(September 24, 2020 at 2:29 pm)FlatAssembler Wrote:Sal Wrote:If you heard my Faroese accent speaking English, you'd most likely notice the difference
I don't know about you, but I can't tell the difference between American English and British English from pronunciation alone.
I suppose English was very easy to learn for you, if your native language is Faroese.
Sal Wrote:I suspect you get this interpretation and view from Thunderf00t's critique of feminism.
I think most of what's called social science isn't really a science. I think linguistics is the only true social science. Phonetics is without a doubt an experiment-based science, even more so now in the time of speech-recognition software. Historical linguistics is also relatively scientific. De Saussure predicted the existence of a historical Indo-European language in which 'eH' corresponds to long 'a' in other Indo-European languages, 'Ha' corresponds to short 'a', and so on, 50 years before such a language was discovered. There is, as far as I know, nothing like that happening in other social sciences.
Great! We can forget about law.
And history.
And geography.
And anthropology.
Sociology, psychology, education, economics...none of these disciplines have ever contributed as much to the human condition as corresponding 'ha' to a short 'a'. Let's scrap 'em all.
Boru
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