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- Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:48 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: How does your brain learn languages?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 106212
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:35 pm
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Zeroing in On the Issue
- Replies: 11
- Views: 27498
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:28 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: The subjunctive mood in English - once more with feeling
- Replies: 37
- Views: 94979
- Fri Dec 09, 2005 2:25 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Torturing the English language
- Replies: 62
- Views: 134362
Torturing the English language
This is the first time I've agreed with George Bush, and it may well be the last. The first two things are not torture, and the third may or may not be. Torture is (according to the Oxford English dictionary) 'the infliction of excruciating pain'. It's fun to play with language to enforce your views...
- Sat Dec 03, 2005 9:00 am
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Names of Dacian Kings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 53767
Names of Dacian plants
When I posted those Dacian plant names (at http://perso.wanadoo.fr/dalby/extra/DacianPlants.html with a message here, as a long term reply to Brian Costello's post about Dacian kings) I had already got English equivalents for all but two of the plants. The remaining two had been identified by a Germ...
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: ORPHAN
- Replies: 4
- Views: 9262
- Fri Dec 02, 2005 9:18 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNUCK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10545
- Thu Dec 01, 2005 9:52 am
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: SNUCK
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10545
- Tue Nov 29, 2005 8:59 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: More from the Language of Advertisers
- Replies: 41
- Views: 98420
- Mon Nov 28, 2005 11:10 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: How does your brain learn languages?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 106212
Sorry to have taken so long to reply. I was trying to remember what guides to Thai script I had used myself -- now that I come to calculate, it wasn't a few years ago but 22 years ago -- and, naturally enough, I can't remember. It wasn't the Web, anyway! But I just fed thai script learn into Google ...
- Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:15 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: More from the Language of Advertisers
- Replies: 41
- Views: 98420
- Sun Nov 27, 2005 12:12 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Chinese restaurant syndrome
- Replies: 8
- Views: 19725
There's a history of monosodium glutamate, by Jordan Sand, in the current issue of Gastronomica: see www. gastronomica.org It seems from this article that if you use Umami to mean 'the fifth flavour' (as I have done in the past) you are using a trade name -- and this is exactly what the manufacturer...
- Sat Nov 26, 2005 9:11 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: More from the Language of Advertisers
- Replies: 41
- Views: 98420
Stargzer, in preferring good American green beans to showy French haricots verts you have Ernest Hemingway on your side. Americans in Paris, in Hemingway's /The Sun Also Rises/ (British title /Fiesta/), enjoy a restaurant meal including green beans -- not a word about haricots, whether verts or any ...
- Fri Nov 25, 2005 9:35 am
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Names of Dacian Kings
- Replies: 19
- Views: 53767
Names of Dacian kings
Those names of Dacian kings have a syllable structure reminiscent of some of the other Dacian words that are recorded in ancient sources. OK, not surprising, but it helps to show they are genuine Dacian. Most of the others are names for edible and medicinal plants. They are recorded by the Greek pha...
- Fri Nov 25, 2005 8:54 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: How does your brain learn languages?
- Replies: 56
- Views: 106212
I wonder how difficult it would be to learn to write Thai... I did it, a few years ago now. I already knew Sanskrit script, which made it easier because the two work on the same principle and Sanskrit (devanagari) is more logical, but you can manage it without! I would say a few days of very hard w...