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Natural languages, communication, etc.
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``4 for $5 each''
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A supermarket sign Hass Avocados 4 for $5.00 ea [link] Is ``4 for $5.00'' being thought of as a price rather than a computation of a price? What force puts the ``each'' there? Kroger likes price computations because it keeps you from knowing what something costs, and so... more »
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Where were the Slavs during the Roman Empire?
 
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I'm beginning to think that the Romans used certain terms interchangeably to describe the northern and eastern barbarians, to whom they referred to as "Germania". The land mass of Germania extended to the far east to the Ural Mountains, from what I understand. It's very intuitive that Slavic speakers lived here as... more »
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The "u" and "v" in older written English is confvsing
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In older written English, there seems to be one written letter which served the purpose of 2 functions: to transliterate both the "u" and the "v". The symbolic representation was the "v". So, in the older days, a word like "Massachusetts" would be "Massachvsetts". I've got qvestions on this arrangement:... more »
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Cultural constraints on Aharip grammar
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Peter, as well as any other fans of Dan Everett's that are hanging around, may perhaps be interested in the above article which appeared recently on Greater Blogazonia. J.
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Surrey vowels
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A bit parochial this, so I apologize in advance. I hav just moved house and on my new commute into town my train passes through a station (pre-1974 Surrey, now Greater London) called New Malden. Everyone I know (RP or non-RP SE BrEng) pronounces the second word of this toponym as "'mo:ld@n". I hope I've got the transcription right -... more »
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