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Why Arabic is Terrific
august 2011 by threedaymonk
‘This idea is so cool that you'd think it came from a constructed language, and yet Arabic has actual native speakers who live completely normal lives and will not try to talk to you about Runescape.’
linguistics
languages
arabic
august 2011 by threedaymonk
Find kanji by radicals - Denshi Jisho
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Attractive and handy.
japanese
dictionary
kanji
reference
languages
august 2009 by threedaymonk
Some common solecisms
april 2007 by threedaymonk
The Economist’s style guide.
english
reference
languages
april 2007 by threedaymonk
Across cultures, English is the word
april 2007 by threedaymonk
‘It is the common language in almost every endeavor, from science to air traffic control to the global jihad, where it is apparently the means of communication between speakers of Arabic and other languages.’
languages
english
linguistics
april 2007 by threedaymonk
‘Mr Ocalan’ conviction in Turkey
march 2007 by threedaymonk
Six months for calling someone ‘Mr’; eighteen for writing campaign materials in Kurdish … I guess they've given up on that whole EU ambition.
news
turkey
politics
languages
kurdish
eu
march 2007 by threedaymonk
The Qu programming language
august 2006 by threedaymonk
An OO language with a JIT compiler; seems to resemble Python.
languages
programming
qu
ruby
python
august 2006 by threedaymonk
Afrikaans
june 2006 by threedaymonk
Possibly the world's youngest language.
languages
linguistics
afrikaans
june 2006 by threedaymonk
French phrases
april 2006 by threedaymonk
‘Would you stop spitting on me while you're talking!’
humour
languages
french
april 2006 by threedaymonk
CLEF and Multilingual information retrieval
march 2006 by threedaymonk
Stopword lists and stemming algorithms for a variety of natural languages.
languages
software
march 2006 by threedaymonk
A Language is a Dialect with an Army
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Or, in the original Yiddish: ‘A shprakh iz a diyalekt mit an armey un a flot.’
languages
yiddish
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Shanghainese Introduction
february 2006 by threedaymonk
‘This site aims to fill the void created by the lack of formal education in and on Shanghainese.’
languages
shanghainese
shanghai
china
february 2006 by threedaymonk
Uniting China to Speak Mandarin
july 2005 by threedaymonk
China: one country, two systems, and hundreds of languages!
china
languages
chinese
july 2005 by threedaymonk
POPjisyo.com
march 2005 by threedaymonk
Dictionary Translation Japanese/Chinese/Korean/Kanji/Hanzi
languages
dictionary
japanese
chinese
korean
march 2005 by threedaymonk
Palaeography tutorial (how to read old handwriting)
february 2005 by threedaymonk
Reference and tutorials
languages
february 2005 by threedaymonk
pulmonic consonants
january 2005 by threedaymonk
Flash app demonstrating the range of consonants
languages
january 2005 by threedaymonk
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