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Verbal Emphasis

There are a cluster of words I’ve been more or less ignoring in norsk; words like “jo” and “vel.” They seem to come scattered randomly in sentences, shifting the nuance somehow, but I’ve been so busy focusing on what the nouns and verbs are doing that I haven’t unpacked all those dangly bits.

Today I decided to take the plunge, in another installment of Useful Conversations With ChatGPT

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Kaffe Kan Fikse en Tregmorgen

A playful deep dive into Norwegian compound word humor

Join me for another installment of my “Conversations with Robots” series.

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Molecular Vocabulary

Language is an extremely flexible tool. You can assemble words into messages that express an unlimited number of thoughts. Anything from “Where food?” to “Energy equals mass times the speed of light squared.”

But in everyday speech, we don’t typically use words to communicate. We actually assemble most of our day to day utterances using larger chunks of language. What are those chunks? And why do I think they can be used to supercharge your language studies?

Let’s take a look…