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by Flaminius
Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:40 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: «Empires of the Word»
Replies: 3
Views: 11397

If a language gains eager learners outside its first speech community, it is one of the indicators of trans-national culture flourishing on the obverse side. On the reverse side, minor languages are withering. As long as the prejudice is extant that a langauge is a mere "means of communication,...
by Flaminius
Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:24 pm
Forum: Res Diversae
Topic: Getting the wrong suffix
Replies: 5
Views: 15129

Like the famous unalienable, which became accepted when some calligrapher misspelt inalienable rights in the final version of US constitution and the dignitaries from the 13 states signed the document.
by Flaminius
Mon Feb 28, 2005 9:20 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237776

Just to strengthen your first point;
妄, 奸, 妬, 娨, 婬, 娼, 婪, 媚, 嫌, 嫐, 嫉, 嫚, 嫖, 嬲 and 嬾

are your homework.

But I think finding positive kanjis with female radical (女) is as easy.
by Flaminius
Mon Feb 28, 2005 3:49 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237776

It's more like this;

1. I = 龍太郎 where (龍 = dragon)
2. Garrulous = 女 (woman) * 3 = 龍 * 4
3. from 1 and 2, I need to be 1.3 times garrulous as usual when I want to be heard before a woman.
by Flaminius
Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:37 pm
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Text Appearence
Replies: 54
Views: 237776

Yeah. Dragons are a bit meaker than you think they are. They have only 3/4 noisiness level of women. For other funny kanjis derived from dragon graph, see kooki jiten or Shirakawa's works. Dragon is written in 17 strokes of the pen (not the heart), the left radical requiring 9 and the right 8, strok...
by Flaminius
Sat Feb 26, 2005 8:01 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: Noun Order
Replies: 18
Views: 50890

In a careless speech I think I would resort to a phonetic alignment like, "Big blue new house." Of course the semantic alignment is what native speakers use from a very early childhood. I think we have picked on another piece of evidence how first language acquisition is different from sec...
by Flaminius
Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:34 pm
Forum: Grammar
Topic: "Question Tags" they are important, aren't they?
Replies: 28
Views: 122658

BD, if you read novels on blood and gore of samurais, you will find bracketted reference to those kanjis very helpful.
by Flaminius
Sat Feb 26, 2005 7:29 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64532

I have to go back to my Think Pad (strange! the mountain goes to the Prophet, not him to the mountain) to give my intended answer. If you can put up with a less satisfactory substitute till Monday, here it is;

tookon ware aete sono niku-o kurawa-zu.
kujira banzai demo iika.
by Flaminius
Sat Feb 26, 2005 6:48 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: REPROBATE
Replies: 9
Views: 20216

Apo, I think I have read "reprobate" in active voice in some text by one of the man of letters of 18th century England. If your example sentense, "His company officially reprobated him for taking kickbacks under the table," poses some difficulty of parsing, I should imagine the i...
by Flaminius
Fri Feb 25, 2005 11:04 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64532

I must confess that I haven't eaten whale meat for at least 15 years. 当今吾敢不啖其肉.
クジラ万歳、でもいいか。

Is my concession properly shown?


Edit: Laugh at my meticulousness but I corrected all the three posts.
by Flaminius
Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:48 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64532

I must confess that I haven't eaten whale meat for at least 15 years. 当今吾敢不啖其肉.
クジラ万歳、でもいいか。
by Flaminius
Fri Feb 25, 2005 10:46 pm
Forum: Languages of the World
Topic: Whale song
Replies: 32
Views: 64532

I must confess that I haven't eaten whale meat for at least 15 years. 当今吾敢不啖其肉.
クジラ万歳、でもいいか。
by Flaminius
Fri Feb 25, 2005 12:38 am
Forum: Suggestions
Topic: Suggestion Box
Replies: 67
Views: 296020

Re: Recent Posts List

Is there anything needs to be changed?
Could you change the hyper-link colour? Please see below:
http://www.alphadictionary.com/bb/viewtopic.php?t=46

Flam
by Flaminius
Thu Feb 24, 2005 6:40 pm
Forum: Spelling
Topic: What is it with PH & F?
Replies: 34
Views: 149319

Then
/p/ ---> [ph] / [+ syllable initial] : cannot make a superscript
/p/ ---> [p] / [- syllable initial]

or stops get aspiration when they stand at the syllable initial position but otherwise they are unaspirated.

Does this make more sense?
by Flaminius
Wed Feb 23, 2005 10:54 pm
Forum: Good Word Discussion
Topic: VALENTINE - A Preview (comments welcome)
Replies: 36
Views: 84095

You should check the synopsis of my link.

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