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What is the plural of "corps"?
Hebrew text is read right to left. Why? I don't know. Paragon12321 01:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Arabic and many other ancient languages are written that way as well. - THB 02:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Why is English read left to right? In antiquity it was more ad lib. — see boustrophedon. Wareh 03:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't think it's fair to say that being right-handed is an advantage for English-like languages. You could just write up side down. martianlostinspace 17:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to refresh my Spanish skills with a Pimsleur language learning tape. I think the people on the tape are native (Latin American) speakers, but there are a few things that seem wrong to me based on my experience with Spanish. (I lived in Venezuela for two years.) Here are some examples. I hope you can tell me what is correct, or what sounds more "native".
I'm working on a neural network to classify natural languages, and for training I need large samples in various different languages. Is there anywhere I can freely ( as in beer and as in speech) get samples of different languages - the more the merrier, but at least, say, 10? Samples would preferably be long enough to be representative of the language - thousands or tens of thousands of words each or longer. ASCII is obviously insufficient for most languages, so unicode is preferred. Thanks, LWizard @ 04:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
lynx -dump '
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Main_Page&printable=yes' > dumped_page.txt
to save HTML to text.
How is the Norwegian name Trygve Lie (the first Secretary General of the United Nations) pronounced?
Is the last name a long "i" sound (as in a falsehood), or is it like "lee", or is it "lee-eh", or something else?
What are the vowel sounds in the first name? One or two syllables, and which gets emphasis?
As topic tittle 59.149.91.57 13:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Though I'm not familiar with IPA, I think the Late Latin would be /'ɛktse 'homo/. The current version at Ecce Homo has an Italian-influenced version as first. Thoughts? -- Brand спойт 15:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
How do you quote and cite an author when you're listening to an audio format of a book instead of reading it. Is there an MLA format for that? Am I going to have to buy the book to be able to quote him appropriately in an essay?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/10/ try this page. You can cite it for sure without buying or picking up a copy of the book. 152.3.73.203 21:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Laura Palmer and I do my second to last year of schooling with the New Zealand Correspondence School. For English we have to get resources for research on a topic. My topic is on an area where language has changed and am doing it on changes in gender issues in language..I was just wondering if you could please give me any helpful information on this or any links to sites and books etc where useful information could be found.
Thank you for your time, Laura Palmer
ps could you please email me on (email removed) with your reply
I can't email you, but maybe you could look at Gender-neutral language in English for one possible topic. I found that by going to language and looking at the see also list at the bottom. As for finding sources, first pick a topic, then check online for scholarly articles or make your way to a public university for some literature. By the way, I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a primary source for anything serious, but as a means to sources or for topic hunting, it's a decent portal. 152.3.73.203 21:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
What is the term for a word in curent usage which is inherently arachronistic? eg dialing a phone number on a touch tone phone. -- AHI 20:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I am sure this isn't what you are looking for but "anachronism"? 152.3.73.203 21:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
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What is the plural of "corps"?
Hebrew text is read right to left. Why? I don't know. Paragon12321 01:48, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Arabic and many other ancient languages are written that way as well. - THB 02:25, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Why is English read left to right? In antiquity it was more ad lib. — see boustrophedon. Wareh 03:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I don't think it's fair to say that being right-handed is an advantage for English-like languages. You could just write up side down. martianlostinspace 17:53, 22 November 2006 (UTC)
I've been trying to refresh my Spanish skills with a Pimsleur language learning tape. I think the people on the tape are native (Latin American) speakers, but there are a few things that seem wrong to me based on my experience with Spanish. (I lived in Venezuela for two years.) Here are some examples. I hope you can tell me what is correct, or what sounds more "native".
I'm working on a neural network to classify natural languages, and for training I need large samples in various different languages. Is there anywhere I can freely ( as in beer and as in speech) get samples of different languages - the more the merrier, but at least, say, 10? Samples would preferably be long enough to be representative of the language - thousands or tens of thousands of words each or longer. ASCII is obviously insufficient for most languages, so unicode is preferred. Thanks, LWizard @ 04:35, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
lynx -dump '
http://en.wikipedia.org/?title=Main_Page&printable=yes' > dumped_page.txt
to save HTML to text.
How is the Norwegian name Trygve Lie (the first Secretary General of the United Nations) pronounced?
Is the last name a long "i" sound (as in a falsehood), or is it like "lee", or is it "lee-eh", or something else?
What are the vowel sounds in the first name? One or two syllables, and which gets emphasis?
As topic tittle 59.149.91.57 13:59, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Though I'm not familiar with IPA, I think the Late Latin would be /'ɛktse 'homo/. The current version at Ecce Homo has an Italian-influenced version as first. Thoughts? -- Brand спойт 15:28, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
How do you quote and cite an author when you're listening to an audio format of a book instead of reading it. Is there an MLA format for that? Am I going to have to buy the book to be able to quote him appropriately in an essay?
http://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/resource/557/10/ try this page. You can cite it for sure without buying or picking up a copy of the book. 152.3.73.203 21:33, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
Hello, My name is Laura Palmer and I do my second to last year of schooling with the New Zealand Correspondence School. For English we have to get resources for research on a topic. My topic is on an area where language has changed and am doing it on changes in gender issues in language..I was just wondering if you could please give me any helpful information on this or any links to sites and books etc where useful information could be found.
Thank you for your time, Laura Palmer
ps could you please email me on (email removed) with your reply
I can't email you, but maybe you could look at Gender-neutral language in English for one possible topic. I found that by going to language and looking at the see also list at the bottom. As for finding sources, first pick a topic, then check online for scholarly articles or make your way to a public university for some literature. By the way, I wouldn't use Wikipedia as a primary source for anything serious, but as a means to sources or for topic hunting, it's a decent portal. 152.3.73.203 21:26, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
What is the term for a word in curent usage which is inherently arachronistic? eg dialing a phone number on a touch tone phone. -- AHI 20:08, 20 November 2006 (UTC)
I am sure this isn't what you are looking for but "anachronism"? 152.3.73.203 21:29, 20 November 2006 (UTC)