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The content of this grammar seems good and I like it! But I have a pedantic nitpick: Seeing the kana and kanji sections listed under "syntax" is a huge red flag
by canjobear 10y ago
The content of this grammar seems good and I like it! But I have a pedantic nitpick: Seeing the kana and kanji sections listed under "syntax" is a huge red flag for anyone trained in linguistics. The writing system is not usually considered part of the syntax (or even the grammar) of a language, rather it is just a means to express the spoken language on paper. These should be in an "orthography" section; they are certainly not syntax in the modern linguistics sense of the word. Just some advice to make this impressive work more palatable to linguists :)
- TheRealPomax 10y agoProtip: mention that over on https://github.com/Pomax/nrGrammar/issues https://github.com/Pomax/nrGrammar/issues rather than in a comment thread (or, of course, do both!). I stuck it in syntax mostly for chapter convenience at the time (it's been almost ten years O_O), but splitting it out into its own orthography section sounds fine to me.