Actually it was I who spent a bit of time inviting the old agorans to stop by here. Only in the most tactful way of course.

Katy

Yes, tactful indeed, not mentioning my age in picking me as an old agoran. Tons of thanks, if I haven't said so before.

Discourse markers didn't exist forty years ago when I had my first encounters with university linguistics. Nowadays they seem to constitute a politically very correct field of research. In spite of this, I hope that I some day will have enough spare time to read up on the subject.

The Danish opposition p/b etc. is traditionally characterized as "fortis/lenis". It is neither [± voicing] (all are [-]) nor [± aspiration] (all [+]). My IPA booklet says "Initial p, t, k strongly aspirated" and uses the "devoiced" symbol (b, d with undercircle, g with ...

Many thanks. I never thought of the headings being outside the scripture. Perfectly logical.

OK, so there are two forms of the one name. I guessed so much. But why the consistent use of one for the chapter and the other one for the person?

Anders your discourse on the Chinese words is fascinating. was there a point you were making that I'm just too dumb to get? Just having arrived at home after three hours of Chinese lecture when I wrote, I'm afraid that my post isn't too interesting to people who know little or nothing of that langu...

Always looking for solutions, my favourite solvent right now is ethanol, despite its mind-altering effects and other health hazards.

WUI, specifically of the C2H5OH in the very nice red South African Drostdy-Hof.

(For those of you who are new to it: Writing Under the Influence)

I had to wait before posting here. When my Irish Setter died because of an incurable blood disease, I couldn't discuss it with people without bursting into tears. It is difficult enough today, some six years later. Dogs are no less human than humans. So, leaving the dog aspects aside, I found it int...

Having looked at Flam’s signature, I became interested. Isaiah is Jesaja in Swedish and German. In those three languages, the name of the book is the same as that of the prophet himself (as given in Isa. 1:1). My bilingual Latin-Hebrew Bible (1740) has in its Latin version the book as LIBER JESAIAE ...

etiolated is a plant that has grown tall thin and pale seeking the sun where it can't get enough to build any good chlorophil to be healthy.
Katy

FWIW, that's the only way I ever used it.

I have a slight problem with the Hebrew text. I prefer a more Times-like font, but when I copy a line of Hebrew to Word, the words are all right, and I get more Bible-like font automatically -- but the words are in reverse order! Do any of you know of any settings in Word to remedy this?

At least the way I interpret my dictionary, it can be pronounced dishévld, with no indication that the 'sh' should be regarded as one sound. But I may be wrong.

I really liked the Chomskybot.

During my U of Technoly years, the highest praise for a pun was "Den var dålig", "That was a miserable/poor/bad one".

Slavic and Baltic languages can have double or even triple negatives, still meaning no more than a Germanic single negative. The heaped negation is in fact unique to Balto-Slavic languages among the IE ones: Latv. vins nekad neka nezina ’he never knows anything’ = Ru. on nikogda nitchego ne znaet .