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Mitch
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Native speaker of American English (AmE) with touches of Southern AmE. Proficient in French and German. Elementary knowledge of Mandarin. Basic knowledge of linguistics.

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Languages that are gaining morphological distinctions
Sep 14, 2011
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Why do English verbs inflect so little, especially in regard to "person"?
Sep 21, 2011
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What's the 'official' term for when a word is at the tip of your tongue?
Oct 2, 2011
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Are some languages inherently harder for children to acquire?
Oct 19, 2011
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The current status of Irish Gaelic in Ireland
Jan 26, 2017
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What characteristics are unique to English (or at least rare among language as a whole)?
Feb 1, 2017
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Earliest recognition that Germanic and Romance languages are related
Dec 16, 2016
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Do linguists measure the relation distance between languages? How?
Dec 28, 2011
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Is "double positive meaning negative" a common phenomenon?
Nov 8, 2011
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What is the term for, and a list of, "continuous dialects"?
Oct 28, 2011
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Are questions about learning new languages on or off topic?
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Are literature-search-type questions welcome or no?
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Facilitating sentence diagramming?
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Overlap of Linguistics site vs the Languages site proposal vs individual Language & Usage sites and proposals
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How do you quote a passage that has used '[sic]' mistakenly?
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What is a feminine version of 'guys'?
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Alternative terms to "Blacklist" and "Whitelist"
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What do you call a disk with a hole in the middle?

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