How to Pick a Language
http://web.mac.com/jimbokun/iWeb/Site/Blog/AB35C167-7755-4113-938C-968F65256D76.html

Interesting article about how to pick a language

computer programming langugage

(Yet another) new programming language, aiming to be clean and explore ideas related to mixins. JIT-based (for x86, x86_64), should integrate well with C. Based on Lua VM.

Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language.

Programming language by _why, very cool stuff.

Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language.

"a little fast language"

Potion is an object- and mixin-oriented (traits) language. By why?

so that's what why_ has been up to. writing a new language.

o.O

Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields

How could bees of little brain come up with anything as complex as a dance language? The answer could lie not in biology but in six-dimensional math and the bizarre world of quantum mechanics.

Honeybees are found to interact with Quantum fields. wild. must read later.

Correção Ortografica

O Ortografa! nasceu de uma súbita ideia quando o Acordo Ortográfico da Língua Portuguesa começou a ser adotado no início de 2009. A funcionalidade é simples: digite sua frase no campo acima que o sistema procurará trocar as palavras para a ortografia correta.

Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and

Through the ages a lot of interesting (and some obscure) programming languages have entertained and confused people. At JAOO Aarhus 2008 Guy L. Steele and Richard P. Gabriel gave a presentation about languages and language constructs in a presentation that is a work of art in itself.

TOO.FUNNY.

Compiler hackers are celebrities in the world of computer science. I've seen Anders Hejlsberg deliver a presentation at the Professional Developers Conference and then walk off stage to a herd of men and women asking him to sign books and pose for photographs. There's a certain intellectual mystique about individuals who dedicate their time to learning and understanding the ins and outs of lambda expressions, type systems, and assembly languages. Now, you too can share some of this glory by writing your own compiler for the Microsoft® .NET Framework.

By He Jibo @ UIUC

every expletive from the entire series

27 minutes of expletives

27 mins of solid swearing. 2mins was enough for me.

Fast human translation of your tweets directly from your twitter account by sending RM (Reply message) to @twitrans with the source and target languages and the message to translate. Text will be translated by freelance translators around the world, translation service 24/7 in all major languages

nice overview of programming languages

As I do my professional and personal work, I am always looking for the best tool for the job. In software development, there are several programming languages that can be used for a wide variety of reasons. I am often asked by people new to software development what is the best language to learn. They get confused when I ask them what they plan on doing. The reason is that people think there is going to be a best language for everything. However, everyone knows that there is no silver bullet. On the other hand, there are some languages which are better suited or more widely used in specific areas. So, given that idea, I came up with a list.

'Come to Beavis Meeting'? Hilarious.

Hilarious/scary (via Steve Portigal)

Site que ajuda a estudar as novas regras do Acordo Ortográfico.

Digite seu texto na caixa ao lado e aperte o botão Enviar. O verificador ortográfico do UmPortugues.com marcará as palavras que estiverem incorretas segundo a nova grafia. Experimente!

Site com correção para as novas regras do Português.

'Oldest English words' identified

Some of the oldest words in English have been identified, scientists say.

Some of the oldest words in the English and other Indo-European languages have been identified, scientists believe.Reading University researchers say "I", "we", "two" and "three" are among the oldest in use and date back as much as 40,000 years.

UNESCO Interactive Atlas of the World's Languages in Danger

Google Mapで、「消滅の危機にある言語」の使用地域が見られるページ （UNESCO website）

"When a Hellenophone has trouble understanding something, his or her preferred languages of reference, as far as incomprehension is concerned, are Arabic and Chinese. And while for Arabs the proverbial unintelligible language is Hindi, for Chinese it’s the language of Heaven."

Make your own Inauguration Speech. Is it too easy?

In case you fancy writing your own inauguration speech...!

OGDL is a structured textual format that represents information in the form of graphs, where the nodes are strings and the arcs or edges are spaces or indentation.

『オーディオプログラミング言語 ChucK を使って組んでみたサンプルプログラムの映像。』 すごい。リアルタイムにコードを変更して演奏に反映できてる。

コードで書く音楽。のサンプル動画。

この文章は、下記のような人が読むと参考になると思います。 * 効率よく英語学習したい人 * 学校の勉強では英語は苦手だったけど英語出来るようになりたいと思ってる人 * スクールに通ってはみたものの今ひとつ身に付かなかった人 * これまで何回も英語にチャレンジしてきてるけどいつも挫折してしまう人

英語初心者のための英語学習方法まとめ。楽しく長く続けることを歌っている

reak

A poem demonstrating the many variant forms in English.

Pronunciation

A poem of tricky words that highlight exactly how daunting English is to the non-native speaker. This shit is crazy.

8 Racist Words You Use Every Day. Happy MLK day! You're a racist!

Have you ever worried that, no matter how hard you try, you'll just never be racist enough? Well, you're in luck. As it turns out, you've been unconsciously using racial slurs your entire life! Slurs like...

How did I not link to this before?

he reads a book and swears. great

What Obama should really say to his opponents; mp3 clips from his book; impersonations; slang dialogue; Obama's range of intonations and personae

dang, obama cussing!!

In his bestselling autobiography, Dreams From My Father, President Obama introduces us to his high school friend, “Ray,” who, like him, is bi-racial. Who, also like him, is casting about to find his place in the world. But, who, unlike him, has a potty mouth that would make a sailor blush. Best of all? When reading the audiobook version of his bio, Obama does impressions of Ray’s manner of speech. Swear words and all. It’s fucking awesome. And it’s a way of talking we probably won’t be hearing from him now that he’s POTUS.

goodness, this could be fun for new ringtones. (I'm sure everyone in my office is sick of The Avalanches by now.)

ah....the noble fourth estate!

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Ask the residents of Titty Ho, North Piddle, Spanker Lane or Penistone.

Gödel mistrusted our ability to communicate. Natural language, he thought, was imprecise, and we usually don't understand each other. Gödel wanted to prove a mathematical theorem that would have all the precision of mathematics—the only language with any claims to precision—but with the sweep of philosophy. He wanted a mathematical theorem that would speak to the issues of meta-mathematics. And two extraordinary things happened. One is that he actually did produce such a theorem. The other is that it was interpreted by the jazzier parts of the intellectual culture as saying, philosophically exactly the opposite of what he had been intending to say with it.

goel and the nature of mathematical truth

red

I came across this list of “colorful” words while looking up adjectives. The list seems to go on forever with words like “primrose” and “xanthic” and their definitions.

"This list contains 168 definitions of obscure colour terms using combinations of 'normal' colours of the rainbow and descriptive adjectives; e.g. cardinal = deep scarlet red; russet = reddish brown. Note that most English speakers outside the U.S. spell colour with the added British 'u' rather than the American version color. Don't worry if the colours (or colors) in your universe don't match up with the definitions I've given for these words, though - I've been known to have skewed perceptions of reality ..."

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http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/uk_news/magazine/7907888.stm slowdeathofhandwriting handwritinghandwriting

the art of handwriting is declining so fast that ordinary, joined-up script may become as hard to read as a medieval manuscript.

SundayMorning is a jQuery plugin which allow site-owners to offer their visitors a easy and fancy way to translate their contents.

contentment

英語コンプレックス

英語が分かるようになれたらいいな

Awesome japanese/english dictionary

maiasa binbin

Welcome to Nihongodict, a free online English ⇆ Japanese dictionary. To get started, type a word in English or Japanese (any script, including romaji) in the box above.

<blockquote>...the true accidental brilliance of Java is that it has created a very smooth path for its own replacements, even if Java itself has reached the point where it can no longer evolve.</blockquote>

In a recent discussion, there were assertions that C++ was a poorly-designed language. I was on the C++ Standards Committee for 8 years, and saw the decisions take place. I think it's helpful to understand the language choices for both C++ and Java in order to see the bigger perspective.

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interactive vocabulary-creates a sketch of the word

vocabulary words using cartoon

via @kristinbutler

It used to be that when I saw Russian words like this-- компью́тер, студе́нт, па́спорт-- my eyes skipped over them like yours probably just did. But the Cyrillic alphabet, which is used in Slavic languages like Russian as well as non-Slavic languages like Kazakh and Mongolian, is easy to learn. Given the number of English cognates in Russian (the language we'll focus on here), learning the Cyrillic alphabet allows you to read and understand dozens of words in Russian, including the three above (computer, student, and passport, respectively).

Chet

This is hilarious. I immediately tried to figure out the best ways to describe them to someone, because that's what I do.

These email addresses made me laugh

Funny.

miscellaneous vocabularies explained in nytimes context

"Each day, Schott's Vocab explores news sites around the world to find words and phrases that encapsulate the times in which we live or shed light on a story of note."

more schott on ny times

Open Culture has a comprehensive list of totally free resources for anyone looking to learn a language though audio files. Whether you're brushing up your Yiddish or delving into Dutch, you'll find a free feed here.

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LiteType.com is a Free Online Virtual Multilingual

Type and Search in your language with LiteType.com

Type and Search in your language with Free Online Multilingual Virtual Keyboard - LiteType.com

tastiere virtuali per scrivere e tradurre in tutte le lingue del mondo

คีย์บอร์ดเสมือนทุกภาษาในโลก

Bonnie Bassler discovered that bacteria "talk" to each other, using a chemical language that lets them coordinate defense and mount attacks. The find has stunning implications for medicine, industry -- and our understanding of ourselves.

bacteria communicate with each other and can tell self from other

criticism of 'The Element of Style'

Eloquent rant against Strunk & White.

'The Elements of Style does not deserve the enormous esteem in which it is held by American college graduates. Its advice ranges from limp platitudes to inconsistent nonsense. Its enormous influence has not improved American students' grasp of English grammar; it has significantly degraded it.'

HA! On the other hand I would strongly recommend reading a book whose style is intentionally derived from this one: 'The Elements of Programming Style' by Kernighan and Plauger. Yes, *that* B.Kernighan.

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A Disciplined Way To Deal With Email

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thoughts on graphic design, creativity and beauty

"...Twitter is a note-taking technology, end of story. You take short-form notes with it, limited to 140 characters. [...] If I attend a public lecture but I start to jot things down in a Moleskine, it would seem that only a particularly virulent form of social fascism would ask me to put that notebook down and begin 'sharing ideas' with the people next to me. No thanks – I'd rather write, actually. [...] there seem to be quite a lot of assumptions at work [when people object to microblogging], with so many class, political, and even gender implications for who is allowed to speak, who we are meant to listen to, who can write, how they are permitted to do so, in what social contexts writing is meant to occur, and what topics can be legitimately addressed by others, that I'd hope a much longer discussion about this might someday take place."

"What very much bothers me about this attitude toward Twitter is something else: if you were to go around the United States reading the handwritten diaries of, say, high-school girls or adolescent boys or even well-read college students, you would find equally inane chattering: "I feel fat today." "Can't wait for summer in Boca! But I need new shorts." "My history professor is HOT." "I hate holidays. Christmas at home is so boring." Are you really going to tell me that the average contemporary, hand-written diary is any more interesting than that?...I fail to see any clear distinction between someone's boring Twitter feed – considered only semi-literate and very much bad – and someone else's equally boring, paper-based diary – considered both pro-humanist and unquestionably good. Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would have Virgil, and so would have Sappho. It's a tool for writing. Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed."

Kafka would have had a Twitter feed! And so would have Hemingway, and so would have Virgil, and so would have Sappho. It's a tool for writing. Heraclitus would have had a f***ing Twitter feed.

With the caveat that this post doesn't have much to do with architecture, but with the further caveat that I will be speaking about media – specifically online media – next week at the Australian National Architecture Conference, I thought I'd offer a few thoughts here about Twitter.

It seems "Twitter" is code for "Please tell me how you think Twitter is stupid and useless." This article begs to differ.

To see.

Home - accalia, smart.fm is a free site for learning powered by personalized learning applications.

elearning, open ID, integration with twitter, etc.

Japanese learning Tool

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the best name generator. period.

Combine names

Have you ever blurted out, "Wow, that guy is just so...so..." and then were left floundering with nothing to say? Well, it's not always your fault. English doesn't have words for every situation, or even the ones that happen every damned day. Fortunately, other languages usually do. And since we already borrow words from them (just recently we've taken "schadenfreude," the German word for pleasure in someone else's misfortune) here's a few that we need to pick up right away.

LangId is a free web service that allows you to identify in which language was written any text you need to analyze.

Langage Translator

“Programming Language for Old Timers (PLOT) is a new dialect of Lisp designed by Dave Moon in February 2006, and thoroughly revised and simplified November 2007 and March 2008. I have been developing PLOT as a hobby, with the idea of for once having a programming language which does everything the right way. You know it is right when both simplicity and power are maximized, while at the same time confusion and the need for kludges are minimized.”

A LISP-style programming language by David A. Moon.

Notable features: - structural macros

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Svenska Akademiens ordlista (SAOL) visar hur ord stavas och böjs – och ibland hur de uttalas och vad de betyder.

a visual map and thesaurus

How does Vocabgrabber work? VocabGrabber analyzes any text you're interested in, generating lists of the most useful vocabulary words and showing you how those words are used in context. Just copy text from a document and paste it into the box, and then click on the "Grab Vocabulary!" button. VocabGrabber will automatically create a list of vocabulary from your text, which you can then sort, filter, and save. Select any word on the list and you'll see a snapshot of the Visual Thesaurus map and definitions for that word, along with examples of the word in your text. Click on the word map or the highlighted word in the example to see the Visual Thesaurus in action. Want to try it out? Click on one of our sample texts to fill the box and start grabbing! How can I view my vocabulary list? After you grab the vocabulary from a text, you will see a list of words and phrases in "tag cloud" view. In the default view, words in the vocab list are arranged by relevance (more on that below!). In t

English - Writing

Quick mini lessons, quizzes, and games about different writing resources.

English writing interactive activities for: Argument, Comment, Factual writing instructions, Factual writing leaflets, Factual writing letters, Writing a story beginnings and endings, Writing a story planning. Also includes Revision and Quizzes

Writing a Story/Planning

holy shit

Information about artifical itelligence

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Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability, and developer productivity. Other advanced concepts we are exploring are data flow networks, asynchronous methods, and type annotations for taming side-effects.

Axum is a language that builds upon the architecture of the Web and principles of isolation, actors, and message-passing to increase application safety, responsiveness, scalability and developer productivity.\

This page is about the Nimrod programming language, which combines Lisp's power with Python's readability and C's performance.

Nimrod Programming Language - efficient, expressive, elegant, statically typed, imperative, procedural, object-oriented, functional and generic

Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional and generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree (AST) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which allows domain specific languages. Nimrod is a compiled, garbage-collected systems programming language which has an excellent productivity/performance ratio. Nimrod's design focuses on the 3E: efficiency, expressiveness, elegance (in the order of priority)...

Nimrod is a new statically typed, imperative programming language, that supports procedural, object oriented, functional and generic programming styles while remaining simple and efficient. A special feature that Nimrod inherited from Lisp is that Nimrod's abstract syntax tree (AST) is part of the specification - this allows a powerful macro system which allows domain specific languages.

>> And the press are already struggling enough - God knows they've already lost their grip on news to some extent. If they lose their grip on comment and gossip and being a free PR machine as well, they're really in trouble. <<

Stephen Fry speaks to BBC Radio 4's Analysis about why he believes the web is such a wondrous thing.

As is usually the case with Our Lord Stephen Fry - ne'er was a truer word spoke about that place we spend our days and nights - the internet

Stephen Fry on living with the internet, and enjoying it.

Stephen Fry - wit, writer, raconteur, actor and quiz show host - is also a self-confessed dweeb and meistergeek. As he confesses "If I added up all the hours I've sat watching a progress bar fill up, I could live another life." His feed on the social networking site Twitter is one of the most popular in the world. He spoke to BBC Radio 4's Analysis about why he believes the web is such a wondrous thing.

Self-confessed technology geek Stephen Fry tells BBC Radio 4's Analysis programme why the world wide web is a wondrous thing.

Clojure - Functional Programming for the JVM

Articolo in inglese della BBC, paragone con Google

Researchers claim that a new web tool - Wolfram Alpha - could be as important as Google.

This free program aims to answer questions directly, rather than display web pages in response to a query like a search engine. Like interacting with an expert, it will understand what you're talking about, do the computation, and then present you with the results. This technique has long been the holy grail of computer scientists who aim to allow people to interact with computers in an instinctive way.

mmmmmm

Interesting graphs of languages lining up code size with speed. Use at your own risk.

Planet

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LGDTXTR.COM

Online translator for translating teen text messaging lingo to regular English. The tool can come in handy for parents to keep in the know of what kids are texting about or simply for those who want to learn the text messaging lingo.

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Mobile texting "decoder"

texting shorthand definitions

Hier entsteht das "Neue Wörterbuch der Szenesprachen", ein Gemeinschaftsprojekt von Dudenverlag und Trendbüro. Und von euch. Denn Sprache ist lebendig. Sie verändert sich durch die Menschen, die sie sprechen. Darum macht mit, schreibt mit. Mit euren Wortentdeckungen könnt ihr das Buch aktiv mitgestalten.

Interessant!!! - neue Wörter in der Sprache -

Duden

Portal | Linguistic Trends – Made by Trendbüro

Duden-Wörterbuchprojekt zur "Szenesprache", d.h. Soziolekt

An ongoing project devoted to discovering all the words and everything about them

Show show words are used (both in terms of definitions and usage, including real-time)

python for android

Let's you view original and translated text side-by-side and easily edit the machine translation.

Translatation service from Google

People don't know what "louche" means?

"As you may know, highlighting a word or passage on the Times website calls up a question mark that users can click for a definition and other reference material. (Though the feature was recently improved, it remains a mild annoyance for myself and many others who nervously click and highlight text on webpages.) Anyway, it turns out the Times tracks usage of that feature, and yesterday, deputy news editor Philip Corbett, who oversees the Times style manual, offered reporters a fascinating glimpse into the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com in 2009. We obtained the memo and accompanying chart, which offer a nice lesson in how news sites can improve their journalism by studying user behavior."

the 50 most frequently looked-up words on nytimes.com in 2009

By Lera Boroditsky

ong time, the idea that language might shape thought was considered

Interesting recent work on Linguistic relativity / Sapir-Whorf Hypothesis related ideas in cognitive linguistics

Great for world language classes

Learn Spanish, Portuguese, German, Italian, French, English

online oefeningen ivm met het gebruik van werkwoorden in verschillende talen

Effective writing skills are to a writer what petrol is to a car. Like the petrol and car relationship, without solid skills writers cannot move ahead. These skills don’t come overnight, and they require patience and determination. You have to work smart and hard to acquire them. Only with experience, you can enter the realm of effective, always-in-demand writers.

I hop this web page will help me learn japanese, english, italian and french properly. thank, delicious

Laura I. Gómez is an online media executive and former college language instructor. You can follow her on latinageek.com and on Twitter @lauraigomez.

A dynamically typed, object oriented and functional language by _why the lucky stiff. Potion’s mantra is: Everything is an object. But objects aren’t everything ('cause everything's a function).

Tiny language from _why in which everything is an object and a function.

The better way to build your vocabulary | Contextual Examples From the Daily News

最新のニュースや記事から単語を学ぶ。ライターが使う最新の単語やキーワードなどが学べる。こりゃすごいがああたしにはちょいとむずかし。

rphism across strings/text/buffers/collections/arrays along with extremely verbose syntax for working with any kind of data structure

via @indrayam FF post

Scala as the long term replacement for java/javac?

Collection of interactive SMART Board games for educators on PBS KIDS. Students will enjoy participating in these collaborative, fun and engaging experiences, while exploring curriculum from trusted programs such as Curious George, Super Why and Arthur. Like our programs, all of our games are age-appropriate and vetted by educators.

this is a very good tol to have in your classroom.

"It applies in all walks of life. Church services and prayer books are full of three-part lists. Research has shown that people know a prayer is finished when it ends with them praying for three things. They know to say 'Amen' and don't have to be prompted." Also, it is economical - a third word is the earliest point at which a possible connection, implied by the first two, is confirmed. If you carry on listing items, say speech-writing experts, you risk being criticised for "going on and on". It can be th

many good points in this post , steal it for the script!!!

"In business, words are like fashion. You try a word on because important people around you are saying it and getting results, but you may not actually know what it means. Every group in the company has their own unique set of words and every group uses these words to verbally define who they are, what they know, and what they own. These words, these phrases, have value when everyone is in agreement as to what they mean, but used outside of your part of the organization, their value decreases, especially the closer you get to engineering."

This is you think you’re saying, but this is what we’re hearing. Corporate Crap.

Heads-up — “You’re screwed.”

The neurological assessment of the benefits of swearing. Also, researchers found that when we swear too much, the words lose the power of emotion.

FMyLife(Fuckな出来事を投稿するサイト)→単語覚える→英語wikipedia(辞書なし)→TED(スクリプトつき動画)→lang-8で添削したり日記

Being a comprehensive and complete enumeration of the Operatic Elements of the Perl 6 Language, assembled and drawn with dedication and diligence by M. Lentczner as a service to both the Community and the Republic. May this simple presentation with various illustrative devices increase Knowledge & Understanding amongst practitioners in the art of Software. Third Edition, February 14th, Two Thousand Nine

Perl 6 operators

Perl 6 Language Operatic Elements

def eat[T <: {def eat(): Unit}](a: T) // whatever

Bi-lingualism and learning new languages

language children

Just how poorly constructed was Sarah Palin?s good-bye speech? V.F. editor Wayne Lawson whips it into publishable shape, with a lot of help from his red pencil.

Vanity Fair copyedits Palin's resignation. She's a moron. If she were a man, I would call her a fucking moron. Oh, but wait! That's a double standard. She's a fucking moron, sorry. We're about equality here.

If you watched Sarah Palin’s resignation speech, you know one thing: her high-priced speechwriters moved back to the Beltway long ago. Just how poorly constructed was the governor’s holiday-weekend address? We asked V.F.’s red-pencil-wielding executive literary editor, Wayne Lawson, together with representatives from the research and copy departments, to whip it into publishable shape. Here is the colorful result.

useful for my long term Mandarin / Spanish plans

Sprachen: Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Polnisch, Russisch und Deutsch.

A Squeak fork

a fork from the Squeak open-source Smalltalk. We decided to start Pharo because as active Squeakers, and responsible for Squeak 3.9, we felt the need to reconsider choices made. We want to create a better Smalltalk and be free to enhance it without fear of backwards compatibility. Deciding to start Pharo was not easy because we invested a lot in Squeak (some of us wrote several books on Squeak and in particular Squeak By Example http://www.squeakbyexample.org/ ) and we like the Squeak community, but this is really important for us to open a new space. We want Pharo to be an excellent Smalltalk concerned with software engineering practices. We also want Pharo to be agile and be able to evolve. We hope you will like it and help make it better.

Quelle: http://www.schockwellenreiter.de/blog/2009/06/24/ein-neues-smalltalk/

# A converter between binary data description formats, such as Intel HEX. # Several versions of a recursive-descent parser for a simple language # Many scripts for Scite # At work I’ve developed a framework for using Python for verification of VHDL models. Python is used to write the test scenarios and generate VHDL testbenches from them. # A few applications for controlling embedded hardware via the serial port (with elaborate wxPython & PyQt GUIs) # A few applications for analyzing test reports and building summaries in a user-friendly format # A complex multi-threaded web-page download and analysis program for my own use # A couple of games: a Tetris clone with wxPython and a small game with Pygame as part of a tutorial # Analysis of numeric data with matplotlib # Parts of an assembler and linker for a synthetic language # Solved dozens of Project Euler problems, all in Python.

geiles intro. allein deshalb schon lesenswert :)

New programming language

Über 4,5 Mio Wörter. Sprachen: Englisch, Französisch, Spanisch, Italienisch, Polnisch, Russisch und Deutsch. Neu: Deutsche Rechtschreibung online

Wörterbuch Deutsch + 7 zweisprachige Wörterbücher

Dictionaries in different languages

PONS.eu - Online-Wörterbuch für die Sprachen Deutsch-Englisch, Englisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Französisch, Französisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Spanisch, Spanisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Italienisch, Italienisch-Deutsch, Deutsch-Polnisch, Polnisch-Deutsch, Französisch-Englisch, Englisch-Französisch, Spanisch-Englisch, Englisch-Spanisch, Deutsch-Russisch, Russisch-Deutsch, deutsche Rechtschreibung.

Der Schulbuchverlag Ernst Klett bringt ab sofort unter seiner Wörterbuchmarke Pons ein kostenloses Onlinenachschlagewerk zur deutschen Rechtschreibung. Konkurrent Duden reagiert mit Überlegungen, seine Rechtschreibkorrektur als Internetanwendung anzubieten, allerdings nicht gratis.

you need 1 catastrophic event or tragedy for every 167 words in the rest of the email. I usually toss in a couple extra for good measure. I've been told by an early adopter that the very elegant and self explanitory "These words are designed to kill advertisements" works wonderfully.

apparently, adding words about death and tragedy causes gmail to not show ads.

using keywords to invoke gmail's algorithmic sense of decorum, turn off gmail ads

"Ever since I’ve started blogging about technology a couple of years ago, I’ve been consistently growing an immense feeling of hate towards press releases, and it’s not getting any better. - It’s not that I dislike the PR industry in general, although I often wonder how so many of these firms continue to be in business when the large majority of them have been doing it exactly the same way for the past few decades, instead of evolving."

Ingen ansvarlig voksen ville idag bruge nogle af de ti ord in the first place.

Find Equilibrium

Start with an English phrase: this day will live in infamy let's go! this day will live in infamy into Japaneseこの日、汚名に住んでいるだろう back into English This day will live in infamy back into Japanese この日は汚名に住んでいるだろう back into English This day will live in infamy

Cool translation tool that often leads to interesting results in the end.

I'll save the explanation and let you figure it out for yourself, but everybody's doing it, and you should be doing it too.

translate a phrase to japanese and back until equilibrium is reached

Start with an English phrase: ... Find equilibrium.

Via ... someone's Twitter feed. The history of handwriting and the death of it. Does it matter that we are no longer tested for penmanship?

Don't blame computers for my chicken scratch. A shift in educational priorities has left an entire generation of Americans with embarrassingly bad penmanship. How much does it matter?

Don\'t blame computers for my chicken scratch. A shift in educational priorities has left an entire generation of Americans with embarrassingly bad penmanship. How much does it matter?

People born after 1980 tend to have a distinctive style of handwriting: a little bit sloppy, a little bit childish and almost never in cursive.

Started to learn a foreign language, but need to verify your texts by native speakers? You can place your text on CORRECTMYTEXT.COM and language experts will check it! Help other users to check their texts in your native language or language that you know!

check spelling 检查拼写

Public domain versions of language courses from the Foreign Service Institute.

Youtubeで学べる、英語のレッスンビデオ・厳選７チャンネル

英語翻訳サービス

どうにか英語の落としどころを見つけるみたいなサービス

An infitinate grid of text, editable by any visitor. You can even drag the screen around, to find more space and text.

Weird browser collaboration/game thing; infinitely scrollable text fiel

Text-Online-Live-Kollaboration. Einfacher geht es nicht!

microSyntax is about conventions, not standards. http://bit.ly/gsWQe << iRobt openIDeas tagLinks syndicNation

MicrosyntaxはTwitter語とTwitter文法のオンライン辞典を目指す http://jp.techcrunch.com/archives/20090525rt-microsyntax-sets-out-to-make-sense-of-twittergrammar/

Stowe Boyd's project to bring structure to the microstream

Deep structure for the real time stream.

Stowe Boyd

As a result of all this activity, and the potential for collective action in these efforts, we are launching a new non-profit, Microsyntax.org, with the purpose of investigating the various ways that individuals and tool vendors are trying to innovate around this sort of microsyntax, trying to define reference use cases that illuminate the ways they may be used or interpreted, and to create a forum where alternative approaches can be discussed and evaluated. We may even get involved in the development of proof-of-concept implementations that can act as reference architectures for microsyntactic extensions to the Twitter grammar emerging in the real time stream.

Like Microformats but for marking up syntactic data eg Twitter

Food and Travel Translation Cards for communicating food allergies and other health problems

We provide customized travel translation cards. Click on a card name above to see an example. If you don't see your languages or foods on our standard list, Special Order cards are also available. We have translated our travel cards into Arabic, Czech, Croatian, Vietnamese, Indonesian (Bali), Khmer (Cambodia), Hebrew, Tagalog (Philippines), Turkish and more.

A simple laminated card to translate food preferences

Tradução de mensagens no twitter

I like the interface - simple and clear.

translation

language translation easy and free

The Internet Movie Script Database（海外）：映画スクリプトのデータベースとして最大級だと思います。新作も結構すばやくアップされる感じです。イチオシです。 1. 左サイドバーの「Search IMSDb」に映画タイトルを入れて検索します。 2. 「Search Result」の下に検索した映画のタイトルがちっちゃく出てきます。アドワーズ広告がでかいので、検索結果を一瞬見失います。 3. 映画のタイトルをクリックすると、その映画の簡単な紹介ページに飛びます。枠内の一番下に、「Read “映画タイトル” Script」と出るので、これをクリックするとスクリーンプレイが出てきます

映画はとても効果的な英語教材です。映画の脚本を使いながら英語の勉強をすると、聞き取れなかった部分を補えたりするので、とても便利ですね。今日は、無料で映画のスクリーンプレイを手に入れられるサイトを紹介します。 (via http://d.hatena.ne.jp/tanemori/20090811/DailyLink)

Here, you’ll find 101 tools that can help you learn a new language without spending a dime on tuition.

In today's global economy, it's more important than ever for students to be fluent in more than one language.

A cross between Boggle and Tetris

game

This was originally written for the Phil Inch's Game Developer's Magazine and after getting lots of positive feedback I expanded and improved it. I have spent a lot of time working on this and would appreciate hearing from you if you like it.

Twitter-runoutta.

"The Longest Poem in the World" is composed by aggregating real-time public twitter updates and selecting those that rhyme.

I love simple creativity. This has it in spades.

legjobb, legjobb

This explains the need and a lot of the trials of feminism (and also acknowledges commanalities with other kinds of discrimination). It's about trust and how so many men fail at being trustworthy.

"This, then, is the terrible bargain we have regretfully struck: Men are allowed the easy comfort of their unexamined privilege, but my regard will always be shot through with a steely, anxious bolt of caution. A shitty bargain all around, really. But there it is." [Sometimes the worst isn't the asshole strangers. Sometimes the worst is a guy you care about casually, offhandedly acting like you're not a person. Making a rape joke, dismissing women as overemotional, telling you when you're offended and hurt that you have no sense of humor. The most damaging attacks are the ones from supposed friends. What can we do, but live in anticipation of the next betrayal?]

the everyday language of sexism and how much it hurts

"There is the perplexity at my fury that my life experience is not considered more relevant than the opinionated pronouncements of men who make a pastime of informal observation, like womanhood is an exotic locale which provides magnificent fodder for the amateur ethnographer. And there is the haughty dismissal of my assertion that being on the outside looking in doesn't make one more objective; it merely provides a different perspective."

English - A feminist about her feelings about men. [Warning: Page is huge and hard to load.]

Women sacrifice their rights to make men's lives easier. Beautifully written, and about all the little ways in which patriarchy is enforced. Use for teaching feminism 101.

That is diagrammatic representations of sentences on the web. Pretty cool!

Very cool

"Create and share diagrams by writing sentences!"

Create and share diagrams by writing sentences.

This pov (Twitter as social grooming) makes a lot of sense to me. But I would also dispute the term "pointless babble" itself: the two examples of "phatic" (non-information-conveying) expressions given here, "hi", and "thank you", actually can convey quite a lot of information, depending on context.

Spirited and spot on defence of the cod analysis of Twitter that some commentators engage in as a form of denial...

Now, turn all of your utterances over to an analytics firm so that they can code everything that you've said. I think that you'll be lucky if only 40% of what you say constitutes "pointless babble" to a third party ear.

Refreshing perspective on twitter. Makes me want to tweet. (Aside: this shines some light on things I've been trying to figure out about IM lately too. It might as well be re-titled "why IM should never be logged".)

The current Inform website

This package determines important terms within a given piece of content. It uses linguistic tools such as Parts-Of-Speech (POS) and some simple statistical analysis to determine the terms and their strength.

Term extraction and POS tagging in Python. Wonder how well the POS tagger performs.

Content Term Extraction using POS Tagging This package determines important terms within a given piece of content. It uses linguistic tools such as Parts-Of-Speech (POS) and some simple statistical analysis to determine the terms and their strength.

Cliff Click Jr.’s Blog

I just foolishly got caught in a You-Tube discussion on Java vs C performance. Foolish because You-Tube comments are a lousy way to present anything and because it's hard to keep the level of discourse scholarly. And foolish especially for me because I've had this discussion so many times and it always comes out the same way... so here's my attempt at distilling my arguments into something I can point people the *next* time I get caught in this silly discussion. Is Java faster than C/C++? The short answer is: it depends.

小さい処理系のまとめ, lisp, scheme, forthなどなど

A function accepts input and produces an output. Suppose we have a "chocolate-covering" function that produces the following outputs for the corresponding inputs: peanuts -> chocolate-covered peanuts rasins -> chocolate-covered rasins ants -> chocolate-covered ants We can use Lambda-calculus to describe such a function: Lx.chocolate-covered x This is called a lambda-expression. (Here the "L" is supposed to be a lowercase Greek "lambda" character). If we want to apply the function to an argument, we use the following syntax: Functions can also be the result of applying a lambda-expression, as with this "covering function maker": Ly.Lx.y-covered x We can use this to create a caramel-covering function: (Ly.Lx.y-covered x)caramel -> Lx.caramel-covered x (Lx.caramel-covered x)peanuts -> caramel-covered peanuts Functions can also be the inputs to other functions, as with this "apply-to-ants" function: Lf.(f)ants

Copacabana school site. Also contains resources for other subject areas.

These pages contain links to suitable activities to support

This site contains an amazing collection of English-related web resources sorted into the following categories: Stories/Poems/Rhymes, Reading, Writing, Keyboard Skills, & Grammar/Punctuation/Vocabulary.

This site contains an amazing collection of English-related web resources sorted into the following categories: Stories/Poems/Rhymes, Reading, Writing, Keyboard Skills, & Grammar/Puctuation/Vocabulary.

Collection of links to interacitve web activities that can be used with IWB

Want to know what a phrase or idiom means?

traductor frases diccionario inglés

OkCupid study using the messages sent by its users.

Online Dating Advice: Exactly What To Say In A First Message

Mmmmm stats applied to online dating - fascinating looking at what words work best. I wonder if similar principles apply to blog posts.

We analyzed over 500,000 first contacts on our dating site, OkCupid. Our program looked at keywords and phrases, how they affected reply rates, and what trends were statistically significant. The result: a set of rules for what you should and shouldn’t say when introducing yourself online. This is the second post of our statistical investigation into the optimal online dating message

JVM-based, Java-like language with dependency injection.

NOPかと思った。何もしないのかと

library

Noop (pronounced noh-awp, like the machine instruction) is a new language experiment that attempts to blend the best lessons of languages old and new, while syntactically encouraging industry best-practices and discouraging the worst offenses. Noop is initially targeted to run on the Java Virtual Machine.

ntroduction in building your first toy language.

How To Create Your Own Freaking Awesome Programming Language

英語を話す時にカタカナ英語をそのまま使って通じなかった経験はありませんか？　我々の身の回りに溢れている "英語のようなことば" の多くは英語ではなかったり，英語であっても英語の本来の意味とは異なる "和製英語" です。和製英語は外国から入ってきた日用品や美容関係のことば、車の用語に特に多いので、英会話や英語のライティング、英作文、翻訳等を行う時には十分注意しましょう。

The Lost Symbol, the latest novel by The Da Vinci Code author Dan Brown, has gone on sale. We pick 20 of the clumsiest phrases from it and from his earlier works. - The critics are certainly harsh. Edinburgh professor of linguistics Geoffrey Pullum says “Brown's writing is not just bad; it is staggeringly, clumsily, thoughtlessly, almost ingeniously bad.” He picks out some excerpts for special criticism. The female lead in Angels and Demons learns of the death of her scientist father: “Genius, she thought. My father . . . Dad. Dead.” A member of the Vatican Guard in the same book becomes annoyed by something, and we learn that "his eyes went white, like a shark about to attack."

Dan Brown's 20 worst sentences

Famously, comedian Stewart Lee mocked him for using the sentence “The famous man looked at the red cup” in his bestselling The Da Vinci Code.

"Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime. "

Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime.

Clamato is a Smalltalk dialect that is designed to operate within the JavaScript runtime. Clamato is self-hosting, in that it can compile itself to efficient JavaScript, entirely within the web browser. It uses a parser library based on Lukas Renggli’s PetitParser. Smalltalk constructs (eg: temps, instance variables, message sends, blocks) generally map one-to-one to their JavaScript equivalents (respectively: local variables, object properties, method calls, functions). There are several departures from Smalltalk’s syntax and semantics. The most notable of these are: no explicit returns, 0-based indexing, no metaclass hierarchy, special syntax for instance variables. Clamato includes an (incomplete) interface to the JQuery JavaScript library, along with a Seaside-like HTML builder. Cæsar is a system browser built on all of the above. Like Clamato, it departs in a few notable ways from traditional Smalltalk browsers, but retains their spirit.

JavaScriptに変換されてWebブラウザ上で動作するSmalltalkです。Webブラウザから直接開発できます。

Тесты, конкурсы и викторины

Idioms

To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

The twitter-based Word of the Day competition that helps clever people look clever and helps the rest of us learn new words. .To play, just use today’s word in context in one of your tweets. That’s it. Your tweet will appear here where people can tell you if they like it. You’ll get points if they like it or retweet it.

毎日、「今日の単語」が出題される。その単語を使って美しい文章を作り、Twitterでハッシュタグをつけて投稿すれば、他の人が評価してくれる、という仕組み。

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Neuroscience

frickin sweet

I have extended my xgoogle library with a Python module for Google Translate. The new module is called “xgoogle.translate” and it implements two classes - “Translator” and “LanguageDetector“. The “Translator” class can be used to translate text. It provides a function called “translate” that takes three arguments - “message“, “lang_from” and “lang_to“. It returns the translated text as a Unicode string. Don’t forget to encode it to the right encoding before outputting, otherwise you’ll get errors such as “UnicodeEncodeError: ‘latin-1′ codec can’t encode characters in position 0-3: ordinal not in range(256)”

Llyfrgell google translate i python

Research in to link occurrence, average syllables per word and readability grade levels of retweets vs. regular tweets.

Interesting. Linguistic analysis of tweets and retweets: http://tr.im/qsxn (via @NiemanLab) [from http://twitter.com/mkeagle/statuses/2420004728]

For those not familiar with the history of this discussion, the term "parse" here is being used in its strict sense to mean static parsing -- taking a piece of code and determining its structure without executing it. In that strict sense the Perl program does not parse Perl. As Jeffrey pointed out it means that you can't reliably parse perl code without executing it. This means that things like static code analysis, code transformation and syntax hilighting will never be reliable. This is a drawback indeed, but on the other hand it means that modules can extend Perl's syntax, and that other nifty stuff can be accomplished. So I understand this node as a proof of a property that is seldom fully understood.

[ UPDATE 14 Aug 2009: A series of three articles in The Perl Review, now available online, expands on this node. In that series, the proof is carefully laid out in three different versions, and is much more thoroughly explained. ]

An old book teaching the basics of assembly programming including explanations for the beginner of binary numbers etc.

数字の単位は丸暗記する

日本人が英語をしゃべるときに気をつけるべき７つのポイント

A simple widget to automagically translate your webpage into a bunch of different languages.

"Time taken to process an n-word sentence is proportional to n^3, or more." :)

Free online dictionary, thesaurus, spanish-english and medical dictionaries, audio pronunciations, Word of the Day, word games, and many more high-quality Merriam-Webster language resources.

Whether you want to learn how to renovate your kitchen or the intricacies of calculus, you'll find the assistance you need through these resources.

Includes the following categories: general, language, music, life skills, around the house, technology, general academia, business, health and fitness, math and science, liberal arts, fine arts.

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ooc is a modern, object-oriented, functional-ish, high-level, low-level, sexy programming language. it's translated to pure C with a source-to-source compiler.

On-line reading log

Reading Logs is a great way to organize student reading, spelling, and vocabulary practice. Learning material can be uploaded by teachers to be accessed by students online. Teachers can upload reading lists and reading goals for their class. These can be weekly or monthly goals and can be set up to track the number of minutes or the number of books read. Online competitions can be setup by the teacher (example: first student to read a certain number of minutes). Teachers can quickly post a vocabulary list where students can look up words with the online dictionary and add definitions to the cards. The cards can be studied online or downloaded as a pdf to print out. With the listen and spell system, teachers can upload spelling lists for students to practice. Students click on a button to listen to the spelling word and practice spelling it. They receive immediate feedback from the program. Reading Logs tracks students reading logs and updates teachers with progress.

An estimated 7,000 languages are being spoken around the world. But that number is expected to shrink rapidly in the coming decades. What is lost when a language dies? In 1992 a prominent US linguist stunned the academic world by predicting that by the year 2100, 90% of the world's languages would have ceased to exist.

Free guide for use of commas and other writing tips.

Rules for when to use and not to use commas.

は

Skip blithely between tenses: "I sit at my desk with my head in my hands and sighed. It is only three days until the deadline, I think, and Im going to have had to finished everything before then. If only I have finish this now, I thought and lean back on my chair. Just then, the phone has rung. I am answering it."

Write thinly-veiled, self-aggrandising autobiographical fiction: Joe Stockley paced the floor of his office and cursed under his breath. Dammit, he thought, why am I such a brilliant writer that no-one ever understands the depth and complexity of my work?

7 Bad Writing Habits You Learned in School - http://ow.ly/x7o1 [from http://twitter.com/JasonThibault/statuses/5243611493]

Good writing doesn’t have to be educated or well supported or even grammatically correct. It does have to be interesting enough that other people want to read it.

なんかすごいらしい。

英単語学習ソフト P-Study System などを配布しています．例文表示やネイティブ音声対応など、英単語をスムーズに暗記するための様々な機能を搭載しています．英検や大学受験対策，TOEIC対策に便利な問題集も無料で配布しています．

Why Haskell is beyond ready for Prime Time

Here’s a concrete example: I’ve got a list of numbers, and I want to split it up into two lists — one consisting of the evens, one consisting of the odds. This seems like a pretty specialized task, so I doubt there’s a function written for it explicitly. So let’s look for a function that takes a list, and a boolean test, and splits it into two lists — one consisting of the elements satisfying the test, and the other consisting of the elements that don’t. That is, I need a function that takes a list of integers, and a function from integers to bools, and produces two lists of integers. No problem: I jump over to Hoogle and search for functions of type [Int] -> (Int -> Bool) -> ([Int], [Int]). It produces a short list of results, tells me what library they are in, and even gives a brief description of what the function does. I quickly see that partition is the function I want.

**** Great Haskell Advocacy . We’ve got all the usual things — source control by darcs, unit testing by HUnit, automated testing by Quick Check, and source documentation by Haddock. We’ve also got package management by Cabal (tied into Hackage, of course). We’ve got one other tool that is perhaps the strongest reason for the language — the Glorious Glasgow Haskell Compiler. You won’t find a more advanced compiler anywhere on earth. It produces code that is performance-competitive with C, has built in support for profiling, and features a rich interactive mode that both helps you test code and also explore types and interfaces.

Wordpress Multi Languages: 5 Plugins To Built A Multilingual Website

5 plugins för att göra site på flera språk i WordPress

Wordpress Multi Languages: 5 Plugins To Built A Multilingual Website - http://www.webdesignbooth.com/wordpress-multi-languages-5-plugins-to-built-a-multilingual-website/

for your inner grammar dork/nerd

A racket of banshees. A congress of ghosts... (h/t TNH)

A vexation of zombies.

"Thousands of different Lego exist, yet when your seven-year-old asks for “a clippy bit,” you know exactly what to hand him. Giles Turnbull surveys a caucus of children." Giles brings utter joy again. (via infovore)

"This language of Lego isn’t just something our family has invented; every Lego-building family must have its own vocabulary. And the words they use (mostly invented by the children, not the adults) are likely to be different every time. But how different? And what sort of words? Hence, a survey. I asked fellow parents to donate their children for a few minutes, and name a selection of Lego pieces culled from the Lego parts store."

Cute.

The various names that kids call lego pieces. Roland Barthes would smile. s/z

Shortest sentence

shortest sentence using all letters in alphabet

icon1 Posted by Site Administrator in Features, Online Education on 11 4th, 2009 | no responses Learning a new language can be a great way to challenge your mind, meet people from different cultures and even add a valuable asset to your resume and hireability. While traditional courses can be great, there are a number of free courses on the web that can help teach you the basics of language learning and get you on the path to fluency without having to spend a fortune. Here are 100 resources we’ve found that will help you become multilingual in your choice of languages.

Learn new languages Online Universities

cursos

اگر میخواهید زبانهای مختلف را اصولی آموزش ببینید، از این فهرست کمک بگیرید

Google 発の開発言語

Home of the new Google Go language.

"a systems programming language expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected" -- BSD license

expressive, concurrent, garbage-collected

What if programming languages were real persons like you and me? What if they were parts of families and had relations and affairs? Have you ever thought of going to a supermarket and Visual Basic was the young woman waiting in the line in front of you?

There is a growing rebellion against cumbersome type systems like those

TODO: find out why, and where

Go Programming Language from google

Rob Pike, eden od ustvarjalcev jezika Go, predstavi glavne featurje jezika. Vredno ogleda!

Go is a new experimental systems programming language intended to make software development fast. Our goal is that a major Google binary should be buildable in a few seconds on a single machine. The language is concurrent, garbage-collected, and requires explicit declaration of dependencies. Simple syntax and a clean type system support a number of programming styles.

Introductory talk for the new programming language from Google

So... At the end of the day, what do I think? I like Go, but I don't love it. If it had generics, it would definitely be my favorite of the C/C /C#/Java family. It's got a very elegant simplicity to it which I really like. The interface type system is wonderful. The overall structure of programs and modules is excellent. But it's got some ugliness. Some of the ugliness is fixable, and some of it isn't. On balance, I think it's a really good language, but it could have been a lot better. It's not going to wipe C off the face of the earth. But I think it will establish itself as a solid alternative. And hopefully, over time, they'll fix some of the worst parts of the ugliness, without sacrificing the beauty or simplicity of the language. Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Fscienceblogs.com%2Fgoodmath%2F2009%2F11%2Fgoogles_new_language_go.php

"The most innovative thing about it is its type system. There are two kinds of types in Go: concrete types, and interface types. Concrete types are exactly what you're used to from most programming languages. Interface types are similar to interface types in languages like Java, with one huge exception: you don't need to declare what interface types you implement! An interface is a specification of what methods a type must provide to be used in some context. Anything which implements those methods implements the interface. Even if the interface was defined later than a type, in a different module, compiled separately, if the object implements the methods named in the interface, then it implements the interface." -- This is nice and all, but I (still) don't understand why this isn't just "abstract data types implemented in a language people might use." Didn't Barbara Liskov *just* win a Turing Award for this? Isn't this idea 30+ years old? (Yes, it is.)

Good Go, Bad Go.

A list of the many challenges of internationalization. My favourite code-breaker is Russian pluralization: if you are saying "X new messages", then "messages" is spelled one way if X ends in 1, another if it ends if 2,3, or 4, and a third way if it ends in 5,6,7,8,9 or 0. I cannot imagine how annoying this must be to code.

It’s not always as simple as 'Just use Unicode'

'Let us start by looking at four main variables in the space : language, country, culture and technology. Language. Let us take that one first. How hard can that be? Well, what list of languages do you want to target? Please don't say "all of them". There is no such thing as a definitive list of languages and even if there was, the list of languages supported in Unicode changes across various incarnations of Unicode. Oh, and there are languages with unbounded sets of "characters" such as Chinese which literally cannot be fully described in Unicode.'

Some examples of why internationalization and localization are not as simple as "just use Unicode".

Nice explanation of the complexity of language support.

NiceTranslator es un traductor en línea rápido y fácil de utilizar, diseñado pensando en simplicidad y funcionalidad.

NiceTranslator is a fast, easy to use online translator that allows a user to translate into multiple languages as they type. Nice Translator was designed with simplicity and functionality in mind.

I gave a talk at London Ruby User Group yesterday, based on the work I’ve been doing on Heist, my Scheme interpreter project. I wrote the core of a basic Scheme interpreter in about 15 minutes as a live-coded demo (well, kind of – the coding was pre-recorded so I could focus on talking), which seemed to go down pretty well.

15分で作るScheme interpreter in Ruby.

A talk on how to implement a Scheme interpreter in 15 minutes. The parsing is taken care of primarily by Treetop, a syntactic analysis / parser creation DSL for Ruby.

Historia de la programación, lenguajes y manuales originales en pdf.

Google IME

64bit未対応

Google 日本語入力はシンプルで高速な Windows と Mac OS X 用の日本語入力ソフトウェアです。インターネットに最適化された、豊富な語彙数と入力サジェストによる快適な日本語入力を提供します。

"Mitra’s team wanted to find out what would happen if an isolated bird raised his own colony. As expected, birds raised in soundproof boxes grew up to sing cacophonous songs. But then scientists let the isolated birds give voice lessons to a new round of hatchlings. They found that the young males imitated the songs — but they tweaked them slightly, bringing the structure closer to that of songs sung in the wild. When these birds grew up and became tutors, their pupils’ song continue to conform, with tweaks. After three to four generations, the teachers were producing strapping young finches that belted out normal-sounding songs."

A very cool study, and a well-written article.

via http://www.dailygalaxy.com/my_weblog/2009/08/can-culture-be-genetically-encoded-new-research-says-yes.html

GReader: Culture May Be Encoded in DNA [feedly] http://ow.ly/58hy [from http://twitter.com/ChipRiley/statuses/1700727055]

Knowledge is passed down directly from generation to generation in the animal kingdom as parents teach their children the things they will need to survive. But a new study has found that, even when the chain is broken, nature sometimes finds a way. Zebra finches, which normally learn their complex courtship songs from their fathers, spontaneously developed the same songs all on their own after only a few generations.

Learn Language Vocabulary with Mnemonics

learn spanish, other languages

Memorista currently offers learning tools for 5 languages—French, German, Italian, Polish, and Spanish. Choose from several flashcard packs for each language, like People, Basic Expressions, or Food and Drink. Each word or phrase is presented in flashcard format, and accompanied by a mnemonic to help you associate the words. When you think you've mastered a category, Memorista tests you to check your progress.

これは実体験に基づく英語上達のノウハウである

すげえ．

単語の増やし方は参考になる。

すっごい努力家だな・・・

A bit liberal with the profanity, but nevertheless an excellent piece by Paddy Donnelly on the infuriating experience of reading misspelled writing. He's right, of course: if you want anyone to take you seriously you had better learn to spell correctly.

no, really.

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This is a pretty cool tool to manage translations

فایلتان را آپلود کنید و ترجمه آن را تحویل بگیرید!

Online translation memory system

Here's what you can do with Google Translator Toolkit: * Upload Word documents, OpenOffice, RTF, HTML, text, Wikipedia articles and knols. * Use previous human translations and machine translation to 'pretranslate' your uploaded documents. * Use our simple WYSIWYG editor to improve the pretranslation. * Invite others (by email) to edit or view your translations. * Edit documents online with whomever you choose. * Download documents to your desktop in their native formats --- Word, OpenOffice, RTF or HTML. * Publish your Wikipedia and knol translations back to Wikipedia or Knol.

/via /cc /by

Neue Twitter-Konventionen: "slashtags"

"All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way."

Since it’s apparently all the rage to design your own features for Twitter now, I figured I’d build on my success with the hashtag and crank out a few more. All of these are simple conventions for adding more standard metadata to a post in a specific, uniform way.

Slashers and pointers. /via, /cc, /by. Good ideas /via @ChrisMessina.

Article about advantages of scripting languages over system programming languages

Scripting: Higher Level Programming

Scripting languages such as Perl and Tcl represent a very different style of programming than system programming languages such as C or JavaTM. Scripting languages are designed for "gluing" applications; they use typeless approaches to achieve a higher level of programming and more rapid application development than system programming languages. Increases in computer speed and changes in the application mix are making scripting languages more and more important for applications of the future.

McSweeney's Internet Tendency: God Texts the 10 Commandments.

RT @ryantracey: RT @MarnieBristow @CatharineRedden God texts the 10 commandments *luv it* http://bit.ly/rRQhI [from http://twitter.com/retrogrrl/statuses/2024500477]

Official page on 2.6 on python.org. Lots of Python 3 compatibility features/

2.5->2.6.2

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This is an introduction to JavaScript. There are plenty of these on the web, but most of them appear to be for non-programmers, teaching the building-blocks of programming as JavaScript uses them. And that's fine, because many people who have never programmed in their lives, find themselves needing a tiny bit of script for their web page, and need to start somewhere.

Learn a new language online

Site para aprender novos idiomas.

文章　順序

こんちには みさなん おんげき ですか？　わしたは げんき です。 この ぶんょしう は いりぎす の ケブンッリジ だがいく の けゅきんう の けっか にんんげ は もじ を にしんき する とき その さしいょ と さいご の もさじえ あいてっれば じばんゅん は めくちちゃゃ でも ちんゃと よめる という けゅきんう に もづいとて わざと もじの じんばゅん を いかれえて あまりす。 どでうす？　ちんゃと よゃちめう でしょ？ ちんゃと よためら はのんう よしろく

人間は文字を認識するときに最初と最後の文字さえ合っていれば順番はめちゃくちゃでもちゃんと読めてしまう

おかいしのに　なかぜ読める　不議思な　日本語。(試しに漢字も混ぜて書いた。） どっかで最近読んだな～と思ったら、岩波書店の１冊でわかるシリーズ「脳」にこれの英語版が載ってた。

Изучение английского через видео

Изучение английского с помощью видео. Эффективный метод интерактивного изучения английского.

Words sell.

まとめ：2009年を人生のターニングポイントにするための英語学習Tips17選 : ガジェットなどを駆使し、スマートに楽しむ仕事術「Lifehack」。「ライフハッカー［日本版］」では、その言葉を広義に捉え、生活全般に役立つライフハック情報を日々お届けします。

CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Think of it as JavaScript's less ostentatious kid brother — the same genes, roughly the same height, but a different sense of style. Apart from a handful of bonus goodies, statements in CoffeeScript correspond one-to-one with their equivalent in JavaScript, it's just another way of saying it.

"CoffeeScript is a little language that compiles into JavaScript. Think of it as JavaScript's less ostentatious kid brother — the same genes, roughly the same height, but a different sense of style. Apart from a handful of bonus goodies, statements in CoffeeScript correspond one-to-one with their equivalent in JavaScript, it's just another way of saying it."

How far does copyright go over the Internet? From this site it goes as far as copyrighting phrases of the English language. Few everyday words drawn together to make a normal phrase with some unhappy campers trying to get them to credit them back for 'stealing' their book title name without permission. Yeah, good one.

article about trademarking of common phrases- what happens when commonly used phrases are copyrighted and you are charged for them? Especially when word of mouth and word of twitter speed up their momentum of use.

@ The Oatmeal

毎週７時間のリスニング 私が主に聞くのは、アメリカのブログ界だったら知らない人のいない Leo Laporte 率いる Twit ネットワークの番組、あるいはその関係者のやっている番組です。これらのポッドキャストは iTunes から無料でダウンロードできますし、深夜であれば彼がレコーディングしている様子を生で見たり、チャットルームに参加することが出来ます。

いつかつかう

25分/129円～のオンライン英会話。講師はフィリピン人

英会話、Skype、毎日25分、一か月5000円

What is the hardest language?

n all dem anglophones

Frankly it's amazing that anyone learns any language. Maybe Esperanto wasn't such a bad idea after all.

In search of the world's hardest language

We asked several experts to explain the roots of this shift, and how it might affect the future course of the written language.

mechanical turk for translation

MyGengo offers human translation services between English, Japanese, Chinese, Spanish, Italian and Russian. And it does work much like Amazon’s crowdsourced marketplace: The site’s 600 “certified” translators wait for a customer to upload a document or text and take care of those jobs they can deal with. Customers can choose between three quality and pricing levels and usually get the translations back within a few hours, saving up to 70% in costs when compared to professional translators.

Faster than C, safer than Java, simpler than *sh

[[int\]

A couple of weeks ago, I had a chance to glance through Stoyan Stefanov’s Object-Oriented Javascript. The book had an exceptionally high rating on Amazon (12 reviews with 5 stars), so I was curious to see if it was something worth recommending. I started reading through chapter on functions, and really enjoyed the way things were explained there; the flow of examples was structured in such nice, progressive way, it seemed even beginners would grasp it easily. However, almost immediately I stumbled upon an interesting misconception present throughout the entire chapter — deleting functions. There were some other mistakes (such as the difference between function declarations and function expressions), but we aren’t going to talk about them now. The book claims that “function is treated as a normal variable—it can be copied to a different variable and even deleted.”. Following that explanation, there is this example:

Description of the delete statement in Javascript and how it really works.

4.10 Recursion

Similar to 'Pride and Prejudice and Vampires', here is an adaptation of a famous book in the computer science canon, rewritten in the style of H.P. Lovecraft, specifically 'The Shadow Over Innsmouth' (which I'm coincidentally also reading on my iPhone).

I never heard of C Recursion till the day before I saw it for the first and– so far– last time. They told me the steam train was the thing to take to Arkham; and it was only at the station ticket-office, when I demurred at the high fare, that I learned about C Recursion. The shrewd-faced agent, whose speech shewed him to be no local man, made a suggestion that none of my other informants had offered. "You could take that old bus, I suppose," he said with a certain hesitation. "It runs through C Recursion, so the people don't like it. I never seen more'n two or three people on it– nobody but them C folks."

Brian W Kernighan & Dennis M Ritchie & HP Lovecraft

void Cthulhu (int Ia) { if (Ia/10) Cthulhu (IA/10); putchar // ftagn! (Ia % 10 + '0'); } // neblod zin!

"The English language is derived from two main sources. One is Latin, the florid language of ancient Rome. The other is Anglo-Saxon, the plain languages of England and northern Europe. The words derived from Latin are the enemy—they will strangle and suffocate everything you write. The Anglo-Saxon words will set you free."

good writing models

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ruby game to practice ai

Like CRobots for Ruby!

"This is a game designed to teach the Ruby language and artificial intelligence in a fun, interactive way. You play as a warrior climbing a tall tower to reach the precious Ruby at the top level. On each floor you need to write a Ruby script to instruct the warrior to battle enemies, rescue captives, and reach the stairs. You have some idea of what each floor contains, but you never know for certain what will happen. You must give the Warrior enough artificial intelligence up-front to find his own way."

other entries NSFW or just gross.

Web Seer Compare Google Suggest results. Try the beginnings of questions: "are men" vs. "are women" or "will he" vs. "will she."

Let's you compare difference in Google Suggest

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are: at all times: replace with always at the present time: replace with now or currently...

How to use one word instead of several.

Phrases that can be replaced with single words.

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning.

"Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning…"

Via Winer; a nice list of longish phrases that can be replaced by a single word without loss of meaning. Useful for Twitter, or, indeed, for any writing.

cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning.

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning For use in twitter

A cut 'n' save special: Some of the phrases I see a lot that can easily be replaced with one word without losing meaning are

about ipod and apple. 310110

news article

As school leaders ponder the implications of new technologies for their classrooms, one dedicated New Jersey educator has turned theory into practice, using the iPod to teach English as a Second Language (ESL) students. During an International Society for Technology in Education (ISTE) webinar titled "iPods as Teaching Tools for Language Learners," Grace Poli, media specialist at Jose Marti Middle School in Union City, N.J., and an Apple distinguished educator, discussed how the iPod is transforming learning in her school.

iPods are no longer simply used for listening to your favorite songs. Providing "anytime, anywhere learning", iPods can accommodate different learning styles with children learning English. You can even use songs for grammar exercises and figurative language activities.

IPOD to help ESL student learn English

This site is for the ESL population. It is an article discussing how Ipods can be used to teach ESL students English. Plus it includes links to other sites that could be of interest to the topic. Music is important in almost all cultures. It can be used to reach students in understanding meanings of words that otherwise might have been difficult to explain. Not just music can be downloaded to Ipods but audio stories too. This device can be used in the classroom as a personal guide to the English language. Teachers can pick particular songs to demonstrate grammar or vocabulary. The student will be motivated to learn because this technique makes it about them.

It's not an intranet, it's a VPN. It's not an extranet, it's a VPN. Hahahaha, I remember PointCast! (But push is back, at least on certain mobile devices that don't let you run background processes ...)

This list is useful for 20-somethings, too. Now when the senior person in the office uses one of these terms, you'll know what he's talking about.

i'm gonna use these as much as possible from now on.

patterns for parallel programming

Lexical Analysis of 2008 US Presidential and Vice-Presidiential Debates

wow - this is impressive. Lexical Analysis of Pres debates: http://mkweb.bcgsc.ca/debates/ [from http://twitter.com/pollyrt/statuses/963468907]

How can C Programs be so Reliable?

I don't know python so I can't say whether these gripes are legitimate, but it's useful to remind yourself to look for such inconsistencies in how you do things, or in the tools you use every day

simple game with audio. good for gr. 3 or so

Between The Lions. Synonym Sam Lab. (Ruby In Her Own Time Unit) 3.2

Fun game for the little ones! Educational too!

game to identify synonyms of words

How the Ecocn.org folks work

A description of a group of volunteers translating every article in the weekly Economist into Chinese.

"a group of dedicated fans of The Economist newsmagazine are translating each weekly issue cover-to-cover, splitting up the work among a team of volunteers, and redistributing the finished translations as complete PDFs for a Chinese audience. "

They call themselves The Eco Team, a group of about 240 passionate Economist fans led by a 39-year-old insurance broker named Shi Yi.

The list of sensitive subjects includes China-Taiwan's political relationship, Tibet, Falun Gong, the Tiananmen Square protests, the Cultural Revolution, discussions of freedom of the press or freedom of religion, and any discussion of the establishment of a new Chinese political party.

interesting

JavaScript is a language we love despite it giving us so much to hate. This is a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just pain unintuitive moments for the language of the web.

JavaScript is a language we love despite it giving us so much to hate. This is a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just pain unintuitive moments for the language of the web.

"JavaScript is a language we love despite it giving us so much to hate. This is a collection of those very special irregularities, inconstancies and just pain unintuitive moments for the language of the web."

But rather than being all about creative flair a good speech-writer uses a number of techniques to get a point across. And these verbal tools are not only useful at the lectern, anyone can use them in everyday situations, from handling a boisterous child to reasoning with a traffic warden. This is because speech-writing is the language of persuasion. And the average day largely consists of trying to persuade people, says Dr Max Atkinson, a communications consultant and author of Speech-Making and Presentation Made Easy.

A brilliant speech can go down in history. But most of us write words the world will never listen to. Can speech-writing teach us skills for dealing with tricky situations in everyday life?

Max Atkinson

Some tips on good speech techniques

A Wordy editor will check your text for grammar, spelling, punctuation and structure. Wordy has editors that specialise in a wide range of subjects, which ensures your text will be of the very highest quality.

danish company that does editing with a very quick turnaround

Wordy is the fastest, most reliable way of adding professional copy-editing to your writing process

The very things I find ugly in Ruby are what make amazing Ruby software like RSpec possible, and that Python could never have (given the current implementation). Gary Bernhardt I think Ruby's syntax is ugly until they do something glorious and beautiful with it like Rake, then I think "damn it!" Unidentified Attendee

November 14, 2008, 10:00 pm The Wild Wordsmith of Wasilla Electronic devices dislike me. There is never a day when something isn’t ailing. Three out of these five implements — answering machine, fax machine, printer, phone and electric can-opener — all dropped dead on me in the past few days. Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will only get Sarah Palin. I can play a kind of Alaskan roulette. Any random channel clicked on by the remote brings up that eager face, with its continuing assaults on the English Lang.

Now something has gone wrong with all three television sets. They will get only Sarah Palin. I can play a kind of Alaskan roulette. Any random channel clicked on by the remote brings up that eager face, with its continuing assaults on the English Lang.

I'd like a ORLY dialect. kthxbye.

Like, Python was created by Jonathan Howard in February 2010 while drinking and reviewing code for an upcoming project with a coworker. At a certain point, higher-level explanations devolved into just flat-out reading Python code like they were actually speaking the language normally - complete with like's, um's, whatever's, etc - making it completely impractical/awesome for work. It was then that Jonathan realized he should perhaps stop for the night. And START creating Like, Python. e.g. ok so like name = raw_input("yo! what's your name?" ) right if name.strip() is actually like "": toootally just exit() else: um yeah print like "Hi %s, nice to meet you." % name

"It's about time programming languages understood what the kids are typing these days. So let's start with a baby step in that direction: Like, Python."

Shakespeare plays in XML format

Els sons del Catala`

Pronunciació

Conjunt de recursos i materials que s’han elaborat per facilitar l’ensenyament de la fonètica catalana. De la UPC

Words that Zing

Using data from Google to make suggetions on where you might like to go next, What Do You Suggest is an experimental and interactive environment designed to explore how we use language and search on the internet.

redo ‘jumps’ to the beginning of the block

REDO: Ruby’s Most Underused Keyword

To understand this, remember this (from the Pickaxe book): "A Ruby iterator is simply a method that can invoke a block of code"

The problem with this line of questioning is that technology predated our humanness. Many other animals used tools millions of years before humans. Chimpanzees made (and of course still make) hunting tools from thin sticks to extract termites from mounds, or slam rocks to break nuts. Even termites themselves construct vast towering shells of mud for their homes. Ants herd aphids and farm fungi in gardens. Birds weave elaborate twiggy fabrics for their nests. The strategy of bending the environment to use as if it were part of your body is a billion year old trick at least.

Kevin Kelly on technology-and-humanity's coevolution. "Our genes have co-evolved with our inventions. In the past 10,000 years alone, in fact, our genes have evolved 100 times faster than the average rate for the previous 6 million years. This should not be a surprise. In the same period we domesticated the dog (all those breeds) from wolves, and cows and corn and more from their unrecognizable ancestors. We, too, have been domesticated. We have domesticated ourselves. Our teeth continue to shrink, our muscles thin out, our hair disappear, our molecular digestion adjust to new foods. Technology has domesticated us. As fast as we remake our tools, we remake ourselves. We are co-evolving with our technology, so that we have become deeply co-dependent on it. Sapiens can no longer survive biologically without some kind of tools. Nor can our humanity continue without the technium. In a world without technology, we would not be living, and we would not be human."

the evolution of humans is the evolution of our abilities to analyze and abstract patterns. Languagem, the ultimate pattern abstraction, was crucial to this. (math is just rigorously formal language)

Life before language and before technology

We are co-evolving with our technology, so that we have become deeply co-dependent on it. Sapiens can no longer survive biologically without some kind of tools. Nor can our humanity continue without the technium. In a world without technology, we would not be living, and we would not be human

Official Google Blog: Translating the world's information with Google Translator Toolkit

"Users pay attention to details in a site's writing style, and they'll notice if you use the wrong variant of the English language."

worth a glance, but it's the Brits' fault that they cannot spell things correctly. Use wrong size paper too!

Users pay attention to details in a site's writing style, and they'll notice if you use the wrong variant of the English language.

An in-depth interview with Steve Bourne, creator of the Bourne shell, or sh

Key Elements to Website Design

Teabonics - a new dialect of the english language... assorted pictures from Tea Party gatherings with spelling/grammar challenges...

Can't stop clicking...

These are signs seen primarily at Tea Party Protests. They all feature "creative" spelling or grammar. This new dialect of the English language shall be known as "Teabonics."

Teabonics!!! RT @remarkk: Teabonics: a Flickr set of misspelled signs seen at Tea Party protests http://bit.ly/cQnrVx

Teabaggers hoisting poorly spelled protest signs.

How to pronounce foreign names.

An online searchable database containing thousands of name pronunciations. Learn how to pronounce names correctly from native speakers. Audio Name Pronunciation Guide and Database

Escuchar online como se pronuncia un nombre

Пиратский Google

アノテーションじゃなくてコンパイラディレクティブ

Objective-C 入門

Grammaropolis is a fresh, fun, and exciting new way to learn about the parts of speech.

Grammar website for kids

Grammaropolis is a fun find that helps students learn the parts of speech. In Grammaropolis, all of the characters are a different part of speech. Students will “meet” Adverb, Linking Verb, Pronoun, Adjective, Preposition, Slang, Noun, Conjunction, Interjection, and Action Verb.

great grammar music video. simple explanations of parts of speech

Animated personified parts of speech with stories, songs, and games to help kids learn about grammar.

This is a great way to teach grammar to students in a way that they will never forget

About the creative (descriptive) use of language

An interesting discuss on language and how images have different meaning to different people and cultures

Lera Boroditsky's take on how language transmit culture. I'd also love to read her essay, "How Does Language Shape the Way We Think" in the anthology What's Next (Vintage Books, June 2009)

Through Juliet's lips, Shakespeare said "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet." But the Bard may have been wrong &mdash; names do matter. Language researchers say your sense of the rose depends on what you call it.

Lera Boroditsky asks us to describe a bridge - "What explains the difference? Boroditsky proposes that because the word for "bridge" in German — die brucke — is a feminine noun, and the word for "bridge" in Spanish — el puente — is a masculine noun, native speakers unconsciously give nouns the characteristics of their grammatical gender" (wikipedia notes that "For the Burning Man festival, she once built a banana vehicle" ;)

Value EnglishのVOAコースをやろうと決めた

"聴く能力と話す能力の両方を訓練する方法のひとつが、「シャドウイング」shadowing である。きょうはそのやり方を紹介する。"

Some great online activities for practising grammar, punctuation and other language skills.

interactive for use from home or school

Great source for online games

Skills activities for the US 2nd grade.

Interactive compound words resources for 2nd grade language arts, compound words, combine two words, spelling, main idea, grammar, great small actiivities for all subjects

Internet resources to use in classroom instruction, developing project ideas, reinforcing specific subject matter areas both in the class and at home and even for online technology tutorials.

2nd grade Educational Site

Links to interactive games for grammar, phonics and reading.

I care about this alot

The Alot is Better Than You at Everything As a grammatically conscientious person who frequents internet forums and YouTube, I have found it necessary to develop a few coping mechanisms. When someone types out "u" instead of "you," instead of getting mad, I imagine them having only one finger on each hand and then their actions seem reasonable. If I only had one finger on each hand, I'd leave out unnecessary letters too!

I want my own alot.

The Alot is an imaginary creature that I made up to help me deal with my compulsive need to correct other people's grammar. It kind of looks like a cross between a bear, a yak and a pug, and it has provided hours of entertainment for me in a situation where I'd normally be left feeling angry and disillusioned with the world. For example, when I read the sentence "I care about this alot," this is what I imagine:

how phrases work in search indexes

Totally serious - a little mad but interesting

A history of the gruff but surprisingly sophisticated invented language and the people who speak it.

The closest thing to 'hello' in the Klingon language is 'What do you want?' Awesome. http://bit.ly/LPtZS [from http://twitter.com/ellaminnowpea/statuses/1803100377]

This site provides a lot of neat ways to teach poetry to younger children and activities for them to do.

Great for poetry, thematic units, metaphor, simile.

Poetry lessons

Although this website is intended for a younger age group than I intend to teach, it is always good to look at another perspective and use other ideas to help with your own classroom development. Plus, sometimes the older students like to do fun activities that are recommended for a younger age group.

visualisiert Text in Baumdiagramm

obama word tree

interactive map to explore the speech

X# (pronounced X-sharp) is a domain specific language designed to quickly create Web applications and services. In X# everything is represented as a hierarchical structure or tree and instead of using functions to manipulate information or perform actions, all possible operations you can think of are done by adding, removing or changing nodes from this tree. Since there are no functions to learn and everything is done intuitively, even inexperienced developers can create complex Web applications and services in record time.

X# (pronounced X-sharp) is a domain specific language designed to quickly create Web applications and services. In X# everything is represented as a hierarchical structure or tree and instead of using functions to manipulate information or perform actions, all possible operations you can think of are done by adding, removing or changing nodes from this tree.

Web application and services domain specific language

Conjugating verbs can be a challenge for people learning the English language. Conjugation.com aims to help those people learning English. Type a verb into the Conjugation.com engine generates a list of ways that verb can be conjugated. Conjugation.com also provides examples of your chosen verb being used in a sentence. Conjugation.com provides a widget that you can embed into your blog or website for visitors to use. To install the widget click the conjugation.com on your site link, copy the code provided, and paste it into your blog's template. Applications for Education Conjugation.com could be useful for ESL/ELL students as well as native speakers of English who struggle with verb conjugation. If you have students contributing to a group blog, the Conjugation.com widget could be a good asset to add to the group blog. - Free Technology for Teachers

English Verb Conjugation - THE ORIGINAL verb conjugation website. 15000 verbs conjugated in all modes, affirmative, interrogative, negative, in all persons, tenses, voices, and forms. Results automatically displayed for all regular verbs, irregular verbs, and modal verbs.

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Some are mostly amusing, like Ugley, Essex; East Breast, in western Scotland; North Piddle, in Worcestershire; and Spanker Lane, in Derbyshire.

“‘I say, “It’s spelled ‘crap,’ as in crap,”’ said Mr. Pearce, 61, who has lived in Crapstone, a one-shop country village in Devon, for decades.”

In the scale of embarrassing place names, Crapstone ranks pretty high. But Britain is full of them. Ask the residents of Titty Ho, North Piddle, Spanker Lane or Penistone.

Penistone...Tumbledown Dick Road in Oxfordshire...Crapstone. You gotta love the brits.

Ein Wörterbuch über Begriffe aus Sicherheitsdebatten und was damit eigentlich gemeint ist.

Wie lassen sich Einschränkungen der Freiheit als Gewinn verkaufen? Indem man sie sprachlich vernebelt. Ein Katalog des Neusprech der Inneren Sicherheit

Untersucht mit welchen Worten die immer neuen Einschränkungen persönlicher Freiheiten gerechtfertigt werden, die in den vergangenen Jahren im Zuge des "Kampfs gegen den Terror" und der Stärkung des abwehrbereiten Staates verabschiedet wurden.

herrlich und gefährlich, wie euphemismen eingesetzt werden, um polizeistaat-handlungen zu beschreiben. beispiel: "finaler rettungsschuss" statt schießbefehl/tötungsgenehmigung

"Developers hate it when a new version of a language doesn't work with the code written for older versions of that language, but for van Rossum, the radical upgrade was necessary. The language was becoming ever more weighed down by multiple ways of doing the same task, and ways of doing tasks no one ever actually did."

Typically, each new version of the Python programming language has been gentle on users, more or less maintaining backward compatibility with previous versions. But in 2000, when Python creator Guido van Rossum announced that he was embarking on a new version of Python, he did not sugar coat his plan: Version 3.0 would not be backward-compatible. Now that the first release candidate of Python 3.0 is out, with final release planned for later this month, developers must grapple with the issue of whether to maintain older code or modify it to use the new interpreter.

Reading is declining, what's lost, and what we might do about it.

"There’s a real difference between watching a talk and reading a transcript. A transcript doesn’t convey the tone of voice, the pauses and gestures that punctuate an argument.""And yet people still read articles and essays, and they still demand transcripts. Why?" "The informational density of writing is only half the story. The other half is in the unique ability of the written word to construct and convey complex intellectual ideas.""Reading is not simply a faster form of listening; it is a qualitatively different process that involves completely different pathways in the brain. The field of language acquisition is a messy and contentious one, but few would disagree with the statement that it is much easier - for whatever reason - for children to learn how to talk than to read."

RT @lifehacker Foreign Service Institute's Extensive Language Courses Are Available Free Online - .. http://bit.ly/aZ1x14

Artificial Intelligence | Natural Language Processing

Natural Language/Artificial Intelligence Lectures

Couldn't Agree More!

Nearly every company relies on the written word to woo customers. So why is most business writing so numbingly banal?

One of my favorite phrases in the business world is full-service solutions provider. A quick search on Google finds at least 47,000 companies using that one. That's full-service generic. There's more. Cost effective end-to-end solutions brings you about 95,000 results. Provider of value-added services nets you more than 600,000 matches. Exactly which services are sold as not adding value? Who writes this stuff? Worse, who reads it and approves it? What does it say when tens of thousands of companies are saying the same things about themselves?

Instantly translates and preserves the layout of Office documents using the Google Translate.

Compatible con documentos de word, excel, powerpoint y archivos en txt, OnlineDocTranslator usa el motor de Google Translate para traducir en varios idiomas los documentos de forma automática, sin necesidad de hacerlo párrafo a párrafo y sin miedo de perder el formato original.

David Foster Wallace

A complete list of words that David Foster Wallace circled in his American Heritage Dictionary.

definining words

例えば、"prepare"という言葉を、「準備する」と覚えちゃ駄目。"get ready"と覚えないと。そのためには、getを「深く」知らなければならない。このgetにsetを加えると、８割ぐらいの動詞は、動詞そのものではなく (get|set) + 名詞で言い換えられる。native usersもよく使うけど、名詞指向な日本語の話者には特にありがたい。

visualizing words

Very nice article on different writing systems.

The beauty of typography has no borders. While most of us work with the familiar Latin alphabet, international projects usually require quite extensive knowledge

Chinese, Japanese, Korean, Vietnamese, Arabic & Brahmic Characters

プログラミング。

Structure Synth は，文脈自由文法を使って 3D CG を作成するソフトウェア。つまるところ， Context Free の 3D 版だ。単純なプログラムから複雑な CG を生成することができる。 GI レンダラー SunFlow 用のシーンファイル出力にも対応しており，これらを組み合わせることによって，とてもお手軽かつ高品質な幾何 CG アート環境が完成する。 以下，とりあえず作ってみた習作。仕組みはほとんど Context Free と同じなので，Context Free に慣れていればすぐにコードを書けるようになる。 set maxdepth 50 12 * { rx 30 } RC BG rule RC { {} CROSS { rx 10 z 0.7 s 0.98 } RC } rule RC { {} CROSS { ry 10 z 0.7 s 0.98 } RC } rule RC { {} CROSS { rz 10 z 0.7 s 0.98 } RC } rule CROSS { { rx 90 s 2 0.3 0.3 } box { rz 90 s 2 0.3 0.3 } box { s 2 0.3 0.3 } box } rule BG { { s 0.1 100 100 x -10 } box }

Structure Synth Structure Synth は，文脈自由文法を使って 3D CG を作成するソフトウェア。つまるところ， Context Free の 3D 版

あとで使ってみよう

MindMap da Linguagem python 2.5, no formato flash.

Python language map

Annotated link http://www.diigo.com/bookmark/http%3A%2F%2Flifehacker.com%2F5539907%2Fa-savvy-travelers-guide-to-vacationing-abroad

Play vocabulary building games like Synonym Toastwith Word Girl and her buddy Captain Huggy Face, along with other word games in the Homework Hub and Teacher Online Activities.

Word Games - Synonym Toast, Rhyme Time, Funny Pages, Spelling Wizard.

Word girl website deals with reading skills in a fun way. It works with synonmys, rhyming, word games, and spelling help. This website would help with vocabulary and phonics. It is also a link to a number of great scholastic sites. k-4

readings with vocab lists

brief page description here

"We can make a market or we can take share from a market."

That's the choice most of us make when we launch a product or service. We can make a market or we can take share from a market. "This is just like the Gillette razor, but cheaper." "This has a touch screen, too, but you can get it from Verizon." "I'm a shiatsu massage therapist, the only one on this block." Those are 'taking' statements. They break a larger market into smaller bits. Compare to: "This is a sugared cereal for adults." "Our software enables you to find data and trends that no one else can find." "By combining protein and chocolate, we've developed a new food that's both dessert and dinner." These are 'making' statements. Riskier, sure, but they stand for something, they don't just steal share. The Dummies guides made a market, the Idiot's guides took from that market. You need to be clear with yourself and your team about which one you're after, because they bring different costs, different benefits and different time frames.

That's the choice most of us make when we launch a product or service. We can make a market or we can take share from a market. "This is just like the Gillette razor, but cheaper." "This has a touch screen, too, but you can get it from Verizon." "I'm a shiatsu massage therapist, the only one on this block." Those are 'taking' statements. They break a larger market into smaller bits. Compare to: "This is a sugared cereal for adults." "Our software enables you to find data and trends that no one else can find." "By combining protein and chocolate, we've developed a new food that's both dessert and dinner." These are 'making' statements. Riskier, sure, but they stand for something, they don't just steal share. The Dummies guides made a market, the Idiot's guides took from that market. You need to be clear with yourself and your team about which one you're after, because they bring different costs, different benefits and different time frames.

making markets v. taking markets

Seth's Blog:

These are 'making' statements. Riskier, sure, but they stand for something, they don't just steal share. The Dummies guides made a market, the Idiot's guides took from that market.

The obvious explanation for the mysterious Voynich Manuscript that has defied linguists and cryptographers.

xkcd - A Webcomic - #593: Voynich Manuscript

maps with the actual names translated

Photo Gallery: An Etymologist's View of the World

As you can see, the process of checking spellings and suggesting corrections is not an exact science, but there\'s no denying that it has made our lives a little easier and our publications a little less unpredictable.

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=745537

This is an update to an old series of jokes about computer languages being like cars. I've added some more modern languages to the list.

Assembly Language: you are the car.

And now, cars instead of religion. I'm beginning to be tired of the lies and misinformation spread about Perl; totally wrong!

Article on Globish (to go with podcast)

Meray sent me this!

New lingua franca upsets French

This article demonstrates the new trend in specialized English classes for business. The term 'globisch' reflects the globalization of business since the terms that are used are not an exact English. It is considered a dialect, which some of us may find ourselves teaching or interpreting at some point.

Globish has only 1,500 words and users must avoid humour, metaphor, abbreviation and anything else that can cause cross-cultural confusion.They must speak slowly and in short sentences.

Bernstein manifesto

правила русского языка

Очередной ресурс-находка. С правилами у меня ведётся постоянная война с переменным успехом. С Грамотой.Ру я так и не подружился по причине крайне убогого интерфейса, попробуем воспользоваться этим источником в борьбе за чистоту языка.

The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy followed. Words never meant very much to computers—which made them ten times more error-prone than humans. Humans expected that computer understanding of language would lead to artificially intelligent machines, inevitably and quickly. But the mispredicted words of speech recognition have rewritten that narrative. We just haven’t recognized it yet. In 2001 recognition accuracy topped out at 80%, far short of HAL-like levels of comprehension. Adding data or computing power made no difference. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University checked again in 2006 and found the situation unchanged. With human discrimination as high as 98%, the unclosed gap left little basis for conversation.

In passing, interesting-looking thing about why computers can't understand language.

link to scientific article which shows low accuracy of 2006 products

Speech recognition flatlined at 80% accuracy in 2001, and you'd be forgiven for concluding it will never get better: http://bit.ly/aoSCO0 – iconmaster (iconmaster) http://twitter.com/iconmaster/statuses/14370926269

The accuracy of computer speech recognition flat-lined in 2001, before reaching human levels. The funding plug was pulled, but no funeral, no text-to-speech eulogy followed. Words never meant very much to computers—which made them ten times more error-prone than humans. Humans expected that computer understanding of language would lead to artificially intelligent machines, inevitably and quickly. But the mispredicted words of speech recognition have rewritten that narrative. We just haven’t recognized it yet.

How to write technical documetns: overview, API document, walkthrough...

If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String.

String manages your language files - from PHP to PO to Rails to iPhone apps. Import and export easily.

RhinoSpike is an online language learning community tool that lets users around the globe connect and exchange foreign language audio files. Get any foreign language text read aloud for you by a native speaker!

Stanford

The New York Times recently published a list of 50 fancy words that most frequently stump their readership. They are able to measure this data thanks to a nifty in-page lookup mechanism, which you can try here. Try double-clicking the word “epicenter”.

6.14.2010.

A Arte da Ironia http://bit.ly/98dx8I

Formerly PLT/Dr Scheme

With Racket, you can script command shells and web servers; you can quickly prototype animations and complex GUIs; regexps and threads are here to serve you. To organize your systems, you can mix and match classes, modules or components. Best of all, you start without writing down types.

The beauty of writing systems is that each has something unique from which to draw inspiration. Two weeks ago, in the first part of this article, we covered Arabic and East-Asian languages (Chinese, Japanese, Korean and Vietnamese) and a few Indic scripts (Devanagari, Thai and Tibetan).

Learning and using new words can be one of the great pleasures of language. While university courses can help you to build your vocabulary, seeking out words, wordplay, and information is essential to becoming a true word nerd. These online tools can help you along, making it simple to learn new words, find out where they came from and just plain play with words.

For the last three years, I.B.M. scientists have been developing what they expect will be the world’s most advanced “question answering” machine, able to understand a question posed in everyday human elocution — “natural language,” as computer scientists call it — and respond with a precise, factual answer. In other words, it must do more than what search engines like Google and Bing do, which is merely point to a document where you might find the answer. It has to pluck out the correct answer itself.

long, but very interesting read on IBM's "answering machine": http://nyti.ms/czrluK - big data, parallel queries, etc... aka, google. – Ilya Grigorik (igrigorik) http://twitter.com/igrigorik/statuses/16866126164

There are many different languages in a programmer’s toolset, but there are only a handful that are most prominently used.

There are many different languages in a programmer's toolset, but there are only a handful that are most prominently used.

любопытная критическая статья о программировании как роде занятий и программистах как человеческих особях (можно разбирать на цитаты)

надо прочитать статью по программированию

The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention. Tattoo that on your forehead in reverse so that you always see it reflected in the screen.

"Cleverness cannot win. The only weapons we have are simplicity and convention" -- Jonathan Edwards http://bit.ly/bN6uNc – Kent Beck (KentBeck) http://twitter.com/KentBeck/statuses/14886605168

"cleverness cannot win": http://is.gd/cNTaE — крайне труднодоносимая до ярких крутых кодеров истина. – Иван Сагалаев (isagalaev) http://twitter.com/isagalaev/statuses/16088129633

Implementing a programming language is an experience no programmer should go without; the process fosters a deep understanding of computation, and beside that, it's fun!

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Writing a new programming Language

"I will repeat the important part for clarity: 'login' is not a verb. It's simply not." - http://loginisnotaverb.com/ (via @wordie)

There's a site explaining that "login" is *not* a word? http://bit.ly/9hbLFx #yougottabekidding (@cole007)

Despite what many people --mostly in the computer field-- think, "login" is not a verb. It's simply not. Whether or not "login" is a word at all may spark a debate in some circles, but assuming it is then it may act as many parts of speech, but not as a verb.

"I will repeat the important part for clarity: 'login' is not a verb. It's simply not." - http://loginisnotaverb.com/ (via @wordie)

There's a site explaining that "login" is *not* a word? http://bit.ly/9hbLFx #yougottabekidding (@cole007)

meh, two more blog posts analyzed by http://iwl.me results in Jonathan Swift & Stephen King. Methinks results a bit random. #unimpressed

"Check what famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers."

"Check what famous writer you write like with this statistical analysis tool, which analyzes your word choice and writing style and compares them to those of the famous writers. Any text in English will do: your latest blog post, journal entry, Reddit comment, chapter of your unfinished book, etc. For reliable results paste at least a few paragraphs (not tweets)."

I Write Like http://iwl.me/ your writing style is like... (via @catone)

Even in this example, I personally have no problem with using we.

#!/bin/bash weasels="many|various|very|fairly|several|extremely\ |exceedingly|quite|remarkably|few|surprisingly\ |mostly|largely|huge|tiny|((are|is) a number)\ |excellent|interestingly|significantly\ |substantially|clearly|vast|relatively|completely" wordfile="" # Check for an alternate weasel file if [ -f $HOME/etc/words/weasels ]; then wordfile="$HOME/etc/words/weasels" fi if [ -f $WORDSDIR/weasels ]; then wordfile="$WORDSDIR/weasels" fi if [ -f words/weasels ]; then wordfile="words/weasels" fi if [ ! "$wordfile" = "" ]; then weasels="xyzabc123"; for w in `cat $wordfile`; do weasels="$weasels|$w" done fi if [ "$1" = "" ]; then echo "usage: `basename $0` <file> ..." exit fi egrep -i -n --color "\\b($weasels)\\b" $* exit $?

Kill weasel words, avoid the passive, eliminate duplicates

Updated: http://techcrunch.com/2010/06/10/new-york-times-tweet/

RT @romenesko NYT tells staff: "Tweet" has yet to achieve the status of standard English -- so don't use it. http://is.gd/cK7JX – Steve Rubel (steverubel) http://twitter.com/steverubel/statuses/15850485557

Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet'

Ceci n'est pas une tweet. http://slate.me/breHfL The treachery of editorial standards, via @stevesilberman @hangingnoodles [from http://twitter.com/CircleReader/statuses/15857259604]

Phil Corbett, the latest standards editor at the Times (maybe the greatest job in the world?), has issued a proclamation! Yesterday, the following memo went out, asking writers to abstain from the invented past-tense and other weird iterations of the magical noun-verb "Twitter." His case isn't terrible, actually—and he offers this terrifying vision: "Someday, 'tweet' may be as common as 'e-mail.'" Oh dear. Well, read for yourself and decide.

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet' http://www.theawl.com/2010/06/new-york-times-bans-the-word-tweet – coryhaik (coryhaik) http://twitter.com/coryhaik/statuses/16169371772

New York Times Bans the word 'tweet' - out of spite? http://bit.ly/ah1f12 #NYT /via @hectorlima – naomi covacs (laconics) http://twitter.com/laconics/statuses/15928417052

'New York Times' Bans the Word 'Tweet' - The Awl http://bit.ly/aJB49T

Does language profoundly influence the way people see the world? http://bit.ly/cAtxU8 (via @SteveAkinsSEO @lindahollier)

This is an interesting article describing the differences of understanding in different languages.

Language is a uniquely human gift. When we study language, we are uncovering in part what makes us human, getting a peek at the very nature of human nature. As we uncover how languages and their speakers differ from one another, we discover that human natures too can differ dramatically, depending on the languages we speak. The next steps are to understand the mechanisms through which languages help us construct the incredibly complex knowledge systems we have. Understanding how knowledge is built will allow us to create ideas that go beyond the currently thinkable. This research cuts right to the fundamental questions we all ask about ourselves. How do we come to be the way we are? Why do we think the way we do? An important part of the answer, it turns out, is in the languages we speak.

Add: http://bit.ly/aRLx4F @nedkumar: ..how language influences the way people see the world. Lost in Translation http://bit.ly/ba7GUV

http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1543871