LINGUIST List 4.559

Thu 15 Jul 1993

Qs: Russian, Nanjing, Passives, Judgements, Japanese Kana

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1. Kevin Flynn, Russian Hyphenation
2. , e-mail at Nanjing?
3. "Barbara.Abbott", 4.550 Qs: Passives -- clarification
4. Zoann Branstine, Judgements Wanted
5. Pamela A Downing, Japanese software

According to the United States Goverment Printing Office Style Manual, March
1984, under rules for Russian Syllabification (pg 438), consonantal units
may not be divided.

They list the following consonantal units: (KOI-7 transliteration)
bl, br ml
wl, wr pl, pr
gl, gr sk, skw, skr, st, stw, str
vd tw, tr
kl, kr fl, fr
dw, dr

Should the following also be considered non-seperable consonantal units
for the purpose of hyphenation:

s~, {k, sl, spl, twl, stwl, hl, {l, spr
mr, zr, {r, hr, ~r, {t, ~t, sw, kv, gv, hv

Thanks,
Kevin Flynn

I will be spending September through January at Nanjing University in
Nanjing, China, teaching linguistics to college teachers of English.
Does anyone know where I can get access to internet/bitnet while there?
If you know someone who can help me with this, please let me know
at my personal address:
JAKLEIFGENCUTCV2.BITNET
JAKLEIFGENCUTCV2.TC.COLUMBIA.EDU
Thanks, Jo Anne Kleifgen

Oops! I recently posted a request for a reference on the claim that
passives are more frequent than actives. I should have said LESS
frequent! (Must have been the heat...)

The following scale appears on a service follow-up survey sent out by Honda:

Completely satisfied - Somewhat dissatisfied - somewhat satisfied - Delighted

For me, "somewhat satisfied" is worse than "somewhat DISsatisfied".

However, switching the order of the two also produces an odd scale, since it
mixes "satisfied"s with "dissatisfied"s.

This was just an observation, though before I write to Honda to suggest they
change their questionnaire it might be nice to know I'm not the only person
who finds it strange.

Zoann

I need to include some Japanese text (both kana and kanji) in a camera-ready
manuscript I am preparing. Does anybody have any suggestions for any
kana/kanji software I can use with a PC (with Windows) and an HP laserjet
printer? I'd prefer something that's also compatible with Word Perfect for
Windows. Thanks.

 Pamela Downing
 downingconvex.csd.uwm.edu