Heterogenia Linguistico - Vol. 3 Ch. 26 - Down the Trackless Path

[Dudley]

Susuki is one sturdy girl.

 

[Liquidxlax]

@emmypacer are there still considering monsters as "material"?

 

[JosMenLed]

Susuki is so cute

 

[Beregorn]

@Esper
1) we don't know if he was better or worse: we know he did that for a long time and that it took him years to decipher werewolf. Our guy needed only a few months, but he had the professor's notes and an interpreter.
2) there are strong evidence that the cow guy actually met the professor, like, just in the last chapter

 

[PRAR]

I don't know what the original Japanese said, but wouldn't it make more sense if path and road were switched here?

Original: When we think of the meaning of the word "road", it is either "a path that has been maintained for travel" or "a route to a destination".
Switched: When we think of the meaning of the word "path", it is either "a road that has been maintained for travel" or "a route to a destination".

 

[Doomroar]

Well well well, looks like the professor was not the first one to got giggy with a werewolf.

 

[Xennith]

"Instead of universal could something else be causing this?" Heh its called the fur fever baby. XD

Note: I'm so late to this party lol.

 

[RealLotto]

The phenomenon our MC observed in the werewolf language where intonation is replaced by clearer vocabulary and syntax when transitioning from old werewolf to modern werewolf is an interesting mirror to the real life tranformation of synthetic languages from a synthetic syntax, that is languages that form sentences by stringing root words together with prefixes and suffixes, to a more analytic syntax, with clearer grammar that doesn't rely much on complex morphology to convey meaning. English is a good example of this.

There are some theories why this happen, a common hypothesis is that as borders open up and people start learning other languages, they find clearly defined syntax much easier to learn. Another hypothesis is the natural evolution of languages being a cycle of transitioning between being synthetic and analytic, with the evidence being some languages such as modern Chinese are actually more synthetic than their older, more analytic counterparts.

 

[BusinessGL]

Oh shit, was everything human before and was changed or is some god doing this

 

[annabelleannabelle]

LOVE the caterpillar cooking lesson, you GOTTA take out the poop!

 

[Retro68]

I'm wondering, did the other races evolve from humans, or perhaps the other way around...?