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Yellow Sky
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I've been working as a teacher of English and German for more than 15 years already. Linguistics is my life-long passion, I can speak and read lots of languages. My native languages are Ukrainian and Russian.

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Is there any language that uses different pronouns for "we" depending on whether the spoken to person is included in the group?
Sep 23, 2015
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Is there any evidence to support the claim that English grammar is unusually straightforward?
Sep 23, 2020
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Is J. R. R. Tolkien's "translation" scheme found in real life?
May 4
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Is there a word in a dead or lost language that we lost the definition to?
Jul 21, 2021
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Why does English not have a cognate of words like heter, in Swedish, or llama, in Spanish, etc?
Feb 19, 2015
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Are there languages without words for "father" or "mother" but only "parent"?
Jun 18, 2017
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Is Sanskrit really the mother of all languages?
Sep 4, 2019
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What is the function of the soft sign (Ь) in Russian?
Apr 21, 2017
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Are there languages with no first person?
Jun 28, 2016
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Is Thai language related or a descendant of Sanskrit?
Apr 6, 2017
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What does the phrase "Да нет" mean?
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Why does italic 'т' look like 'm'
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Why do Russians call some women a dynamo (динамо)?
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Why did quill pens persist until the early 19th century despite the capacity to make metal dip pens?
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What would influence an alien race to map their planet in a way other than the traditional map of the Earth

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