A language coming out of Google. Rob Pike and Ken Thompson are two of the guys behind the project, and they are both old school badass UNIX dudes.

Would Joe Clark's site be as awesome if he wasn't such a curmudgeon.

Translates a phrase to Japanese and back again, repeating this process till the translations match. (It's easier to understand if you try it out.)

I think between BlogTO and Torontoist, i\'ve found Torontoist editorializes in a more obnoxious way. (I think when they first started I found BlogTO more annoying.) I liked Tiff\'s post on Quebec.

As far as I can tell, Americans are more afraid of Spanish then they are of the Terrorists. Seriously.

An interesting article on language. Norway works quite hard to help try and bring peace to Sri Lanka, a country where people are fighting essentially over issues of language.

You can use the same advice for other languages you might want to write in.

Now you can find out.

People from all over the world speaking the same phrase.