"Guy Steele's keynote at the 1998 ACM OOPSLA conference on "Growing a Language" discusses the importance of and issues associated with designing a programming language that can be grown by its users."

"So if a new language feature L needs changes in a set of chapters S, the complexity of L is [image_resource] where degree(S) is the number of cross-references between chapters necessary to fully describe L. An approximation of this factor is P(S,2) - note a permutation not a choice because a forward reference and a backward reference each add complexity."

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Targets Scandinavian languages

Detailed look at collecting names via forms in various languages.

Well there's a text corpus I haven't seen yet...

A David Foster Wallace article dripping with the usual hubris over language issues. Still a facinating read.

Weblog terminology translated across English, Spanish, French, Portuguese, Galician, German.

"33,000 words, grouped by meaning. Each word is given the average color of web images found when searching for that term. You can see clusters of words related to plants, flesh, food, and water. Some specific clusters are shown below."