When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.
December 18, 2025 at 11:21 AM
When a man is in love how can he use old words? Should a woman desiring her lover lie down with grammarians and linguists? I said nothing to the woman I loved but gathered love's adjectives into a suitcase and fled from all languages.
Need I say, reading Latin grammarians will benefit my Latin proficiency too. I never have reviewed the declinations and inflections, and it's about time
December 16, 2025 at 10:32 PM
Need I say, reading Latin grammarians will benefit my Latin proficiency too. I never have reviewed the declinations and inflections, and it's about time
At the library this afternoon i got "Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages," so I'll be able to find grammars written in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods for comparison too
December 16, 2025 at 10:12 PM
At the library this afternoon i got "Grammar and Grammarians in the Early Middle Ages," so I'll be able to find grammars written in the Merovingian and Carolingian periods for comparison too
so uhh, they're allegedly not pronouns because they're....... pronouns..........
December 16, 2025 at 8:55 PM
so uhh, they're allegedly not pronouns because they're....... pronouns..........
The human brain has a way of correcting typos, and I love brains for that. Also why I can't stand the Grammarians...
December 16, 2025 at 6:50 PM
The human brain has a way of correcting typos, and I love brains for that. Also why I can't stand the Grammarians...
Style manuals disagree.
As Wiki notes, "Descriptive grammarians consider this to be a case of hypercorrection as explained in Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage.dddddddddd"
IOW, pedantry when applied to general discourse.
Plus, no one like a grammar Nazi.
But you do you.
As Wiki notes, "Descriptive grammarians consider this to be a case of hypercorrection as explained in Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage.dddddddddd"
IOW, pedantry when applied to general discourse.
Plus, no one like a grammar Nazi.
But you do you.
December 15, 2025 at 6:22 PM
Style manuals disagree.
As Wiki notes, "Descriptive grammarians consider this to be a case of hypercorrection as explained in Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage.dddddddddd"
IOW, pedantry when applied to general discourse.
Plus, no one like a grammar Nazi.
But you do you.
As Wiki notes, "Descriptive grammarians consider this to be a case of hypercorrection as explained in Pocket Fowler's Modern English Usage.dddddddddd"
IOW, pedantry when applied to general discourse.
Plus, no one like a grammar Nazi.
But you do you.
Fascinating that such a person would both be willing to literally wish the death of your family on you, and at the same time be afraid to spell out the R word. Perhaps grammarians will be our saviors after all…
December 14, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Fascinating that such a person would both be willing to literally wish the death of your family on you, and at the same time be afraid to spell out the R word. Perhaps grammarians will be our saviors after all…
ah here it is :)
![screenshot of paper:
3rd person singular:
Proto-Semitic *suʔa vs *suʔati
Proto-Arabic *huwa vs *huwati
Classical Arabic *huwa vs *huwah
QCT hw vs N/A
Safaitic hw [howa] vs (nothing)
Levantine hū vs huwwe/hūti
Egyptian hū vs howwa(t)
Proto-Semitic *siʔa vs *siʔati
Proto-Arabic *hiya vs *hiyati
Classical Arabic *hiya vs *hiyah
QCT hy vs (?) hyh
Levantine hī vs hiyye/hīta
Egyptian hū vs heyya(t)
Proto-Semitic made a distinction between nominative and oblique independent 3rd person pronouns, the latter terminating in the syllable *ti. While it appears that the functional difference between the two forms was lost at the Proto-Arabic stage, they nevertheless survived in usage. Reflexes of the oblique forms might be found in Classical Arabic huwah and hiyah, where the Grammarians interpret the final h as 'protecting' the vowel in pause. There is only one possible case in which an oblique form may be attested in the QCT, in 101:10, which gives the pronoun as hyh [hiyah] <
*hiyat < *hiyati (but other explanations are possible). (fotnote 34) Most modern dialects show reflexes of the oblique form (Zaborski 1996), mostly without the t but some preserve it.
These in general have replaced the old nominative forms. Their phonological development follows the same path as the word 'one hundred'.
*miʔatu > *miyatu > *miyat > *miyah > *miyyah
*hiʔati > *hiyati > *hiyat > *hiyah > *hiyyah
(footnote 34: This suggestion was first made by Adam Strich, whom I thank.)](https://cdn.bsky.app/img/feed_thumbnail/plain/did:plc:5gvygd24ilrqmbgsii2zzp3v/bafkreidkk55qpsmu4wpn6i26dvro4swngcck2ldeprp5nfm7rhnqrolt3a@jpeg)
December 14, 2025 at 12:36 PM
ah here it is :)
Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
December 12, 2025 at 6:36 AM
Grammarians make no new thoughts, but thoughts make new grammar.
In my 12th year living in Hawaii, I have finally accepted that there is no "d" in Shave Ice. Sorry, grammarians.
December 11, 2025 at 3:32 AM
In my 12th year living in Hawaii, I have finally accepted that there is no "d" in Shave Ice. Sorry, grammarians.
As egregious as her statement and agenda are, linguists and grammarians tell us that making verbs from of nouns and nouns from verbs is something that happens all the time in the evolution of language.
www.grammarly.com/blog/the-bas...
www.grammarly.com/blog/the-bas...
The Basics of Verbing Nouns
Let’s join the nearest imaginary business meeting where a group of people is dialoguing: “We’re all set, but we need to table that topic for…
www.grammarly.com
December 11, 2025 at 1:09 AM
As egregious as her statement and agenda are, linguists and grammarians tell us that making verbs from of nouns and nouns from verbs is something that happens all the time in the evolution of language.
www.grammarly.com/blog/the-bas...
www.grammarly.com/blog/the-bas...
Having to read AI generated text is really making me empathize with the Militant Grammarians
December 9, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Having to read AI generated text is really making me empathize with the Militant Grammarians
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I was just thinking about the fewer vs less debate. The distinction was put forward as a *suggestion* in 1770, not a rule. Nevertheless many grammarians have presented it as a rule. Nevertheless so many people ignore this ‘rule’, aren’t we back where we started?
December 8, 2025 at 4:05 PM
I was just thinking about the fewer vs less debate. The distinction was put forward as a *suggestion* in 1770, not a rule. Nevertheless many grammarians have presented it as a rule. Nevertheless so many people ignore this ‘rule’, aren’t we back where we started?
Yes but also the brain has those areas that "do" this abstraction; it's hardwired from birth, to speak metaphorically, though the details are up to the specific culture and language. Structural grammarians notice the kinds of things that are always there, like nouns and verbs. But whales, too.
December 5, 2025 at 8:19 PM
Yes but also the brain has those areas that "do" this abstraction; it's hardwired from birth, to speak metaphorically, though the details are up to the specific culture and language. Structural grammarians notice the kinds of things that are always there, like nouns and verbs. But whales, too.
Ball of Fire rules! Showgirls! Mobsters! Grammarians!
December 4, 2025 at 1:43 PM
Ball of Fire rules! Showgirls! Mobsters! Grammarians!
Happy purple grammarians shitpost furiously.
December 3, 2025 at 7:20 AM
Happy purple grammarians shitpost furiously.
I love the second part, mixing 'correct' converbs with finite converb-ish stuff. Adds a realistic evolutionary complicated taste to a lang, and would drive pre-modern linguistic grammarians up the wall which is a massive, massive plus
December 2, 2025 at 11:00 PM
I love the second part, mixing 'correct' converbs with finite converb-ish stuff. Adds a realistic evolutionary complicated taste to a lang, and would drive pre-modern linguistic grammarians up the wall which is a massive, massive plus
There have always been prescriptivist grammarians, even back in the days of you’re.
December 2, 2025 at 7:03 PM
There have always been prescriptivist grammarians, even back in the days of you’re.
For the grammarians amongst us who just went home and their 80+ year old mom corrected your English.
December 2, 2025 at 6:04 PM
For the grammarians amongst us who just went home and their 80+ year old mom corrected your English.
A lot of theory and advice on language teaching/learning sounds to me like "it took trained grammarians years or even decades to describe the system of this language's grammar, so we will teach you by having you rebuild it from first principles using only your intuition and flawed understanding!"
December 1, 2025 at 10:21 AM
A lot of theory and advice on language teaching/learning sounds to me like "it took trained grammarians years or even decades to describe the system of this language's grammar, so we will teach you by having you rebuild it from first principles using only your intuition and flawed understanding!"
When I was learning Slovenian, pronouns gave me fits. E.g., you say, "My washing machine is broken, can you fix him?" And academic grammarians are still working out how to speak about non-binary people in our inflected language. But English isn't the same linguistic obstacle course--so no excuse.
December 1, 2025 at 9:13 AM
When I was learning Slovenian, pronouns gave me fits. E.g., you say, "My washing machine is broken, can you fix him?" And academic grammarians are still working out how to speak about non-binary people in our inflected language. But English isn't the same linguistic obstacle course--so no excuse.
Reading the comments, Whiskey Pete will be lucky if he survives the grammarians. There may be nothing left of him for war crimes court to deal with.
November 29, 2025 at 3:46 AM
Reading the comments, Whiskey Pete will be lucky if he survives the grammarians. There may be nothing left of him for war crimes court to deal with.
*use to (for the strict grammarians!)
November 28, 2025 at 3:35 PM
*use to (for the strict grammarians!)