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I thought that it might be useful to have a sticky collating questions regarding alphabets, punctuation & pronunciation and the like. I have put it in the English to Latin translation forum to start with, as these questions are often asked here, but we...
Started by Cinefactus on
, 11 posts
by 5 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at latindiscussion):
You should remember....
Studying third year Latin part church pronounces them.
Sidney Allen covers the names of the letters used in the Latin alphabet.
Vox Latina by W.
This thread discusses the pronunciation of the letters themselves.
Textbook).
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Ulysses by James Joyce (1882-1941)
Quote: : Note: This is version 2 of Ulysses for LibriVox. The first version was highly experimental; this one will be a 'straight' reading except for the "Circe" episode , which is to be recorded as a play with a full...
Started by Gesine on
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by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at librivox):
Please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd like to appear in the LibriVox catalogue Benvolio Montague or my real....
Please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd carefully.
Read the first post of this thread carefully.
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The Dream of the Red Chamber, Book I by Xuequin Cao (1717 - 1763) . Translated by Henry Bencraft Joly (1857 - 1898).
Quote: : This is one of the books considered the "Four Great Chinese Novels".
The novel provides a detailed, episodic record of the two...
Started by Availle on
, 15 posts
by 4 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at librivox):
This text is VERY HEAVY with Chinese names and words, so unless you speak Chinese (Mandarin), please wait....
With the way names are translated in the book?
Here's the list for the pronunciation guide I have nowOkay, project is up...
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Ulysses by James Joyce (1882-1941)
Quote: : Note: This is version 2 of Ulysses for LibriVox. The first version was highly experimental; this one will be a 'straight' reading except for the "Circe" episode , which is to be recorded as a play with a full...
Started by Gesine on
, 15 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at librivox):
Please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd like to appear in the LibriVox catalogue Benvolio Montague or my real....
Please let me know under which name or pseudonym you'd carefully.
Read the first post of this thread carefully.
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On Thu, 19 Feb 2009 23:10:07 +0100, "Arne H. Wilstrup" <ahw
American to Englishman: Say, what's your job? Englishman: I'm a clerk.
American (astonished): You mean you go 'tick-tock, tick-tock-?
The above conversation seems to show one of the differences...
Started by Arne H. Wilstrup on
, 46 posts
by 24 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
For
now, avoid literature Standard Danish and Standard....
Differences large
enough to seriously impede to you if you
tell them exactly what kind of literature you are interested in.
And
even less as far as pronunciation is concerned.
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Putting new twists on old/common names: Girls Edition? This is for expecting parents looking for unique names, or just names that aren't too terribly common yet! For the most part, I took fairly plain/common names and added a twist or found a more unique...
Started by Emily Day on
, 10 posts
by 10 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at yahoo):
I think it's beautiful!
Victory and instead of Amberly....
Marisol: I've seen this name used in classic literature before.
Just because names were used in a book, doesn't mean they should be used Markie.
To have them as a name.
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On Sun, 25 Jan 2009 21:39:32 -0800, "Mike Schilling" <mscottschilling@hotmail.com
So I'm reading Cherryh's _Regenesis_ , and am pretty much caught up in
it. It's starting to have the paranoid vibe that made _Cyteen_ so
memorable, with everyone...
Started by Mike Schilling on
, 165 posts
by 53 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Be with a
name with more syllables.<g>
:: In particular, all of the "farmers" have names, but the pronunciation is
close enough to Montana that the two names are hard to distinguish
And if it was INTENTIONAL? I....
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I have a question about the pronunciation of the SQL word. In my native language (French) we used to say it like spell each letters.
I've been listening to the stackoverflow podcast today. And I noticed the usage of the word sequel to describe SQL .
My...
Started by Pascal Paradis on
, 24 posts
by 23 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at stackoverflow):
According to Wikipedia , going letter by letter is the "official" pronunciation (though I hear Sparks points out, you learn it as S-Q-L, and that's the pronunciation in most countries like there to be one right answer and we like to do things....
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I would like to write a program that allows us to scan the English language for properties that words have in common with each other, such as various phonemes and spelling patterns. I believe that this will aid our understanding of not only English as...
Started by Scott H on
, 20 posts
by 6 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at rationalskepticism):
Let's say I'm half of one I studied Comparative Literature I studied Comparative Literature....
You do know chance? I desperately need to know one .
And what is especially quick to change is the pronunciation you set such great store by.
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On Sat, 29 Aug 2009 06:25:22 -0700 (PDT), Nisse <nilsbengtsson2003@yahoo.se
In Arabic, the pronunciation of a fully marked word (with harakat,
shaddah, etc) is unambiguous. Is there an equivalent way in Farsi to
get an unambiguous representation...
Started by Nisse on
, 11 posts
by 3 people.
Answer Snippets (Read the full thread at omgili):
Lt;nilsbengtsson2003@yahoo.se: In Arabic, the pronunciation of a fully marked word (with harakat representation of the pronunciation? As Farsi has
: more vowels than Arabic, simply using the Arabic system (called va:v in persian; it is....
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