When you say that English morphology is simple, I assume you are referring to the comparative lack of grammatical inflection. English employs a wide range of prefixes and suffixes to form new words. So, while English is highly analytic, it is by

In this sense yes: Every language is a convention and convention implies rules. A non-standard variety of English has its rules and so anything that does not conform to the rules is "incorrect". In this sense no: If you are taking

Which means, in the case of the Basques, it is the Spanish, mostly Castillano-speaking, immigrants into the Basque region who should have learned Basque, right? It is not that simple. Not all Basques are Basque-speaking, just as all Welsh are not

<Their questions attack the premise that it behooves a person to assimilate linguistically, which is an ignorant position at best and a woefully irresponsible one at worst.> Would you say it is equally an ignorant and irresponsible position

I am tempted to say it is meaningless; it certainly does not reveal its meaning easily. It must have been written by someone with an MBA. I think it means: If members of a group feel they know what they are doing they will tend to work better

But the line between consonant and vowel is deliberately clear. I do not think it necessarily is. If we start with a definition that a vowel is a sound articulated without any obstruction of the vocal tract and that a consonant is a sound that is

then we agree.. <w> is not a vowel.. it's not even a semivowel Are you sure? I think that: (a) In writing <w> can function as a vowel sign (as in "cow") and as a semi-consonant (as in "won")

I think the problem here is that <w> is not used in quite the same way as <y>. Whilst one can have forms such as "sky" and "funny", forms such as "skw" and "funnw" are not found. When used in

A language is by definition what a group of people actually use to communicate, not what they are supposed to use and that someone else expects them to use. Can we have that up in lights! (I wanted to put it in huge letters, but can't

I think one of the people I met at a party last Saturday was an ambitransitive. I'm definitely not ambitransitive and dine at the other end of the table.