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melissa_boiko
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  • Bochum, Germany
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Brazilian grad student working on Japanese dialects with a Dutch teacher in Germany.

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Why do Japanese people have difficulties in pronouncing English?
May 2, 2017
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Which languages have different words for "maternal uncle" and "paternal uncle"?
Mar 11, 2021
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Relationship between Geneva and gin?
Jul 9, 2020
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How does ghetto talk work in tonal languages?
Jan 13, 2018
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On the idea that Classical Chinese may *not* be direct ancestor of modern Chinese languages
May 16, 2013
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Is use of sorting expected and used in East Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean)?
Jun 11, 2017
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What are some alternatives to Chomskian generative grammar?
Sep 20, 2011
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Why the words for pineapple sound so similar in Hebrew and in German?
Jun 11, 2020
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Do words Deus and idea share the root?
Sep 22, 2019
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Why are some linguists and other people very much against conlangs?
Oct 11, 2012
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If Kanji are necessary to disambiguate homophones, how come it's still used, being that Japanese people seem to know the difference when speaking?
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Was Lovecraft's "Shunned House" a real building?
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Why do people refer to "cultists" in the Lovecraftian mythos, if Lovecraft himself never used the word?
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Does Japanese have an original word for banana besides the loanword バナナ?
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Do we really need to remember the kunyomi and onyomi reading of each kanji?