#maybe... morphological analysis

[youwerethedefeated]

I know the official spelling for Hinata's name is "Shoyo" but I just can't bring myself to type it like that 😭 it just looks wrong idk. Like there's something missing. The best way I can describe it is: saying/writing Shoyo feels like going down a straight waterslide as opposed to a sinuous one, like with "Shouyou ". It goes by too fast. Do you get what I mean?

(Also it reminds me of the sauce and I can't take it seriously lmao)

[sscarletvenus]

GUN IN LOOKISM 506 ANALYSIS? WELL, SORT OF. mostly me yapping.

starting off with these Charles Choi lines said to Eugene...

during Kenta's backstory montage in the second affiliate, we see Gun as a child has already attained UI stage. physically, he has from the start (an interesting narrative choice i believe) been set apart as someone who has ascended mortal thresholds. no one in the story until now has his degree of UI proficiency, and the stage itself remained unseen or unheard of until Daniel reaches it.

in some ways, there is something eerily non-human about this particular manifestation of his strength. his existence is forever a pariah in the realm of humanity.

aside from the morphological louche qualities, Gun's ideals and thoughts have never aligned with the either the minds of his successor candidates or friends.

everyone in this story follows or strives to achieve certain purpose. revenge, romance, family, friends, self-preservation, money, power... all of which can ultimately be rounded off to humane desires and needs.

not Gun. Never. what he does have is, a morbid obsession with death, a frantic fascination to kill or be killed.

human nature is typically averse to the idea of death, which most perceive as an end. we know little about Gun's actual discernment of death. maybe it is linked to his yakuza upbringing, where death is matter of inches, everyday lived on knife's edge. to be subjected to a lifestyle of abject horror as a child irreversibly changes your psyche, after you have become so familiar with death, you associate some sentimentality with it. death is the only constant. so maybe, just maybe, he seeks it as comfort. as relief.

for him to kill is the greatest sincerity, and he displays this same sincerity to his master, i.e., Kenta's father. it's not cruel for him, battle is simply a means of honoring someone he respects. it's too terrifying to be comprehend by the mortal mind (Kenta cannot), but humans have never known the minds of gods or devils.

enacting violence is the most intimacy he can muster, as has been seen throughout the story. for all the atrocities he has inflicted upon the crewheads, he nurtures them because they show promise. he keeps them alive in hopes that someday they too can pay their respects to their master, kill him and reciprocate his outmost sincerity, show their devotion just like he has.

he is enraged and disappointed because they have another primary purpose that makes killing him secondary, he is infuriated because they fail to be sincere in annihilating him.

maybe this is why he's the way he is about UI Daniel, another inhumane creature of pure instinct who is not bound by man's fickleness towards death. hence the psychosexual infatuation.

"Let's kill each other," is what Gun says, upon meeting someone cursed by the same fate of never being human, such as himself.

Gun is insepreable from the idea of death in comic. perhaps i will make a more coherent and comprehensible post on the same some other day.

[imissthembutitwasntadisaster]

Everyone on this website is like "oh im such a linguist" when all they care about is historical linguistics and MAYBE sociolinguistics. Commit. Become willing to kill a man over the generative/cognitive theory divide. Write increasingly unhelpful morphological rules. Hell even just do a corpus analysis. Put your money where your mouth is.

[ukfrislandembassy]

I think that conlangs are a very useful way of seeing how the biases of linguistic theory manifest when applied by amateurs (and occasionally professionals). When linguists are promoting their theories they often like to make the claim that they can account for all phenomena, even if there's some clear foci for their actual attention. So the outputs of conlanging as a hobby make an interesting case study of the application of these theories, because the theories bias the kinds of structures conlangers actually end up including in their languages.

Specifically, it seems clear to me that internet-based conlangers especially show the clear effects of the assumptions made by what Jim Blevins terms the 'Post-Bloomfieldian Structuralism' that has been the default mode of linguistic analysis and theorising for decades now.

In phonology this manifests with the focus on phonemes and phoneme inventories, partly at the expense of phonotactics but especially phonetics. The result of this is a flattening of phonological structure; each of these phonemes ends up being tret as a unit of equal status within the system, with any kinds of distributional asymmetries between phones only included as an afterthought by means of some phonological rules.

It's why you get channels like Conlang Critic on Youtube pronouncing each of the individual phonemes of a conlang like that tells you what you need to know about the actual sound of a language. I rarely see any kind of restricted distribution or positional neutralisation of the kind seen in e.g. the Mandarin Chinese palatal series.

Morphology is where this kind of fixation most strongly manifests, because morphemes are an even worse fit for the morphological phenomena of natural languages than phonemes are for phonological phenomena. In effect what this leads to is the same kind of atomisation that we see with phonology; all 'morphemes' are tret as having equal status in the system, so you end up with a morphological system that just comes off as a phonologically more bound version of the syntax (but with more lists).

For instance, when was the last time you saw a conlang that made use of the concept of 'stem'? Or which showed syncretism between cells in paradigms? Have you ever seen a conlang that made use of a morphological pattern that could be considered 'morphomic'? I could go on.

None of these are somehow 'strange' or 'exotic' phenomena; they're found to some extent in pretty much all Romance languages, perhaps most elaborately in French, and much of this also crops up all over Germanic too.

I think there might be some of this tendency in the lexicon too; homophony and polysemy seem oddly infrequent in conlangs, even though they're ubiquitous in natlangs (English I/eye and you/ewe are particularly neat for showing that not even pronouns are safe from this). I've not got as much to say on this as I don't tend to pay so much attention to conlang lexicons, so I could be wrong on this one.

The actual relationship of conlangs to linguistic theory is messy, and I'm acutely aware that this is largely anecdotal. Indeed, plenty of experienced conlangers make a point of highlighting at least some of these issues, and there's definitely conlangs that avoid many of these issues (Siwa/Siųa is a good one for this, you'll have to dig through the thread to get to the actual grammar). My intent here is mainly to get some discussions going, because the real question is actually 'how do we get the conlang community to understand these phenomena and make use of them at the kinds of rates that we actually find in natural languages (which is pretty much any language with morphology, with maybe a couple of exceptions)?'

[tthatsonme]

Intellect, by molly.

— People often underestimate the seriousness of your sudden shift of motivation, in this day and age; it’s uncommon to see anyone (especially younger people) read a book or have any interest in having goals whatsoever, but you’re different, you’ve set the curve, you’re the centre of attention and everyone should be like you especially when it comes to academics, parents are constantly asking you to teach their kids your way because of how effortless your work ethic and dedication to school seems.

— Whenever the teacher needs an example on how to do a math equation or what a well written and worded essay SHOULD look like they always hold up your assignments as an example, you are 100% the best example of what a student should be like an any generation but especially this one, all of the parents and guardians with the “brain rotted iPad babies” or “wasting their lives away because of technology addiction teenagers” beg you to tell them what your “secret is” but maybe you’re not even fully aware of your greatness or level of discipline and success.

— You have a very distinct and important morning routine that you do every day, whether your routine has 4-steps or 40-steps it’s almost like it’s been burned into your DNA to follow it daily, your routine is not optional, you have the most perfect sleep schedule it’s almost as perfect as you, but in case you need a late study night you wake up everyday well rested regardless of whether you slept a full 8-hours or not, your memory to do things is amazing, you have a better memory than most people in your classes, you remember everything that you hear, read, and write in terms of school, you remember how to spell everything, your handwriting is always neat and legible, you could basically rewrite the dictionary at this point, fun fact: most people in this generation aren’t fluent in English because of the lack of spelling and vocabulary (my teacher said this so it’s probably true), while the other people in your class are crying over the phone ban if you have you you’re perfectly fine without your phone for 6-8 hours a day, you’ve never had any issues writing stories or having original thoughts, you have an extremely expanded vocabulary and are an amazing writer, “You don’t use brain rot?? Nerd alert!” It’s surprising to hear someone only use quote “brain rot terms” ironically, whilst the rest of the world is having unintelligent conversations about skibidi toilet and whatnot you’re the complete opposite.

— You have no issues in and are the best at all forms of mathematics, geometry, algebra, calculus, arithmetic, trigonometry, number theory, statistics, set theory, topology, discrete mathematics, probability, combinatorics, numbers, mathematics analysis, analytical geometry, differential equations, applied mathematics, game theory, pure mathematics, linear algebra, numerical analysis, and matrix algebra, natural sciences, engineering, medicine, finance, computer science and social sciences, biology, chemistry, physics, astronomy, earth sciences, zoology, ecology, microbiology, astrophysics, neuroscience, logic, ethics, psychology, philosophy, mechanics, and social sciences, morphology, sociolinguistics, pragmatics, psycholinguistic, linguistics, phonetics, historical linguistics, stylistics, and computational linguistics plus whatever other courses and classes that you have. [If this last part seems random it’s because it is, it’s copy and pasted from a personal sub I made a year ago for 11th grade :p]

_Things to remember

You can and will only ever manifest what you desire from this subliminal

Make sure not to obsess over your results because they can lead to limiting beliefs

You don’t have to listen daily or 1-7 times or anything like that, one is always enough with any subliminal :)

[cedar-glade]

I really don’t know Jack still? do you? 

Maybe @spatheandspadix might shed some light on this one.

perhaps y’all have noticed extreme variations in populations of this classic spring plant.

Here is this one:

Narrow spathed, cupped, vibrant color, acuminate  and small. Potentially A. acuminatum???

Ahh yes, a classic to run into while out and about in the forest in May, I still don’t know what subspecies this is and its been in my drafts since like 2016, odd enough I didn’t think this complex would be unresolved this long considering the fact that cernua complex, rudbeckia fulgida complex, and eastern Viola complex(shout outs to Iris Copen and Dr. Harvey Ballard the homies from OU and ODNR/ONAPA) have all had papers since then and so far 3 subspecies have been noted and gone through chromosome analysis and ITS analysis. Non of which are the jack you see above.

Jack in the Pulpit is an incredibly variable and diverse complex/sect. that we see often enough. Morphological variants and subspecies are very noticeable when they occur due to multiple characteristics such as soil specific populations and floral ridges, dwarf like traits, or tapering like you see above. 

Flora of the south eastern USA states this:

“ A genus of about 150-170 species, of Asia, e. North America, e. Africa, and Arabia. Infrageneric taxonomy follows Ohi-Toma et al. (2016). The taxa of the Arisaema triphyllum complex have been variously treated as species, subspecies, varieties, and forms. They are here treated as species with relatively subtle morphological distinctions; they are broadly sympatric, and sometimes occur together in mixed populations with little sign of introgression or hybridization and seem to behave as biological species. Arisaema quinatum (mixed leaved jack) has often been treated as a full species and seems to warrant that status. Arisaema stewardsonii (big ridged hooded bog jack) seems amply distinct in morphology, northern distribution, and boggy habitat. Arisaema triphyllum (common jack) is tetraploid and does not produce fertile seed when crossed with the other (diploid) taxa, including A. pusillum (dwarf alkaline Jack), with which it is broadly sympatric (Treiber 1980).  The size (though diploid), strongly attenuated spathe apex, and geographic integrity seem good reason to accord A. acuminatum (narrow pointed long spathe jack) species status as well.  Species concepts in this treatment largely follow the review by Wyatt & Stoneburner (2022).”

All of this said we still have outliers like this one.

Opening like rich mesic hillside, overall alkaline.  Caldwell NP, Cincinnati Parks, Cincinnati Ohio.

[ijosijen]

Neat Irregularity In Old Sogoic Adjective Agreement

I think this is the first time I've mentioned it on this blog, but Old Sogoic is a Sellan language (i.e, fairly closely related to High Gavellian), though the Old Sogoic period (c. 850–500 B.P.) came a fair time before the Cadan standardization of High Gavellian that I'm documenting (early centuries A.P.) or even the point where "High Gavellian" became a distinct concept outside of Koine (riight before the turn of the millennium).

I digress. The irregularity here is a splinter from Declension VI detailed down below. As a result of a sound-shift vowel insertion to break up an unwanted sequence at the syllable boundary, the 'irregular' class takes the root (this is romanisation, not ipa, though it is phonologically transparent atm) icx- and simply adds an -ir for gender agreement and then -e/-i/-i/-ue for case and number agreement. It's so nicely agglutinative!

but this is the irregular pattern. compare a similar stem in declension six like sios-. In the light gendered agreement pattern, it matches icx- exactly:

icxe, icxet, icxem, icxesse

siose, sioset, siosem, siosesse

buuut ofc the "expected" dark agreement pattern...

siosire, siosiri, siosiri, siosirue

...is completely incorrect! because that final consonant is only a part of the light stem, for some reason! the dark stem deletes it!

siore, siori, siori, siorue

It's all so very nice. The vowel insertion during the sound shifts on the xre /.kxre/ clusters prevented the consonant loss that hit every single other adjective in the class. Maybe if there were more preservation examples than this one (rather rare) cluster then it'd have spread through analogy/morphological leveling or somesuch, but it hasn't. so it's just an irregular pseudo-class that only retains some super common adjectives (as detailed in the pic, icxe/icxre "new" makes that cut). The rest of them have this fun stem consonant deletion thing going on. Which also means that if you hear a Declension VI adjective in its dark agreement form you've got like zero clue as to what the consonant at the end of its stem is. rip rip.

Again, maybe I'll level that out, but realistically what I'm probably going to do is collapse the adjectives into 2-3 declension classes max. Probably going to move them up into 5-6 as the language gets more (yes yay more) fusional. Unfortunately we've got a billion incoming noun cases (lots of adpositions just went postpositional & suffix mode) that I don't really see the adjectives agreeing with, but at the least that's one place where the marked nominative agreement is going to hold on. Rest of the language (family) is doing its level best to purge itself of any remnant ergativity.

Here's a language intro tangent:

Old Sogoic is somewhat fusional, though sound shifts have rendered its inflection system fairly neutered and highly syncretic. It's undergoing the same areal morpho-phonological reduction pressure that the nigh-isolating High Gavellian emerged from. Given the circumstances it managing to hold on to this much (16 verb inflections, up to 4 noun inflections, up to 8 adjective inflections, grammatical gender & number) is insane.

The adjective classes are weird and I like them a fair amount. The first/second declension distinction is barely a formality and only exists because of One insanely productive derivational suffix (the gods' strongest soldier, good work -on).

It also exists because this analysis lets me line up the adjectival inflection patterns with their cognate noun declension patterns. If Declension II didn't exist then I'd probably have to skip the number anyway.

Otherwise the six declensions are sorted into three pattern groups depending on their agreement behavior. I and II are defective when it comes to number agreement, III & IV don't agree for gender, and then finally V & VI have full agreement in all situations.

Going off what I mentioned earlier but wrote later:

As Old Sogoic evolves into Neo-Sogoic (where its speakers escape the black hole of isolation by ironically isolating the community from the rest of the sprachbund) planning on having it get even more fusional, which means that I'm probably going to have V & VI style patterns of full agreement extend to the entire adjective space. Hooray. This'll mainly favor the absolutive forms, but I won't see if I can't force the case-like suffixes to agglutinate to the adjectives too. That'll get a whole bunch of new agreements in real quick.

[ranahan]

So I totally missed #lexember. But even so, I thought that while I’m still writing up my morphology analysis and editing the monster extended dictionary (sitting currently at 8,5k entries without duplicates removed—the finished thing will be shorter… I hope), I might try to post at least some analyses & derivations. Let’s start with the common complaint that Mando’a doesn’t have a word for the verb to fly. It does, however, have a root for it:

*sen- (‘fly’)

In canon Mando’a, this root appears in several words:

senaar, (n.) ‘bird’

From sen + aar, an agent suffix which also appears in chakaar (‘robber’) and galaar (‘hawk’). So senaar is basically “a flyer”. I thought that it could be extended to also apply to any other sort of winged creatures, like bats and butterflies, analogously to te reo Māori manu.

me’sen, (n.) ‘ship’

From meg + sen, literally “that which flies”. Colloquially might also be called senaar or just sen.

sen’tra, (n.) ‘jetpack’

From sen + tra (‘starfield; space; sky’).

Now let’s make some derivations!

senir, (v.) ‘to fly’

Simple and easy, because it’s such a basic action.

senyc, (adj./adv.), ‘flying’

Again, let’s keep it simple.

senad, (n.) ‘pilot’

Can equally be spelled as sen’ad. Literally “fly-man, the person who flies”.

ge’senad, (n.) co-pilot

Mando’a has several fun native affixes, ge’/get’ meaning ‘near, almost’. The meaning here could be either “almost a pilot” or maybe “near the pilot, the guy sitting next to the pilot”.

sesen, (n.) ‘fly’

Or, y’know, spell it as se’sen if you like. We’re not picky. Mando’a uses reduplication to derive new words. English doesn’t have reduplication, but it’s rather common cross-linguistically. The meaning is often iterative (which seems to be the case for Mando’a), but it can also have less iconic senses or grammatical functions. In Mando’a, the reduplication pattern is a CV- prefix for roots that begin with a consonant. So here a fly is literally “fly-fly”, because when do they ever appear one by one, instead of in swarms?

[impishdullahan]

What would you say is your favorite part when it comes to making languages?

Genuinely, the serendipity of when it all comes together into something that feels cohesive. This can be at any level, honestly. Maybe the weird phonology is giving a tough time but then you finally make a tweak and the analysis just slots into place really easily. Finding that perfect degree of irregularity thats underlyingly predictable but not on the surface and becomes an import part of the phonaesthetic. Drawing a grammatical distinction that feels really clunky at first but after enough forcing it wherever you can it eventually becomes the backbone of the entire grammar and you can't imagine it without. Setting up neat bits of morphology that make the phonology shine. Repurposing old morphosyntax to handle new types of information structure.

I guess, in short, making all the weird quirks the star of the show rather relegated to the peripheries.

[lolottes]

If it's a child, it might mean he has a protective parent nearby, and since this is the first time he's seen a being of this kind, maybe he's a lost juvenile and we should expect a panicked adult to arrive soon.

Unless it's a young individual who has just become independent and is currently exploring in search of his future territory, and given the interest he seems to have in the city... is he thinking of settling here?

Given his morphology, is he some kind of legendary sea subspecies for the Atlanteans, just like giants or cyclops are for humans?

A great debate is taking place throughout Atlantis while some Atlantean teenagers challenge each other to see who will be brave enough to approach the giant the closest.

Will one of them go so far as to touch Danny? Would Danny even notice being touched?

Will the Atlantean scientists try to collect a skin or hair sample for analysis, etc.?

Does Danny have a heartbeat or is he breathing? Because if he doesn't, the Atlanteans will eventually realize it, and this will add to the panic and existential horror of the situation.

DpxDc #19

Call of the void.

(shorter than my usual, but a funny thought. Also, little drawing at the end)

Something that Danny wanted to explore together with space, was the ocean.

The thing is: both were terrifying to him, but the thrill of the unknown, the immense voids that nature was capable of...

It was absolutely, existentially dreadful.

He loved it!

He wasn't really afraid of getting lost if he tried to take a stroll around, since he could quickly reach land, so why not try?

It wasn't really his fault that he let himself go!

Danny didn't even realize it was happening, but ectoplasm is a substance that tends to fill space. Between molecules, between atoms, it's everywhere, it's the ambient.

Long story short, he only found out that he had grown to the size of Godzilla when he was casually passing by Atlantis.

He hadn't even noticed the underwater city until he heard screaming coming from below...

Something about a leviathan?

[generationfertility]

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Physical Exam: 15-20 minutes

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[there-is-no-try-only-studyblr]

About me

she/her

19

Canadian

ADHD, ASD and Anxiety

Attempting university

I’ve struggled with school all my life and now wanted to make a studyblr to try to help me stay motivated this year and document/share my experiences as a disabled student. Maybe romanticizing my life will help.

The classes I will be taking this year are:

(Fall)

Acting theory and practice (ATAP)

Theatre production 1

Morphology

Play analysis

(Winter)

Acting theory and practice (ATAP)

Theatre production 1

Statistics II

Voice and speech skills

[heerthat]

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Adding sounds ex nihilo is called epenthesis and it's a very common sound change, maybe one of the most common. Many languages have epenthetic vowels that break up disallowed consonant clusters, or epenthetic consonants that break up vowel clusters (this is the case in English dialects that have linking-r, it breaks up vowel hiatus at word boundaries). Old Japanese also had epenthetic /r/ between vowels, word-internally, which is now fossilized in conjugation and is why so many Japanese verbs end in -ru. Some languages break up vowel hiatus with a glottal stop, etc.

What makes French interesting, of course, is that liaison can't be analyzed as a synchronic case of epenthesis, because the vowel that's added isn't predictable from the phonological environment, it's lexically determined. This means you either have to include that vowel in the underlying (phonemic) representation of the word and posit a deletion rule, and you have to resist analyzing it as a synchronic phonological phenomenon at all and say that it's purely morphological; each lexeme just has two forms that surface in different environments. I think the latter analysis probably hews closer to the cognitive reality but either analysis is formally valid.

because we're writing-brained we think of french words as having "silent letters" which are sometimes "not silent" when followed by a vowel in the next word (liaison). but of course a french child is not learning their basic vocabulary from reading, theyre hearing the words and mimicking. and i guess the human brain is just totally willing to accept that sometimes a given unit of meaning has an extra sound at the end, depending on what comes before or after it. i mean i know phonology depending on environment is one of the main linguistics things but its weird to see it so *discrete* and *explicit*, its not just subtle influence, its a whole consonant popping up out of nowhere.

the general term for this kinda thing is sandhi, american english lacks it but apparently the british have it re: rhoticity sometimes. but r is weird. so idk if it counts. anyway sandhi includes general influence from outside words and im much more interested in the sudden appearance of a phoneme, it's weird to me that our minds are okay with storing two phoneme-strings for the same word. maybe in some sense one really does think of the phoneme as "always being there" and just being silent most of the time

[frenchiepal]

a little weird question but i am very interested in studying linguistics! can you maybe talk a little about what you do in school/university ? i find it super fascinating.

Not a weird question at all! But perhaps a dangerous one since I could talk about this topic for hours dbsdvs💕

So, linguistics is a very diverse field of study. My first two courses were an introduction to phonetics and linguistics in general. In phonetics, you learn how humans produce speech sounds, including the anatomy behind it, and how to record and analyse them. You'll also come into contact with this gem:

...which teaches you all the sounds that exist in the languages of the world. It is my treasure and my pookie🤧💕

The curriculum varies from uni to uni but I had courses dealing with grammatical categories = how linguists classify different grammatical structures in different languages. Also, morphology = what even are words? where does their meaning derive from? Phonology = sound systems of different languages. We recorded ourselves and others using PRAAT, a software used for speech analysis, and learnt how to...well, analyse and manipulate the data.

Those are the basics, I'd say.

Later, we had courses on language contact (how languages influence and shape each other), linguistic typology (putting languages into different categories and try to find a way to compare them), prosody (everything suprasegmental in speech, meaning stress, intonation, rhythm etc.) and syntax (how do sentences work?).

You'll probably also learn about statistics.

Other unis additionally teach psycholinguistics, sociolinguistics, historical linguistics, language acquisition, semantics and pragmatics. Mine doesn't tho😩but if you wanna know more about that, try asking my lingi friend @linguadesk whose uni offers a better curriculum.

Sorry for the long answer, I hope I was able to give you an overview! 💖💗💖

[max1461]

hi. i feel like you'd have an opinion on like: is it lame to keep up the no morphological plural shit with japanese loanwords into english. i cannot help but roll my eyes a little when i hear somebody talking about like All These Anime (vs All These Animes) but intellectually i don't, like, disrespect that decision. and like i wouldn't say "inuks" or "parenthesises" so maybe i am being inconsistent

Hmm, so I should start by saying that for me, whether the zero marked plural or the plural in -s is more natural depends on the word. E.g. I think think I vary between anime and animes in the plural fairly freely; if someone where to prime me by saying "anime" I'd probably use that form without thinking about it, whereas I suspect were that not true I'd use "animes" most of the time. I was gonna say "since I don't have a corpus of my own speech it's hard to say", but I kind of do, it's this blog! But I'm too lazy to try and do any kind of analysis on it. And it isn't totally natural speech either, there's all kinds of weird style things going on. But yeah.

On the other hand, something like sushi is just a mass noun for me. I would say "I ate two pieces of sushi", never "I ate two sushis", although I know this usage is attested. Interestingly this is probably the closest to the way it works in Japanese, where all nouns are in some sense mass nouns.

Anyway, I don't have a problem with either usage or anything. I kind of think the phenomenon of people trying to imitate Japanese plurals is interesting, it's one of fairly few languages that English speakers do that with. If you want to sound cultured, you say "a criterion", "a few lacunae", and "two anime". The fact that people can sociolinguistically pull on knowledge of Japanese grammar to indicate sophistication says something about history and geopolitics, which is neat. Legacy of the Meiji reformers.