| ▲ | shagie 6 hours ago | |
Ablaut reduplication is my favorite thing from linguistics. ( https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reduplication#English ) Tic-tac-toe. Flip flop. Live, Laugh, Love. Zig Zag. It's all I-A-O. Switch any of those around and it doesn't sound right. Learning about the order of adjectives (big old red ball - try swapping any of those around) when I was dabbling in Klingon and the affix contests ( https://klingon.wiki/En/WordplayContest ) of noun suffixes having to be in a certain order ( https://klingon.wiki/En/NounSuffix and https://klingon.wiki/En/RelativeOrderingOfSuffixes ). | ||