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- Fri Jan 02, 2009 8:48 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Does anyone know the Russian word for kadigan (or cadigan)?
- Replies: 12
- Views: 18078
- Thu Oct 23, 2008 6:28 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Economic crisis
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6836
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 11:47 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Are Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew the Same Language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13884
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:43 am
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Misspelled Signs
- Replies: 7
- Views: 21505
Re: Misspelled Signs
Occupational disease. Also affects translators.after almost 10 years as a paid proofreader, I find spelling errors everywhere I go.
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 9:23 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Are Biblical Hebrew and Modern Hebrew the Same Language?
- Replies: 6
- Views: 13884
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...
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:46 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: The Piraha (last vowel nasalized)
- Replies: 5
- Views: 10527
For debunking of lots of stupid Pirahã claims, I recommend searching http://itre.cis.upenn.edu/~myl/languagelog/.
- Wed Aug 01, 2007 8:40 am
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: Lucifer and Lucid are cognates
- Replies: 12
- Views: 25754
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...
- Wed Apr 18, 2007 5:52 pm
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Odd construction
- Replies: 13
- Views: 23629
Re: I thought her pretty.
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...
- Sun Mar 11, 2007 6:58 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Latin Mottos
- Replies: 4
- Views: 11734
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.
Although I'm familiar with lots of mono-, bi- and polycyclic compounds, I had to use the Internet to find your bicycle: birota.
- Sat Sep 02, 2006 3:46 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 137408
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 ...
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:31 pm
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Spell Checker???
- Replies: 25
- Views: 60207
Re: My sister swares by this place for tarot and spells
We were discussing spell checking, not spell promoting.Let me know if anyone else knows of other places that "REALLY" work for spells and tarot readings?
- Fri Sep 01, 2006 3:27 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 137408
Re: On the subject...
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...
- Tue Aug 29, 2006 9:39 am
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Lost and Found
- Replies: 4
- Views: 6680
- Tue Aug 15, 2006 11:18 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 137408
Re: On the subject...
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 ...