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- Fri Aug 11, 2006 2:58 am
- Forum: Etymology
- Topic: I don't want to look stupid, but irregardless I want to know
- Replies: 135
- Views: 2043571
- Thu Aug 10, 2006 12:16 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 281645
One oddity from Japanese cursive tradition is 々. This is not a character because it has no independent sound value or meaning. This is more like a symbol, which indicates the kanji immediately before it is repeated. It's also used in Chinese, if I'm not wrong. BTW, hwo do you form it on your keyboa...
- Wed Aug 09, 2006 4:37 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Cursive vs Print
- Replies: 59
- Views: 281645
Japanese uses three types of writing, according to Wikipedia : The Japanese language is written with a combination of three different types of glyphs: Chinese characters (called kanji ), and two syllabic scripts, hiragana and katakana . The Latin alphabet (called rōmaji ) is also often used in mode...
- Fri Aug 04, 2006 9:47 pm
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Purifying Persian
- Replies: 56
- Views: 245997
- Thu Jul 27, 2006 1:13 pm
- Forum: Res Diversae
- Topic: Chaos
- Replies: 43
- Views: 79816
- Mon Jun 19, 2006 12:28 pm
- Forum: Good Word Discussion
- Topic: STEVEDORE
- Replies: 15
- Views: 34367
Re: STEVEDORE
. . . . (Today's Good Word comes from someone in a town with quite a few stevedores, Peter Melville or Rotterdam. Dutch borrowed stuwadoor and the verb stuwen "to push, stow" from French just as English borrowed today's Good Word.) For the record, Today's Good Word comes from Riutaro Aida...
- Thu Jun 01, 2006 10:06 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: pathetic fallacy
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15295
- Thu Jun 01, 2006 2:27 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: hyponoia
- Replies: 6
- Views: 16970
- Thu Jun 01, 2006 1:28 am
- Forum: Spelling
- Topic: Punctuation
- Replies: 15
- Views: 77075
- Wed May 31, 2006 7:40 pm
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Blackguard
- Replies: 7
- Views: 15969
- Wed May 31, 2006 2:45 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: Learning languages - verbal vs. written
- Replies: 12
- Views: 37870
Anyway, I'd be interested to hear someone's ideas on this. Perhaps it's a little like learning Chinese, in which I understand that the written language bears no relation to the spoken sound. As many characters have a component that represents sound, the written and spoken Chinese are not completely...
- Tue May 30, 2006 1:23 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: ¿Concordancia en plural?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 133621
How about EditPad Lite then? This is free for non-commercial use. Get it from here. Converting upper to lower case is possible with the following scheme on menu bar:
Convert > Invert Case.
I am always amazed at how many good softwares are provided for free or virtually free.
Convert > Invert Case.
I am always amazed at how many good softwares are provided for free or virtually free.
- Tue May 30, 2006 12:01 am
- Forum: Languages of the World
- Topic: ¿Concordancia en plural?
- Replies: 45
- Views: 133621
Karen, you don't need to pay in order to use TextPad. TextPad has a trial period of 30 days, during which users are free to use the software without any limitations. After the trial period elapses, TextPad urges the unregistered users to pay I-no-longer-remember-how-much amount of money by occasiona...
- Mon May 29, 2006 5:36 am
- Forum: Grammar
- Topic: Ending Sentences with Prepositions
- Replies: 34
- Views: 96412
Re: FINAL PREOPSITIONS
SPEAKING CORRECTLY ONLY SEEMS AWKWARD WHEN WE HAVE TO UNLEARN IMPROPER USAGE. ONCE WE LEARN AND IT IS MORE AUTOMATIC IS MAKES ENGLISH MORE BEAUTIFUL... If this view of yours holds true for the written language, could you consider posting with more minuscules? I understand you would like to write yo...
- Sat May 27, 2006 5:01 am
- Forum: Good Word Suggestions
- Topic: Aceldama
- Replies: 1
- Views: 7250
See herefor the etymology.