As of May 31, 2023, we have updated our Code of Conduct.
Linguistics

Nice Answer

 Nice Answer
Answer score of 10 or more. This badge can be awarded multiple times.

earned this badge 124 times.
"STARBUCKESE" syntax problem
Awarded May 28 at 12:03
Limits of historical linguistic reconstruction
Awarded May 20 at 12:15
What is the best romanization of ח?
Awarded Apr 21 at 22:35
Why were vowels secondary citizens in many of the worlds sound-based writing systems?
Awarded Apr 21 at 14:02
How to find source for cuneiform sign PAN 𒉼?
Awarded Apr 17 at 9:30
Why aren't conlangs very widely used?
Awarded Mar 30 at 3:26
How did the generic masculine emerge?
Awarded Feb 16 at 8:17
Stable words in the Indo-European language family
Awarded Feb 5 at 14:32
Using 'is' after non-denoting phrases
Awarded Jan 12 at 21:10
What do you call it when you write the next word in a sequence twice instead of the current and next word?
Awarded Dec 16, 2022 at 16:03
What is the term for this derivation: "Cheeseburger comes from Hamburger" but... the word hamburger didn't refer to ham
Awarded Nov 30, 2022 at 11:20
Why are modal verbs in English defective?
Awarded Nov 25, 2022 at 8:31
Are there languages without T-V distinction (but with two pronouns, one exclusive to singular, the other to plural)?
Awarded Nov 8, 2022 at 11:05
If the letter V occurs in a few native words, why isn't it included in the Irish Alphabet?
Awarded Nov 4, 2022 at 12:28
Vanishing of cases: general trend or specific to indo-European family?
Awarded Oct 18, 2022 at 14:22
Is "illegal" an example of nasal place assimilation in English?
Awarded Oct 4, 2022 at 9:26
Is the Dispilio tablet evidence of a pre-Sumerian and pre-Egyptian writing system?
Awarded Sep 23, 2022 at 13:07
Pronunciation of D sound in British English
Awarded Sep 12, 2022 at 9:17
Unaspirated plosives vs their voiced counterparts
Awarded Aug 23, 2022 at 7:43
How to split pronouns 'whom' and 'whose' into morphs?
Awarded Aug 4, 2022 at 16:27
Does Linear A potentially have the oldest Indo-European text that we know of?
Awarded Aug 1, 2022 at 19:27
Which language is more complex, English or French? Is it even possible to objectively measure a language's complexity?
Awarded Jul 12, 2022 at 5:22
Why do we use the names we do for grammatical genders?
Awarded Jul 10, 2022 at 20:06
Why does “&” look nothing like e and t
Awarded Jun 9, 2022 at 17:43
Are there modern languages without standardized spelling? If not, why?
Awarded Jun 7, 2022 at 9:25
What do "titles" and "Beijing" stand for?
Awarded Apr 4, 2022 at 20:04
Why is the question mark like this in Hebrew language?
Awarded Mar 15, 2022 at 19:07
What is the proper definition of a verb?
Awarded Feb 18, 2022 at 17:57
Why couldn't one combine rules from languages for sentences with the same intended meaning?
Awarded Feb 14, 2022 at 4:46
Why does the NATO Spelling alphabet contain words with more than two syllables
Awarded Dec 18, 2021 at 0:56
Is punctuation necessary in written language?
Awarded Dec 17, 2021 at 4:06
Do any languages use words like particles to represent commas, periods, hyphens, quotes, parentheses, etc.?
Awarded Dec 15, 2021 at 12:49
Does lexeme and stem mean the same?
Awarded Oct 26, 2021 at 12:25
Why is it called proto-Germanic?
Awarded Oct 8, 2021 at 9:10
How did Latin "aqua" became Sardinian "abba" and Romanian "apă"?
Awarded Sep 29, 2021 at 17:30
/t͡ʃ/ vs. /ʧ/ vs. /tʃ/
Awarded Sep 17, 2021 at 18:32
Why do Croatian and Italian contain the same grammatical endings for nouns and verbs?
Awarded Sep 5, 2021 at 11:10
Why did German <d> and <t> flip over?
Awarded Aug 28, 2021 at 3:46
Writing systems that do not preserve spoken order
Awarded Jul 29, 2021 at 14:03
Is there some equivalent of a "Grimm's law" that applies to the Semitic language family?
Awarded Jul 9, 2021 at 14:25
Why were writing systems invented independently during roughly the same period across multiple civilizations?
Awarded Jun 6, 2021 at 17:55
How did Greek loanwords with 'ae' come to be pronounced [i] in modern English?
Awarded Jun 5, 2021 at 20:06
Is there an effort to prove phonemes?
Awarded May 4, 2021 at 9:36
Since when did Indo-European languages start associating noun genders with male/female sexes?
Awarded May 3, 2021 at 10:35
How does the nonsense word "frabjous" conform to English phonotactics?
Awarded Apr 15, 2021 at 8:57
Who decides the phonemes of a given language?
Awarded Mar 5, 2021 at 5:18
Why are J, U, W considered part of the basic Latin Alphabet?
Awarded Feb 25, 2021 at 5:27
Proto-Indo-European and Proto-Yeniseian paper
Awarded Feb 21, 2021 at 1:58
Days of the week in Yiddish -- why so similar to Germanic?
Awarded Feb 15, 2021 at 9:06
Apparent exceptions to the sound law f -> h in old Spanish
Awarded Jan 4, 2021 at 22:16
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Oct 4, 2020 at 14:36
Is there a language where there are personal pronouns for the first or second person that have gender?
Awarded Oct 3, 2020 at 21:21
What are the subjective and objective genitives?
Awarded Sep 29, 2020 at 7:10
Did Eureka lose its H?
Awarded Sep 8, 2020 at 13:31
Why do even completely illiterate persons, who speak their national language poorly, speak their local dialect with perfection?
Awarded Aug 9, 2020 at 14:36
How languages compare with the number of different syllables from all words?
Awarded Aug 8, 2020 at 7:26
Is the Cyrillic letter 'Z' the same as the number 3
Awarded Jul 7, 2020 at 12:34
Is there such a thing as an L colored vowel?
Awarded Jul 5, 2020 at 19:57
Can Someone Identify This Diacritic?
Awarded Jun 30, 2020 at 18:46
What is the difference between case and adpositions?
Awarded Jun 25, 2020 at 6:25
1
2 3

Others with this badge

Your privacy

By clicking “Accept all cookies”, you agree Stack Exchange can store cookies on your device and disclose information in accordance with our Cookie Policy.