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Forvo
“All the words in the world pronounced by native speakers.”
audio  dictionary  reference  language 
february 2011 by matthewmcvickar
The Boston Globe: Watch and learn
How native-language subtitled music videos dramatically increased literacy in rural India. And there's a local professor here promoting the same SLS ('Same-language Subtitles') idea. Would be nice to talk to him.
language  music  video  musicvideo 
october 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Los Angeles Times: In defense of ‘Happy Days’’ ‘Jump the Shark’ episode
From the guy who wrote it.
happydays  tv  culture  america  history  trends  language 
september 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Sophiologist: Pres. Obama on Republicans in yesterday’s Labor Day speech in Milwaukee, 9/6/10
"These are the folks whose policies helped devastate our middle class. They drove our economy into a ditch. And we got in there and put on our boots and we pushed and we shoved and we were sweating and these guys were standing, watching us, sipping on a Slurpee."
republican  obama  president  metaphor  language  politics  government  history  america 
september 2010 by matthewmcvickar
Slate: "The rise of no homo and the changing face of hip-hop homophobia" by Jonah Weiner
"When these rappers say 'no homo,' it can seem a bit like a gentleman's agreement, nodding to the status quo while smuggling in a fuller, less hamstrung notion of masculinity. This is still a concession to homophobia, but one that enables a less rigid definition of the hip-hop self than we've seen before. It's far from a coup, but, in a way, it's progress."
music  language  sociology  hiphop  queer  homophobia 
august 2009 by matthewmcvickar
The Photographic Dictionary
Beautiful photographs to demonstrate words.
photography  words  language  inspiration  images  english  dictionary  design  art 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
The Phrontistery: Word List: Adjectives of Relation
"There are many terms which refer to a state of relating to or pertaining to a certain thing or category of things. Instead of using a phrase such as 'pertaining to buttercups', you can substitute the adjective 'ranunculaceous'. Using the admittedly invented phrase 'adjectives of relation', I have compiled 842 such terms."
writing  language  reference  english  linguistics  words  dictionary  adjectives 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
The AFU and Urban Legend Archive: Eskimo Words for Snow
Not exactly hundreds. But more than English.
reference  language  inuit  snow  eskimo 
february 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia: NATO phonetic alphabet
"The NATO phonetic alphabet, more formally the international radiotelephony spelling alphabet, is the most widely used spelling alphabet. ... The paramount reason is to ensure intelligibility of voice signals over radio links.
information  alphabet  language  military  nato  communication  speech  radio  linguistics  code  words  reference  history 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
National Hobo Museum
Check out the "Hobo Code" page.
hobo  culture  museum  america  language  society  people 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia : Hobo
hobo  culture  america  reference  language  society 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
McSweeney's Internet Tendency: The Elements of Spam (Jason Roeder)
"My wifesd*porcupine hot pix for u."
spam  humor  writing  technology  internet  language  english  satire  editing 
january 2009 by matthewmcvickar
NYTimes.com: The Buzzwords of 2008
A nicely designed list of the words of the year. Seems like half are from the election. Can't say I've ever heard of a "fish pedicure," but there it is.
design  politics  language  culture  america  usa  english  typography  2008  words  buzzwords  trends  people 
december 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Néojaponisme
A fantastic blog on Japanese language, literature, and culture. I revel in this. (And this is what a blog should be — written only so often, and every post is high-quality. Comments are few and long and educated and of very high quality themselves.)
japan  literature  language  japanese  culture  people  history  writing 
october 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Adactio: Funny how?
"It’s not X because it’s Y, it’s X because it looks like it’s X because it’s Y."
snowclone  humor  language  software  psychology 
july 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Anki
Spaced repetition! "Designed to help you remember facts (such as words and phrases in a foreign language) as easily, quickly and efficiently as possible. To do this, it tracks how well you remember each fact, and uses that info to schedule review times.
education  free  language  opensource  osx  software  japanese 
june 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Skeyelab Music: How to Speak Hip
"Now, it's very uncool to fall out in someone else's pad."
audio  culture  history  humor  language  satire 
march 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Chirag Mehta: US Presidential Speeches Tag Cloud
"The above tag cloud shows the popularity, frequency, and trends in the usages of words within speeches, official documents, declarations, and letters written by the Presidents of the US between 1776 - 2007."
politics  war  speech  writing  government  language 
january 2008 by matthewmcvickar
Numerical Adjectives, Greek and Latin Number Prefixes
In case you were wondering, the prefix for 19 is "decennov."
linguistics  language  Latin  numbers  reference 
december 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Pink Tentacle: Top 60 Japanese buzzwords of 2007
I.e.: "She spends her evenings reading manga and drinking at home alone, and she spends her weekends lazing around in bed. She’s a dried-fish woman." And whatever you do, do not miss the Bottom-Biting Bug.
culture  japan  japanese  language  media 
november 2007 by matthewmcvickar
BBC: Comedy: The Office Interviews: Gervais Explains UK Slang
"Confused by some of the references and slang in The Office? You may well be if you're a Yank." Ricky Gervais explains some twenty-odd slang terms on video.
humor  theoffice  uk  slang  language 
october 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Proceedings of the Athanasius Kircher Society: The Whistling Language of La Gomera
A language based on whistling confined to a small island. Has a vocabulary of over 4,000 words and is being taught in schools to prevent its extinction.
linguistics  language 
september 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Ill Doctrine: How To Rap In Three Languages
Impressive quadralingual freestyling.
rap  music  video  language  hiphop 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia: Culturally significant words and phrases from The Simpsons
Kwyjibo.
simpsons  tv  language  culture 
august 2007 by matthewmcvickar
sci.lang.japan
More or less a FAQ for the Usenet group, but plenty of great info.
japanese  language  usenet  newsgroup 
july 2007 by matthewmcvickar
A Simple Character Entity Chart
When you need the code for a special character.
webdevelopment  language  text  character  html  iso 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
OneLook Dictionary Search
Backwards dictionary, wildcards, and other useful tools.
dictionary  english  language 
june 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia: Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo.
"a grammatically correct sentence used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated constructs."
language  buffalo  humor 
january 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Japanese Sound effects and what they mean
anime  japanese  language  manga 
january 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Japanese for the Western Brain
language 
january 2007 by matthewmcvickar
Writing, Briefly
A very short essay on how to write well.
language  writing 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Fifty Writing Tips
writing  language 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Mentalcode.com: Icelandic
"This site contains an ever-growing set of study guides and tutorials for both serious students and casual enthusiasts of the language of the sagas. I add new lessons periodically."
icelandic  language  education 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Icelandic Online Dictionary and Readings
icelandic  language 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar
Type, handwriting, and lettering
Interesting pages on type design, cursive handwriting, teaching handwriting, etc.
language  design  icelandic 
march 2006 by matthewmcvickar
English/Japanese Flash Cards
"10,000 entry dictionary for beginning/intermediate students."
japan  language  education 
july 2005 by matthewmcvickar
500 Most Popular Kanji
japan  language  education 
july 2005 by matthewmcvickar
lifehack.org: Guide to Grammar and Writing
From the Capital Community College Foundation.
language  lifehack  writing  education 
july 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Omniglot
"A guide to written language (alphabets, hieroglyphs, Chinese characters, etc)." Excellent.
language 
june 2005 by matthewmcvickar
The Phrase Finder: "Beck and call"
"A 'beck' is a silent signal, such as a nod of the head or a motion with the forefinger." "In summoning a servant one might have to resort to a 'call' as well as a 'beck' if the servant did not see the beck or failed to respond to it."
language  history 
may 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Wikipedia: Kansai-ben
"a distinct group of related Japanese dialects found in the Kansai region of Japan."
japan  language 
may 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Australian Outback Supplies: Aussie Slang
language 
may 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Jabberwocky Variations
"Translations, parodies, and other variants of Lewis Carroll's 'Jabberwocky.'"
language  writing 
may 2005 by matthewmcvickar
The Straight Dope: Is it true "W" can be used as a vowel?
Yes and no.
language 
march 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Language Log: Unicode
"Life would be much simpler if there was a single, universal encoding that covered all of the characters in all of the writing systems in use." Enter Unicode.
language  technology 
january 2005 by matthewmcvickar
Language Log: Dude, no way
language 
december 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Language Log: A Milli Vanilli president?
Regarding the bulge in Bush's shirt during the debate.
politics  language 
october 2004 by matthewmcvickar
International Talk Like A Pirate Day: How To
Arrrrrrrrrrrrrr!
humor  language 
september 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Linguistics prof. George Lakoff dissects the conservative agenda.
"Why did we go into Iraq without a peace plan? Without properly equipping our troops? Without our allies?" Brilliance.
politics  war  language 
august 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Wired News: It's Just the 'internet' Now
"Why? The simple answer is because there is no earthly reason to capitalize any of these words."
web  language  writing 
august 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Acronyms list
"This is a list composed primarily of acronyms. It was originally compiled for the computer industry, but you know how creeping featurism can be."
language 
august 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Language Log: Iraqi chicken
"Why did the Iraqi Chicken cross the road?" -- Detailing the problems of translation in Iraq.
language 
july 2004 by matthewmcvickar
The Atlantic: '"To Be" in Their Bonnets' by Cullen Murphy
"Advocates of E-Prime, for reasons I'll come to, favor the elimination in English of every form of the verb "to be"."
language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Common Errors in English
"Here we’re concerned only with deviations from the standard use of English as judged by sophisticated users such as professional writers, editors, teachers, and literate executives and personnel officers."
language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
"Thirty-eight dishonest tricks which are commonly used in argument, with the methods of overcoming them"
"The study of crooked thinking is, however, an essential preliminary to this problem of judging the soundness of an argued case."
people  language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
How to say "Oh my god! There's an axe in my head," in various languages.
"The Web's #1 Axe In My Head Page."
humor  language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Intelligencer: Hard-to-pronounce New York names
people  language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
The Quack-Project
"Discover the different sounds that ducks, horses, pigs, cows, frogs and cockerels make in different languages."
language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
Open Brackets: Getting and spending
Words both good and bad.
language 
june 2004 by matthewmcvickar
"Kaze Wo Atsumete" by Happy End translated to English
Song featured on "Lost in Translation" soundtrack
music  language  japan 
may 2004 by matthewmcvickar

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