• Bappity
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    10 hours ago

    do other languages have the thing where sentences change meanings depending on what word you emphasize?

    “what’s PJ short for?”
    “what’s pj SHORT for?”

    whack

    • @[email protected]
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      87 hours ago

      Wait till you hear about languages that can have any word order because the object, subject, gender and other properties are communicated via suffixes.

      • Dharma Curious (he/him)
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        26 hours ago

        I know it’s a conlang so not the same, but that was my favorite thing about learning Esperanto. I could use comfortable word order when I was struggling with a sentence, and when I was comfortable with all the words, I could play around and have fun with it

  • Troy
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    1011 hours ago

    Okay, this one actually made me laugh