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>But you were originally stating that subjunctive in French lost its semantic value. Now you making it narrow and added "compared to Spanish". I said almost lost , and I'm choosing…

>That’s definitely not true, and what follows is thus complete bs sorry. Where does this come from to begin with? Alright I have my trusty Grammaire espagnole (Beschrelle) at hand,…

Except the subjunctive almost completely lost its initial semantic value of expressing the hypothetical or fictious in French, and in most cases has been replaced by the indicative…

The way you learn as an adult is very different from the way you learn as a child. There's nothing compelling about kid shows. I don't know what drives your efforts to learn a lang…

>I noticed that most of native speakers of any language are not that good actually in their mother tongue. That doesn't make any sense. Maybe they're not good according to the norm…

> The future perfect is very much used both orally The past conditional, maybe. The future, really? Do you actually say things like nous nous verrons demain or il l'aura fait avant…

No one would bat an eye if you used crédits instead of bons in that context, nor would anyone do so if they said s'inscrire à une salle de sport instead of s'inscrire dans une sall…

Like most complex interactions in life, it really comes down to just feeling when the time's more appropriate. Sometimes people explicitly ask you to correct what they just said ("…

Couple remarks on the author's alleged "weaknesses": >Understand strongly accented speech. I understand essentially all the “standard” French without subtitles, but very little of …

Yeah basically half the "mistakes" in that text aren't even wrong. I mean perhaps some annoyingly pedant French teacher, grammarian or Académicien would find something to say about…

I don't think genetic means what you think it does. In the field of genetics , a trait is said to be genetic when a genetic mechanism has been identified leading to the expression …

Ah yes, the famously identified "career women" and "divorcee" genes with well-known genetic pathways.

I don't get this comment. Subjectively, how am I supposed to justify that I find PUA crap repulsive? I just do. Objectively, how am I supposed to prove that it's of any use when li…

At what age should one be exposed to different cultures at all so they learn that everything they've experienced so far isn't an absolute constant of human nature? Pretty early I'd…

>Women are encouraged to not disclose their sexual history to partners or have sex too soon because they believe no man would ever love a woman who has sex quickly. >they do not su…

Absolutely not. There's no clear, ambiguous definition of "species" that does not have counter-intuitive implications. No, the classic "fertile over two generation" thing you learn…

...there are people who thought it was?

Your points are sound, but I'm puzzled by your last line: >It's really only Google and Facebook that get the vitriol. The way I read it, it seems as though it's unfair that they ge…

Lol idk what your experience is but mine is that verlan has basically permeated all casual conversations among everyone under 40. I guess you'd look a bit odd if you hung around th…

Verlan has gone into common use by all strata of the general population, not just immigrants. It's been the case for 50+ years. It's much decried by the usual suspects like the Aca…

Bet you $500 it won't.

A few things: -It's basically a HBD blog. HBD proponents love to pretend they're doing "science" by posting huge walls of texts that masquerade as papers but would be thrown out of…

Doing a bunch of point mutations that "look" like a normal evolutionary process seems awfully expensive just to engineer a virus that's less threatening than, you know, the flu.

>The amount of pseudoscience being peddled for attention or thrills in these threads is getting really worrying to me, I had expected something totally different from this communit…

While Taleb himself is kind of an asshole an endearing thing about him (to me at least) is that he pisses off bigger assholes and doesn't pull his punches when calling them out on …