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James Grossmann
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I'm a conlanger who needs reliable information about real languages. By profession, I'm a speech/language therapist, so some of my questions may be work-related as well.

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What is the bio-mechanical plausibility of humanoid vampyres exracting blood by biting into a person's neck?
Jan 8, 2020
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Would a life-bearing Earth-like world with 3g average gravity produce more or fewer flying creatures than Earth?
Apr 11, 2020
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What sorts of powers would a superhero and supervillain need to (inadvertently) be knocking down skyscrapers?
Nov 4, 2022
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How would the behavior of hypothetical humans bred for 500 years to be meat-animals differ from that of actual humans?
Jan 6, 2018
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Could human skin be home to chromataphores, like a chamelion's or an octopus's [duplicate]
Feb 2, 2020
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Assuming an otherwise Earth-like planet with three times Earth's mass, how long could a healthy 20 year-old survive the heavy gravity? [duplicate]
Dec 24, 2017
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How large could an animal that only eats blood become?
Apr 15, 2023
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Can my city be full of giant rats?
Oct 21, 2022
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How to prevent super-strong slaves from escaping and rebelling
Nov 23, 2022
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Is it possible to have a fictional home-bearing huge tree?
Dec 23, 2017
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What is word order used for in "free word order" languages?
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How do tone languages assign phonemic tones to loanwords from non-tone languages?
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Are there any languages in which verbs are a closed class?
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Are there any languages that don't permit instrumental subjects?
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What are the chief advantages & disadvantages of describing sentences with dependency vs. phrase structure trees?