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I did my degree in English/French Language/Linguistics back in the '70s, but I only got a middling grade, and I've worked in software development ever since, so I'm really only an expert on English language in the same way any articulate native speaker is.

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Is it hard for software speech synthesisers to handle IPA? If so, why?
Jan 5, 2013
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Can all languages be "whispered" equally well?
Apr 3, 2012
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Is "sentence" a useful and/or clearly-defined term in linguistics
Jul 20, 2015
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Why are certain there-sentences infelicitous in English?
Sep 22, 2011
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Are there any "universal" aspects to "adjective sequence"
Mar 9, 2012
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Significance of "childish errors" in mainstream language change
Feb 8, 2012
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Derivational vs. Inflectional Morphemes
Oct 5, 2012
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Active vocabulary for Anglophones compared to native speakers of other languages
Feb 23, 2014
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Is there a US/UK difference in interpretation/usage of "compound verb phrases" split by an embedded clause
Feb 16, 2012
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Significance of "childish errors" in mainstream language change
Feb 10, 2012
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"Replace with" versus "replace by"
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An English idiom for "solve a problem that has been solved"?
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Is there a word for a change so small that it doesn’t seem to be a change at all?
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"There is/are more than one". What's the difference?
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Why is "He knows to swim" incorrect?

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