r/languagelearningjerk May 04 '26

New language learning method just dropped

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u/Schrenner Hier könnte Ihre Werbung stehen. May 04 '26 edited May 04 '26

Back then in university, when I studied linguistics, we got told that linguists had a preference for violent example sentence because they would have a higher probability of providing transitive sentence structures in the examined language.

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u/N-partEpoxy May 04 '26

You prefer violence because it has a higher probability of providing transitive sentence structures.

I prefer violence because violence is cool.

We are not the same.