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How to Write a Spelling Corrector
Another lovely little programming exercise by Peter Norvig
lang  nlp  cs  google  norvig  python 
june 2009 by maciej
Читать книгу Кухонные фразеологизмы, Легостаев Андрей
great collection of kitchen-related Russian proverbs and sayings with etymology and lots of fun facts
proverb  lang  russian  folklore  cult  ru 
october 2006 by maciej
Mafalda in Chinese
notes on translating a classic Argentine comic strip into Chinese
argentina  china  translation  comics  lang  cult 
august 2006 by maciej
Japanese Culture FAQ
Highly entertaining and informative
faq  japan  cult  lang 
june 2006 by maciej
Newswise | Backs to the Future
really stupid sapir/whorf-type article about a language in the andes where people gesture behind them to indicate the future. Considering how memory works, this is actually quite logical - you can only see the past
lang  blather  grr  linguistics  chile  etym 
june 2006 by maciej
languagehat.com: GAN: WHODUNNIT?
the mystery of why this word is consistently translated as 'fuck' in chinglish
chinglish  chinese  lang  ha  etym 
june 2006 by maciej
Haiwang’s Chinese Learning Blog
uneven but interesting blog from a chinese teacher
chinese  lang  blog 
may 2006 by maciej
languagehat.com: THE CHINESE WRITTEN CHARACTER AS A MEDIUM FOR BALDERDASH.
Why is there this craving to see Chinese as some sort of weird Forbidden City? It's just a language, much like any other; it happens to be written with a more complicated set of graphs than most
essay  chinese  language  orientalism  cool  lang  linguistics  writing 
may 2006 by maciej
Burushaski language
language isolate in northern pakistan
lang  linguistics  pakistan 
may 2006 by maciej
Khitan [qìdān] - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
extinct manchurian ethnic group that gave China its russian (kitaj) and archaic English (cathay) name
etym  ethnography  lang  hist  china  russian  mongol  siberia  manchuria 
may 2006 by maciej
SinoCamps :: 2 Weeks intensive Mandarin Chinese bootcamps
seems like a neat and relatively cheap ($500) immersion program out in the mountains
chinese  language  immersion  hebei  program  lang  travel 
may 2006 by maciej
Hungarian Formative Suffixes
handy guide to suffixes in everyone's favorite agglutinative moon language
linguistics  lang  reference  grammar  hu  morphology  hungarian 
may 2006 by maciej
Avoidance speech - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
some australian languages had a whole other lexicon you would use within earshot of taboo relatives
wtf  lang  linguistics  australia  cult  cool  ethno 
may 2006 by maciej
Chinese language learning podcast thing
slate review of little topical episodes at four levels of difficulty
chinese  audio  review  lang 
april 2006 by maciej
Without English, Inmate Was Trapped
man unable to find speaker of his exotic language to alert authorities that, hey, he's been in jail six months
aargh  us  lang  politics  jail  idiot 
april 2006 by maciej
Guaraní language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
State language of Paraguay; only native american language to be spoken predominantly by non-indigeneous people
lang  americas  paraguay  guaraní 
february 2006 by maciej
Romance copula - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
twin verbs for "to be" in romance languages and their origin
linguistics  lang  spanish 
february 2006 by maciej
Юмор | Третий путь - More sovietism
Partiya skazala 'nado' / Komsomol otvetil - est'
ha  cccp  lang  russian  ru  sov 
november 2005 by maciej
Dictionary of Ichthyology
who knows when you might need one
dict  reference  fish  obsess  lang  english 
november 2005 by maciej
Słownik wyrazów obcych Władysława Kopalińskiego
handy online Polish dictionary of foreign borrowings
dict  pl  reference  lang  etym 
july 2005 by maciej
List of collective nouns by subject A-H:
includes spurious, dubious, and real ones
lang  english  obsess 
july 2005 by maciej
John Paul II- Encyclicals with Study Tool
comprehensive full text of JPII encyclicals
jeebus  church  lang 
april 2005 by maciej
The Hardest NYT Crossword
allegedly the most difficult nyt crossword ever published
game  lang  nyc 
april 2005 by maciej
Romanian Etymological Dictionary
sadly only the first two letters are online
lang  romanian  etym 
march 2005 by maciej
humble Farmer: Maine Public Radio
Radio show with addictive example of old-time Maine accent
cool  music  lang 
january 2005 by maciej
Fishdictionary - Fisklexikon
Polylingual fishchart - a promising starting place
fish  lang  translation 
november 2004 by maciej
Sample of French l33tspeak
rap discussion forum, interesting phonetic spellings
french  lang 
november 2004 by maciej
Ne explétif - French Expletive Ne
Yet another fine point of french grammar, non-negative 'ne' for comparisons and other uses. "Point of interest - these all take the subjunctive"
french  grammar  lang 
november 2004 by maciej
Online Etymology Dictionary
"To ride shotgun is 1963, from Old West stagecoach custom in the movies."
english  lang  etym 
november 2004 by maciej
Non-Indo-European Cognates of Slavic Words
Abstract to an interesting sounding linguistics paper by Reshetnikov that I cannot find online
lang  slav  etym 
november 2004 by maciej
AATSEEL 2003 Preliminary Program
links to a large number of interesting abstracts on slavic literature and linguistics
culture  lang  lit  russian  slav 
november 2004 by maciej
Origins of 'kobieta' (poss.)
polish excerpt + translation on origins of 'kobieta'
lang  polish 
november 2004 by maciej
University of Alaska at Fairbanks Catalog: Eskimo
Some courses and resources in Eskimo languages
eskimo  lang  weird 
november 2004 by maciej
languagehat.com
Cool language related-blog
blog  cool  lang 
november 2004 by maciej
i18n - Writing for the world
concise draft intro to internationalization issues
book  il8n  lang  nlp  unicode 
october 2004 by maciej
Russian stemming algorithm
Explication of the Russian stemming (not lemmatization) algo used in snowball
book  lang  nlp  russian  snowball 
october 2004 by maciej
Outline of the Japanese Writing System
description of how japanese works to non-speakers
book  cjk  lang  nlp 
october 2004 by maciej
Chinese, Japanese, Korean references
Excellent reference page on CJK languages for information retrieval
book  cjk  ir  lang  nlp 
october 2004 by maciej
Korean NLP at Penn Home Page
resources on korean nlp at the university of pennsylvania
korean  lang  nlp 
october 2004 by maciej
PREL - PALM: Chuukese
chuukese language learning materials
lang  pacific  weird 
october 2004 by maciej
Linguist's Search Engine
non bag-of-words search engine for exploring linguistic features
book  ir  lang  nlp  grocklebar 
october 2004 by maciej
Language Log: They are a prophet
Singular 'they' usage becoming popular for unsexed antecedents
en  lang  usage 
october 2004 by maciej
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