. We discuss discursive management …
sorry my post was supposed to ask "What is that other thing...?"
Wait, that is the other thing that people call 'hybrid teaching'?
For some incredibly dumb reason, it never dawned on me until today that the root of the word "laboratory" is *labor*.
I would love to join!
Fellow historical linguists: what is your favorite text that explains *why* sound change is regular? (pluspoints if it addresses several theories or proposals)
Since "irregardless" is nonstandard and widely disliked, consider using an alternative, such as "unrespectant" or "nonregardful".
Well, in Denmark there are people decrying supposedly rising use of "tænke" as English influence...
The formulation "what do you think?" is more or less an established question type, but the question "hva tenker du?" (in Norwegian) is not regular in the same way. It it also difficult to translate because the English verb 'think' is both the verb of thought, opinion (=synes) and belief (=tror) 😮