Collins Russian Gem Dictionary suggests вязаная жакетка, which I slightly doubt. Going via Swedish kofta, which clearly is a cardigan, I think кофта will work.

Alfred E. Smith IV, great-grandson of Alfred E. Smith

That quote could have come from Alred E. Neuman.

My university Bible Hebrew (BH) teacher (who also taught the modern Hebrew language of Palestine) was rather pessimistic on today's speakers' of modern Hebrew regarding their understanding the old language.

Is that a political statement, or just a slip?

Probably.

after almost 10 years as a paid proofreader, I find spelling errors everywhere I go.

Occupational disease. Also affects translators.

I would say that the comprehensibility is very good for the Modern Hebrew speaker reading or hearing the Classical Hebrew of the Bible. My university Bible Hebrew (BH) teacher (who also taught the modern Hebrew language of Palestine) was rather pessimistic on today's speakers' of modern Hebrew rega...

For debunking of lots of stupid Pirahã claims, I recommend searching http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/.

sluggo, you can strike quite a conflagration if you reference the NAB or NIV "How you have fallen from heaven, O morning star, son of the dawn!" instead of the KJV "How art thou fallen from heaven, O Lucifer, son of the morning!" in just the right circles. One man's semantics are another man's here...

In the sentence "I asked her to do it," her is the direct object of asked and the subject of do it at the same time. In languages with real case systems, this is impossible. May I offer a different interpretation: An infinitive (to do) doesn't have a subject. In the sentence, "to do it" is a second...

Beer is cerevisia. Easy for a biochemist - the yeast used is Saccharomyces cerevisiae.

Although I'm familiar with lots of mono-, bi- and polycyclic compounds, I had to use the Internet to find your bicycle: birota.

One index, two indices?

Yes.

I was using "running hand" in a generic sense, instead of "handwriting" -- because we write block letters by hand as well. Anyhow, I thought of the kaithi script, and for a perhaps better known and certainly more widely used today, the Gujarati script (link near the bottom of that page). Not having ...

Let me know if anyone else knows of other places that "REALLY" work for spells and tarot readings?

We were discussing spell checking, not spell promoting.

When I have been to the museum, I have noticed that Sanskrit and Arabic alphabets have many styles. Several of them seem to have a block form and then a cursive form. Am I correct is assuming some forms of these are cursive? Also, I have seem writing from Tibet that has several styles some very cur...

I think IT people call it migration, in at least one of the cases mentioned. It has happened before in history.

anders, It looks more devanagari than ranjana to me. Yes, but I wrote "influenced". I think I can recognize some of the letters, especially when I turn it over. I printed and turned, it and yes. What puzzled me besides that right-leaning flourish was a letter that I think is a ya य; it occurs with ...