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- Mon Aug 14, 2006 5:15 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 267116
Re: On the subject...
This old form is quite different from modern standard devangari (it's also upside down): http://titus.uni-frankfurt.de/personal/jg/unicode/table7.htm#tabelle I hesitate to call the upside-down lines (in the middle; below the Persian) devanagari. They seem to be very influenced by the ranjana script...
- Sat Aug 12, 2006 2:44 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Post haste
- Replies: 37
- Views: 65628
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 6:07 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Post haste
- Replies: 37
- Views: 65628
I failed to mention that e-mail is always that, and never 'e-post' (although I'm sure someone's tried that). I think we've been into this sometime, somewhere, but anyhow. I insist on on translating into Swedish, so I write e-post. Many customers will prefer e-mail, but then they'll have to make the...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:59 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Die Übermodel
- Replies: 8
- Views: 29307
Try changing the character encoding (most browsers will put it under the 'view' menu) to 'UTF-8'. You might need a good Unicode font like Code2000 . That should help. Should, but didn't. Often it helps to copy such passages to Word and apply the font. Slightly better but not perfect. What doesn't w...
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:27 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Forms of address -- formal
- Replies: 36
- Views: 72878
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:13 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: "Foreign" language anomalies
- Replies: 19
- Views: 84574
- Fri Aug 11, 2006 5:06 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 267116
Suppose there were a song in Chinese named Beijing, Beijing . You could write it 北京々々。 Single 々's are used in Chinese as shown for Japanese. In Hindi and Indonesian, the repetition of a word may be indicated by a superscripted numeral 2. Frank, go here for a utility and font to write in the Nasta'li...
- Thu Aug 03, 2006 4:38 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 226074
- Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:15 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 226074
- Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:04 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: My Local Newspaper has done it again . . .
- Replies: 35
- Views: 93169
- Sun Jul 30, 2006 4:00 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 226074
It seems, though, that "duck tape" precedes "duct tape".
For many of such errors/misunderstandings/etc., there's tons of examples, rivalling the number of the Eskimo words for 'snow', for which, like eggcorns or snowclones, you'll enjoy searching www.languagelog.com.
For many of such errors/misunderstandings/etc., there's tons of examples, rivalling the number of the Eskimo words for 'snow', for which, like eggcorns or snowclones, you'll enjoy searching www.languagelog.com.
- Tue Jul 25, 2006 3:21 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: More from the Language of Advertisers
- Replies: 41
- Views: 94691
Re: More from the Language of Advertisers
What do Chinese people call Chinese Food? Food. Well said. The most disturbing tv ad I've seen lately features a local car dealer in a superman-esque outfit, complete with whipping cape, ranting about the super deals they're offering for a limited time only. Thank god he is filmed from his waistal ...
- Fri Jul 21, 2006 10:56 am
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Miss Spelling
- Replies: 12
- Views: 53818
- Mon Jul 17, 2006 1:10 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: kind of bread
- Replies: 26
- Views: 90613
Why ask for English only? In Swedish, it's formbröd , from at least 1925. In households, it is baked in a långpanna . Obviously, form = form, bröd = bread, lång = long, panna = pan. Our 'loaf' is a limpa , but used to be lev , which might have survived in dialects. Finnish has borrowed it as leipä .