Pinboard: bookmarks for joeclark tagged 'linguistics'

Assuming we start counting at 1 (native speaker) 2 (their kids, unilingual in dominant language only), and 3 (speaks dominant language, sees no stigma in ancestral language)

linguistics minoritylanguages language ladefoged endangeredlanguages Безѹмниѥ
may 2009 by joeclark

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Why learning Arabic is so hard
Arabic linguistics language slate
april 2009 by joeclark

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Translated joual dialogue from ‘Trainspotting’
trainspotting linguistics translation joual français French français-québécois
february 2006 by joeclark

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Original Scottish dialogue from ‘Trainspotting’
trainspotting scots English linguistics translation
february 2006 by joeclark

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Definition and elucidation of ‘skiamorph’

From ancient ‘Globe and Mail’ article

words skiamorph linguistics lexicography skiamorphs
february 2006 by joeclark

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Dictionary citation for ‘Corpse’

Meaning ‘CBC’

cbc corpse linguistics lexicography doubletongued
february 2006 by joeclark

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Dictionary citation for ‘standardista’

I can only trace it back to 2003. Can you go farther back?

standardista lexicography linguistics doubletongued
february 2006 by joeclark

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With Sound From Africa, the Phonetic Alphabet Expands
ipa linguistics africa i18n l10n phonology notation
january 2006 by joeclark

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Minority Languages, Multimedia and the Web

In ‘New Review of Hypermedia and Multimedia’

linguistics web multimedia
january 2006 by joeclark

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Voyage in Catalonia

One fellow’s observations about Catalan use in Spain

catalan spain linguistics españa welikesheep inversion spanish español
january 2006 by joeclark

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Oded Ezer – experimental Hebrew typography

Love this guy’s shit

hebrew linguistics type typography odedezer
january 2006 by joeclark

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Request for feedback: Usefulness of ::first-letter in non-Latin scripts
i18n l10n internationalization localization linguistics ishida rishida
january 2006 by joeclark

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Stupid machine-generated spiritual blather

Site uses machine-generated text on all pages, apparently to game Google

linguistics google languagelog glossolalia
january 2006 by joeclark

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The Eggcorn Database

Malapropisms (copyright/copywritten, for example)

eggcorn linguistics English
january 2006 by joeclark

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Dinosaur Comics: ‘Begging the Question’
begthequestion beggingthequestion linguistics English T-Rex
january 2006 by joeclark

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Jewish Language Research Website
linguistics Hebrew Jewish jewish-languages
january 2006 by joeclark

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Jon Udell: Heavy metal umlaut: the movie

Overlong Flash slideshow with narration; discusses origin and typography of n-umlaut

umlaut heavymetalumlaut linguistics wikipedia
december 2005 by joeclark

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Interrobang?! — Interrobang!?
type typography linguistics mstypo
december 2005 by joeclark

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Canadian English should be used at Toronto City hall, Moscoe bleats

This presupposes an accurate and functional MS Office Canadian dictionary that isn’t simply a duplication of the U.K. English dictionary

English CanadianEnglish linguistics msoffice lexicography
december 2005 by joeclark

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All Hail ‘Podcasting’: More also-rans for the 2005 WOTY
OUP English lexicography linguistics podcasting neologisms
december 2005 by joeclark

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Double-Tongued Word Wrester Dictionary

New or fringe English words

lexicography English linguistics doubletongued monickels
december 2005 by joeclark

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ConScript Unicode Registry

‘The purpose of the ConScript Unicode Registry (CSUR) is to coordinate the assignment of blocks out of the Unicode Private Use Area... to constructed/artificial scripts, including scripts for constructed/artificial languages’

unicode linguistics
december 2005 by joeclark

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Localization Considerations in DTD Design

By Richard Ishida. Leave room for notes from translators, use structures rather than presentation, allow some elements to be translated, allow for untranslatable terms

i18n l10n ishida linguistics xml dtd
december 2005 by joeclark

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The Challenges of Multilingual Web Design

‘In Portuguese, that would be W-W-W-ponto-E-A-R-J-ponto-com-ponto-B-R-barra-barra’

pt-br i18n l10n portugues portuguese unfitforprint linguistics
november 2005 by joeclark

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Diacritics Project

Learn about diacritics for fonts (which are easy to flub)

diacritics typedesign linguistics
november 2005 by joeclark

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Ar brezhoneg zo bev

Variants of Breton