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Gadgets in the Wild Wild West
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"respectively"
For some reason, Germans often translate "bzw" (beziehungsweise) into English as "respectively", though this can be inappropriate in various contexts... AnonMoos (talk) 08:13, 7 May 2023 (UTC)


 * hm, my dictionary renders beziehungsweise as "respectively, or, or else; relatively," none of which would have much sense there! but i guess i shouldn't take those translations too literally. —Tamfang (talk) 14:48, 7 May 2023 (UTC)

So, you know my brother Raven?
In the Current Middle Ages, I am Inali of Tanasi, herald without portfolio and Hordesman. In mundane life, I am an Esperantist and active SF fan (TAFF delegate for 2020). Perhaps we do know each other? (By the way, I have created a mode of Dwarven runes for the writing of Esperanto, which I call the Angerthas Zamenhof; it derives from the mode of Moria, in order to take advantage of a couple of extra runes only found there.) Do you have a copy of Jaroslav Klement's 1979 Heraldiko-Veksilologio-Terminaro en Esperanto? I fear it's long out of print. Orange Mike &#124;  Talk  01:42, 20 May 2023 (UTC)


 * No and no, as it happens. Never heard of the book before.  (It's at least thirty years since I was active in SCA, and over forty since I saw Raven.) —Tamfang (talk) 01:47, 20 May 2023 (UTC)

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To answer your question...
Don't get me wrong, I think your edit was good and these edge cases really don't need to be brought up in that context, but to answer your question: Yes, you can have non-genetic direct relationships. For example, some languages can be a stratum of another language, such as the Semitic influence in Portuguese/Spanish, which results from a direct historical relationship, but not a genetic one. Arguably that sort of thing does exist in Altaic, so your edit actually removed ambiguity.

Just for another linguistics side comment, quite a lot of your pet peeves are examples of bad linguistics, you're making some progress on the far right column there!. :) Warrenmck (talk) 21:03, 13 July 2023 (UTC)


 * If you mean my recent edit on Altaic languages, that's nearly the opposite of my question: whether there can be "genetic relationship" without a common ancestor. —Tamfang (talk) 21:14, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * Creoles are descended from languages but not considered (generally) child languages of all of its parents despite direct continuity, it's a fuzzy grey area and you'll probably get a few different answers from specialists, which I'm not for that topic. Warrenmck (talk) 21:19, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * I might argue that the continuity is not all that direct! —Tamfang (talk) 21:26, 13 July 2023 (UTC)
 * And many specialists would agree with you! Warrenmck (talk) 21:49, 13 July 2023 (UTC)

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