hopelesscaribou

You hear a lot about PTSD and soldiers. I can't imagine how traumatic it would be for an actual child (or parent!) growing up in a war zone/refugee camp. Is this something that is ever addressed and do you think it has implications on a generational scale?

Visualizing is a scale. You sound like a poor visualizer, a 1 or 2 on a scale of 10,with 10 being movie like quality. People with aphantasia have nothing but blackness in our heads, the actual concept of visualizing is something many of us don't even realize exists! (as I'm sure a few aphants will realize in this thread).

There are 2 types of grammar. The kind in traditional English grammar books, with rules like 'no splitting infinitives' (based on Latin rules) and the actual linguistic grammatical rules which reflect how a language is genuinely spoken by its native speakers. No native speaker would tell you 'to boldly go' sounds wrong, but the books will. English is also pretty unique in the vast amount of its vocabulary that is borrowed. Only about a third of our words come from Old English/Germanic roots.

Often, politics decide what is an official language. Swedish and Norwegian are mutually understandable and more similar than many English dialects are. Just curious as to what spoken languages have dialects that can't be understood. (not counting languages that share a written code).

Will agree for all dialects being mutually understandable... except Glaswegian.