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Learn to read Korean in 15 minutes (8 photos)

Ryan Estrada - Google+ - Did you know that you can learn to read Korean in just 15…

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7 weeks ago by fjordaan

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Hearing Bilingual - How Babies Tell Languages Apart - NYTimes.com

But there is more and more research to draw on, reaching back to infancy and even to the womb. As the relatively new science of bilingualism pushes back to the origins of speech and language, scientists are teasing out the earliest differences between brains exposed to one language and brains exposed to two.

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october 2011 by fjordaan

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Anglo-EU Translation Guide

@twittaress I dunno, it's not on my usual cheatsheet

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june 2011 by fjordaan

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Translation Party

Start with an English phrase: [Find equilibrium]

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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The Science Creative Quarterly » A DIALOGUE WITH SARAH, AGED 3: IN WHICH IT IS SHOWN THAT IF YOUR DAD IS A CHEMISTRY PROFESSOR, ASKING “WHY” CAN BE DANGEROUS

The dangers of asking Why? when your dad's a chemistry teacher /via @owenblacker

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Learn Japanese on YouTube

The collection of videos below will provide you with enough knowledge to manage a basic conversation in Japanese.

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Hiragana and Katakana practice

Practice your knowledge of Japanese alphabets

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february 2011 by fjordaan

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Phatic - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

In linguistics, a phatic expression (pronounced /ˈfætɨk/) is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information.[1] The term was coined by anthropologist Bronisław Malinowski in the early 1900s.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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Our Desperate, 250-Year-Long Search for a Gender-Neutral Pronoun | The Awl

All of which brings us to the backstory of the Fourteenth Amendment, and to the thorny history of gender-neutral language in English. Prescriptive grammarians have been calling for "he" as the gender-neutral pronoun of choice since at least 1745, when a British schoolmistress named Anne Fisher laid down the law in A New Grammar.

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january 2011 by fjordaan

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What is Wrong in Strunk & White's "Elements of Style?" - English Language and Usage - Stack Exchange

We've been told that The Elements of Style has been “Roundly criticized by academic linguists” (plural), and that much of its content is “flat-out wrong or totally misleading”, but not one example has been given, and the only reference presented so far is the essay by Mr. Pullum. That reference demands a response, and since the actual students of language here have not chimed in, I feel I must say something.

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october 2010 by fjordaan

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English Language and Usage - Stack Exchange

English Language and Usage is a collaboratively edited question and answer site for people who love English Language and Usage. It's 100% free, no registration required.

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october 2010 by fjordaan

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Geek Sauce | Don't You Know The Queen's English?

Hey there, wanna cyber?

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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SSRN-Fuck by Christopher Fairman

This Article is as simple and provocative as its title suggests: it explores the legal implications of the word fuck. The intersection of the word fuck and the law is examined in four major areas: First Amendment, broadcast regulation, sexual harassment, and education. The legal implications from the use of fuck vary greatly with the context. To fully understand the legal power of fuck, the nonlegal sources of its power are tapped. Drawing upon the research of etymologists, linguists, lexicographers, psychoanalysts, and other social scientists, the visceral reaction to fuck can be explained by cultural taboo. Fuck is a taboo word. The taboo is so strong that it compels many to engage in self-censorship. This process of silence then enables small segments of the population to manipulate our rights under the guise of reflecting a greater community. Taboo is then institutionalized through law, yet at the same time is in tension with other identifiable legal rights. Understanding this relationship between law and taboo ultimately yields fuck jurisprudence.

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june 2010 by fjordaan

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Online Etymology Dictionary

This is a map of the wheel-ruts of modern English. Etymologies are not definitions; they're explanations of what our words meant and how they sounded 600 or 2,000 years ago.

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march 2010 by fjordaan

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A List Apart, in Arabic: Q&A with the Creators

This week saw the launch of Arabic A List Apart, an official version of the standard-setting A List Apart Magazine, which has been exploring “the design, development, and meaning of web content” for more than a decade. Delighted by the announcement of the launch of the Arabic version—and intrigued by what it could mean for the future of Arabic web design and development—I asked if the creators could give us a little background on how the project came about and what to expect going forward.

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february 2010 by fjordaan

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A short collection of long German words

This is the current champion (this is the name of a law that has to do with how beef is labeled):

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november 2009 by fjordaan

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Double-Tongued Dictionary

A growing lexicon of fringe English, focusing on slang, jargon, and new words.

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october 2009 by fjordaan

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apophenia: Twitter: "pointless babble" or peripheral awareness + social grooming?

Studies like this one by Pear Analytics drive me batty. They concluded that 40.55% of the tweets they coded are pointless babble; 37.55% are conversational; 8.7% have "pass along value"; 5.85% are self-promotional; 3.75% are spam; and ::gasp:: only 3.6% are news.

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september 2009 by fjordaan

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Arabic (Persian, Hebrew ... ) script support

# Arabic script support

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august 2009 by fjordaan

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Website Language Selection - ZigPress

You will all have visited websites that present their content in more than one language - and they allow you to select the language in some way. Right now I’m struggling to find examples, but here are some of the more common options:

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july 2009 by fjordaan

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Home - Royal Philips

Bookmarked as good example of country/language selector

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july 2009 by fjordaan

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50 Years of Stupid Grammar Advice - ChronicleReview.com

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.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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Scratch

Scratch is a new programming language that makes it easy to create your own interactive stories, animations, games, music, and art -- and share your creations on the web.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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CleverCSS

CleverCSS is a small markup language for CSS inspired by Python that can be used to build a style sheet in a clean and structured way. In many ways it's cleaner and more powerful than CSS2 is.

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april 2009 by fjordaan

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BBC - Voices - The Voices Recordings

The clips are drawn from the Voices recordings – which capture 1,200 people in conversation. Some of the clips are people talking about language – slang, dialect, taboo words, accents. Other clips cover all sorts of subjects and simply offer a flavour of how we talk today.

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november 2008 by fjordaan

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languagehat.com: GHOTI.

I imagine most of you are familiar with the old wheeze about fish being spelled ghoti, with gh pronounced as in laugh, o as in women, and ti as in nation. It's regularly attributed to Shaw, but no one has ever found it in his writings, and it turns out, that that's because it goes back before he was born

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april 2008 by fjordaan

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GrammarBlog - A blog about spelling, punctuation and grammar - Grammar Blog

Do you grind your teeth when you pass "Martins Kebab's"? Do you think people who don't know the difference between "your" and "you're" should be strung up by their gonads? You do? Welcome to GrammarBlog.

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april 2008 by fjordaan

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AskOxford: Frequently Asked Questions

We have built a database of some of the questions sent in to the Oxford Word and Language Service team, so it is likely that if your question is a fairly broad one on grammar, usage, or words then it will be answered here. Simply choose a category and then browse the list of questions.

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december 2007 by fjordaan

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Sanjeev's Art and Letters Archive

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