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Recent content by SugarPlumFairy

  1. SugarPlumFairy

    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    Thank you for sharing, that's very helpful!
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    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    I see, you mean "simplification" in the sense that the range of vocabulary shrinks. Is this something that happens in English? When I think of simplification, I think of the reductions of inflections. English has very few left, so word order is very important. I'm happy that my native language...
  3. SugarPlumFairy

    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    Good one :D Don't worry, it's a very specific area of linguistics and kind of nerdy.
  4. SugarPlumFairy

    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    Kartoffelkopf! Never heard this one :D Where did you pick that up?
  5. SugarPlumFairy

    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    I'd love to study the change of language over time but I'm afraid I don't have the ressources, so I have to study language as it manifests itself in a particular point in time. How do you think, the simplification of language could potentially corrupt the transmission of thoughts?
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    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    Wow, you're an EFL teacher! English would also be my subject if I started working as a teacher (I studied Special Needs Education) but I decided to change subject and study Applied Linguistics as my master. Using corpora for teaching and creating teaching material is a really fascinating topic...
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    What do you collect?

    That's exactly what it is! You leave your old books there that you don't want anymore and other people can take them. That way, you don't have to throw them away and other people can get nice books for free. The best thing is that, due to the constant exchange, there are new books in there every...
  8. SugarPlumFairy

    What do you collect?

    Haha, sorry, this was a translation error from "Telefonzelle". I mean "telephone box". :D Telefonzelle – Wiktionary
  9. SugarPlumFairy

    Corpus linguistics, anyone?

    If you had to conduct a corpus research on language use of native speakers of English, which phenomenon would you be interested in? The tools, you can use are: 1. frequency (the number of actual occurrences of a particular lexical item in the corpus, e.g. the frequency of the word "literally"...
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    Hello from Germany!

    Wow, I'm absolutely overwhelmed how active this thread is! Thank you to everyone! Thank you for your kind words and wishes. <3 I'm really overwhelmed by the kindness from everyone here. I wasn't sure if I should register, but now I'm glad I did. I never expected that there would be so much...
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    What do you collect?

    I'm not really collecting anything, except if my succulents count (crassula and echeveria are my current favourite). My friend, who wants to become a preschool teacher, collects children's books and materials for her work. She already has several boxes full of it. I think, it's absolutely...
  12. SugarPlumFairy

    Hello from Germany!

    I'm really sorry, we make you stumble throughout the whole year :D
  13. SugarPlumFairy

    Hello from Germany!

    Thank you for your warm welcome! :)
  14. SugarPlumFairy

    Hello from Germany!

    Thank you! (Cute profile pic!) Thank you! I actually wanted to tell you that I really love Norway, but you might already guess from the other forum. :D Thank you for your advice. I'm sorry to hear that you had such a hard time. I guess, I need to clarify, by being alone I mean living alone...
  15. SugarPlumFairy

    Learning Other Languages

    Danke! You're right, it's not that hard for a native speaker of German, but at the same time, that's the challenge In the past, I was too lazy to learn words which are similar to German because I thought that they are too easy. As a result, I could understand those words, but they never became...
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