MoeLab! Japanese with Moe culture JM Abrassart Actually Japanese has a single word hayai that expresses both the concepts “fast” and “early”, there is no distinction between the two. But since the distinction is made in Chinese, it was imported in *written* Japanese

Thread: 1/8🧵 New paper out! "Prepositions in (English) Dictionaries" Ever notice how dictionaries define prepositions as words that "must take noun phrase complements" — but then give examples like "from here" and "before long" where the complements aren't nouns at all? 🤔

"Hah, Xerox company is the company that makes xerox machines!"

(Never heard of grad school) That’s awesome you’re pursuing your masters man can I ask how you’re tracking them?

Verbs-are-a-closed-class issue again 😬

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Me every time I open my Philosophy list on Twitter and everyone's just talking about whatever new Discourse™ is going on.

When it is hidden, it’s also called the jaguarledu.

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> ஒரே நாளில் "விடுதலை" பெற்றாலும் "சுதந்திர தினம்" வேறுபடுவது ஏன் This sort of stuff always gets a kick out of me. (Note: I'm not criticising it)

I love the Croon Helm descriptive grammar series but their books have terrible organisation and even worse indexing. It's a nightmare finding one specific sub-sub-sub-sub-subsection.

In 17th c the Académie Française ruled that the perfect could only be used for events within the last 24 hours