Linguistics Is Lit

““Today’s proverb: Language will evolve, irregardless of your attempt to literally lock it away in a secluded tower. Obvs.””

if pronouns exist does that imply that electrnouns and neunouns are also real

what if french was good?

trilabial trill

"Undifferenciated lampiness"

"You can contemplate semantics anywhere; I hope you do"

"John and Mary are always up to something."

I once chatted with a guy from Hawaii, we started talking about languages. I mentioned that while I've heard very little of it and hardly seen more of it written down, the Hawaiian language seems to have extremely similar balance of vocals and consonants as Finnish does, so it's actually pretty likely that there are some words that exist in both languages, but mean one thing in Hawaiian and a completely differen thing in Finnish - much like in Japanese.

Okay so in finnish, "kala" means "fish" - just any fish, fish in general, and "kana" means "chicken". "Ele" is "gesture", as in a physical movement that an animal or human does to nonverbally communicate something. The -ni suffix is a possessive referring to oneself, essentially "my". In finnish, compound words are of the "if it doesn't exist yet, I can make one up on the spot" variety, so almost all nouns can be slapped together to refer to something specific.