Do Libertarians in Croatia believe that Croatian and Serbian are the same language, like left-wingers believe? Or do they believe they are different languages, like right-wingers do? Do Libertarians believe that Illyrian was a centum language or do they believe that it was a satem language? As far as I understand it, after the Serbian government committed the Kosovo genocide in the 1990s, right-wingers in Croatia consider it "politically incorrect" (not really the term they use, but it seems ...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
Interpreters are sworn, and they can't translate sentences treacherously. It's what I'm believing being sure to start this question. But a few weeks ago, an envoy used the translation services of the foreign country he was in (the ones provided by the government of that country) to negotiate*, instead of coming with his own interpreter, as is expected. Apart from the surprise he caused, what are the concrete risks he could face by doing so? --- *Trump envoy relied on Kremlin interpreter in me...| Recent Questions - Politics Stack Exchange
“Why would what died once keep on dying off / Over & over like a seam in an old velvet coat?” — Lucie Brock-BroidoRelated posts: I Know You Think I’ve Forgotten by Jane Hirshfield Radio by Mark Kirschen My death is not a song by Mohammed Moussa| Read A Little Poetry
“What am I missing? I ask / patting my chest / pocket. // and I am missing everything living / that won’t come with me / into this sunny afternoon” — Max RitvoRelated posts: Leaving the House by Yanyi Autumn Day by Rainer Maria Rilke On the Motion of Animals by Camille Rankine| Read A Little Poetry
“by the way thank You for / keeping Your face hidden, I / can hardly bear the beauty of this world.” — Franz WrightRelated posts: The Poem by Franz Wright Fire by Robert Creeley The Falling by Jane Hirshfield| Read A Little Poetry
“maybe there is soul under everything, / even when we strike rock first.” — Irène MathieuRelated posts: Sentences Toward Birds by Robert Grenier [You darkness, that I come from,] by Rainer Maria Rilke Prayer Bones by Ian William Douglas| Read A Little Poetry
On a car journey on which they'd otherwise have been fighting, the kids helped me start a collection of heterophonic homonyms - words that are spelled the same but have different pronunciations and meanings. I've got nine of them now in English, and maybe two in other languages... can you help me find some more?| Dan Q
Native Americans And The Bible| Biblical Authority Ministries
Demystifying DSLs Part II : A Working Definition Domain-specific Languages (DSLs) are everywhere, but there is precious little consensus on a working definition to describe them. Academic conferences about DSLs turn to the presentation of ever more abstract tools aimed at simplifying the task of implementing DSLs, or the enumeration of more and more exotic [...] The post Demystifying DSLs Part II : A Working Definition appeared first on Raincode Labs.| Raincode Labs
In today’s global business environment, delivering data insights in the right language is more than a convenience, it’s a necessity. Sigma’s localization and language translation features are designed to empower users across different regions to access dashboards and analytics in their native language, promoting better...| InterWorks
A constructed language or “conlang” is a language that an individual or group has deliberately created with a purpose in mind, as opposed to languages that have arisen naturally. Today, when most people today hear this term, they think immediately of languages used in works of fiction, such as J. R. R. Tolkien’s Elvish language … Continue reading "What Was the First Conlang?" The post What Was the First Conlang? appeared first on Tales of Times Forgotten.| Tales of Times Forgotten
“when you put your hand / on my thigh it was like i knew for the first time / why god gave us thighs. why god gave us hands.” — José Olivarez| Read A Little Poetry
I added support for Hawaiian to Yomitan, a pop-up browser based dictionary. I originally learnt Hawaiian on Duolingo in 2016. Then I spent a few years learning Japanese and now I am writing / updating Japanese learning software to work with Hawaiian 🥳 What is Yomitan? Yomitan is a browser extension pop| Skerritt.blog
Despite saying several times that I should write about other topics than linguistics, I always find myself going back to this topic in one way or another. And this time my niche interests lead me t…| VOICES
The U.S. Department of State has announced the 2025 finalists for its Critical Language Scholarship (CLS) Program, and three University of Tulsa students have been named recipients. Lilah Jacobs (Chinese (Mandarin) Intermediate), Brianna Marshall (Japanese Beginning), and JT Wong (Korean Beginning) will receive support to study their selected languages. “Earning a position as a CLS […]| The University of Tulsa
For many university students, learning a new language is a key part of their college experience and a requirement for their degree. For one UTulsa sophomore, however, it is not just a requirement, it is a passion. Growing up in Houston, Texas, Anastasia Small was exposed to multiple languages from a young age. Small attended […]| The University of Tulsa
Rarely do careers follow perfectly linear paths. For Hillary Sweeney, her journey from an undergraduate studying political science and Spanish to an attorney at the U.S. Department of Defense was shaped by unexpected opportunities, mentors, and solid groundwork at The University of Tulsa. Sweeney grew up in suburban St. Louis, earning her bachelor’s degree in […]| The University of Tulsa
The Open Library of Humanities journal (OLHJ) is looking for abstracts for a special collection on Language Diversity in Game Studies: The first aim of this issue is to increase our knowledge of language... Der Beitrag [CfP] Language Diversity in Games Studies erschien zuerst auf Language at Play.| Language at Play
When I met my girlfriend, one year ago, she had already been living here, in Spain, for over 2 years. She can speak Spanish, and she did it through our first...| My honest life
Update: read the comments at Hacker News to see some succinct approaches to this, as discussed by gjm11, qntm and patio11. Thanks to Robin for providing this demonstration that can find a regex for testing divisibility of any number, in any base (he also made the code available, nice). Earlier| alexbowe.com
I’m a serial tinkerer and project starter, which means I end up leaving a trail of half-finished (or half-started) projects everywhere I go. If it’s not new projects, I’ll drop in to some existing project and make some changes, then forget about them for months or sometimes years. Thankfully for a long time I’ve kept all my projects in a consistent location: ~/Projects so they’re not hard to keep track of, but that does mean I have to actually go...| willhbr.net
Looking for Engaging Activities for World Language Classrooms? Here Are 25 Interactive Ideas!| BookWidgets
A decade ago, at a noisy Irish bar, I struggled to understand a colleague's accent, leading to an awkward encounter. If only AI-powered headphones had existed then! These magical University of Washington creations can isolate a speaker's voice in a cacophony, preventing future embarrassing mishaps. Here's to clearer conversations and fewer confused looks!| Petros Amoiridis
Photo by Dan Meyers on Unsplash People talk about a global ecological crisis, a climate crisis, an economic crisis, an institutional crisis, a pandemic, and a mental health crisis. These crises are…| Jorn Bettin
Discover the essential role of modal verbs in English grammar and how they enhance your writing and communication skills.| Best Writing
Large Language Models have transformed how we interact with text, offering capabilities that seemed like science fiction just a few years ago. They can write poetry, generate code, and engage in sophisticated reasoning. Yet surprisingly, one seemingly straightforward task – document translation – remains a significant challenge. This is a challenge I understand intimately, both as a developer and as a historian who has spent years working with multilingual primary sources. Before the era ...| Alex Strick van Linschoten
It is common to hear language learners say that they speak more fluently when in a state of inebriation. Here's how drinking really affects your learning.| Brainscape Academy
If you are a beginner or intermediate language learner, you'll learn faster by actually speaking that language than simply listening to it. Find out why!| Brainscape Academy
In this guide, we smash 10 popular language myths that could be derailing your language learning journey, or even preventing you from embarking entirely.| Brainscape Academy
Your list of all the resources you need to learn a foreign language FAST and never forget it. This is the best way to learn a language online.| Brainscape Academy
This article examines an observation about “languages”: a duality between first-order and second-order expressions.| Guillaume Lethuillier's blog
Each year, the U.S. Department of State awards the nationally competitive Benjamin A. Gilman International Scholarships, which enable undergraduate| The University of Tulsa
This is an update to my december adventure, in which I took it upon myself to learn the Rust programming langauge.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
This December I’m off to a great personal adventure in programming. Everyone can have their own fun December Adventure. You pick something you want to do, or maybe learn, and you do a little of it everyday, as long as it involves some coding.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
Java is good by modern standards, from a technical perspective, the platform having received a lot of improvements from Java 8 to 17. Unfortunately, it still stinks, and the problem is its “enterprise” culture.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
I’ve just spent over a day, going to sleep at 1:00 am, to upgrade dependencies and fix eviction warnings in the build of a Scala project.| Alexandru Nedelcu - Blog
The fundamental mismatch between hierarchical anthropocentric ideologies and cultures that embrace conscious collaborative niche construction beyond the human can not be over-emphasised. The former…| Jorn Bettin
It’s time for another Gleam release! This time as well as taking a look at what’s new in the compiler, we’re going to take a look at what’s new in the wider Gleam ecosystem too.| lpil
Version v0.10 of the Gleam programming language has been released! Let's take a look at what's new.| lpil
Version v0.9 of the Gleam programming language has been released! Let's take a look at what's new.| lpil.uk
In many editions of D&D, everyone learns a handful of languages at character creation, and then either never thinks about them again or never has the one they need. I propose an alternative, with 5e as a base.| The Benign Brown Beast
This post is a response to Xaosseed's post Your great-grand-elf's elvish: long lives slowing language change (RPG Blog Carnival). I suggest reading that first in its entirety, before I dig into it.| Elemental Reductions
A blog applying the wisdom of the Kotzker Rebbe to contemporary Jewish issues.| www.kotzkblog.com
My experiences with using my phone in Russian for 1 year.| Blog
A description of how to export Anki statistics by directly hacking the Anki desktop client.| Blog
Results of the experiment to learn Italian autodidactically for one month.| Blog
Gaia is facing a metacrisis. But humanity is primarily facing a crisis of institutions and collective imagination. Many of us would be unable to recognise a healthy human scale cultural organism if…| Jorn Bettin
How to pick a tool, language, or framework when real money and the business is at stake. What to consider when faced with this kind of situation.| Alexandru Burlacu
Some users have complained that the player names shown in SmartGo One are not what they’re used to. For example, they may be used to Lee Sedol, while SmartGo shows that player as Yi Se-tol. SmartGo knows about the alternate spelling, and you could already search for Lee Sedol to find his games, but they … Continue reading Player Names and Mini-Biographies→| smartgo.blog
“it's summer again and the undulant rows / of banners break my heart every time” — Oliver de la Paz| Read A Little Poetry
Discover CustomGPT's game-changing multilingual support for 92 languages, powered by ChatGPT-4, enhancing global communication and customer satisfaction.| CustomGPT
As early adopters of Elixir, we've been using the functional programming language for more than a decade. Here, our software experts share tips and tricks.| Revelry
© www.viewsoftheworld.net There are approximately 7,000 languages believed to be spoken around the world. Despite this diversity, the majority of the world’s population speaks only a fraction of these languages. The three largest language groups (Mandarin, Spanish, and English) are spoken by … Continue reading → The post Language Diversity was written by Benjamin Hennig and published on Views of the World. If you enjoyed this, you might want to follow me on Twitter or Facebook. - publi...| Views of the World
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Early versions of Simula experimented with an entirely different kind of object-oriented programming.| twobithistory.org
Folks who get to know me usually (and regrettably) discover that I am a language nerd. I like learning languages and I like learning about languages. There's all sorts of things that are fascinating about languages: where they come from, why they sound a certain way, why grammar is what it is. But lately, I'veRead More| Frank M Taylor
Static vs dynamic linking usually has to do with our tolerance for the size of our final executable. A static executable contains all code necessary to run the executable, so the operating system loads the executable into memory, and it’s off to the races. However, if we keep duplicating code over and over again, such as printf, then it starts to use up more and more space. So, a dynamic executable means that we only store stubs in the executable. Whenever we want to access printf, it goes ...| Stephen Marz
During the past months, I’ve been lucky to have the chance to write more Rust code for work and also for fun. Rust continues to be an interesting and fun language for me. Not everything is perfect, of course. Today I wanted to write about something that has bothered me since day one. It’s definitely … Continue reading Types and self-documenting code in Rust→| Manuel Cerón
I’ve created a huge tree to show the relationship between 64 living Indo-European languages, and many dead or extinct ones.With this template I’m planning on making a series of images to show how various words in these languages have shared etymologies. This is the first image in that series: words for “name”. If it doesn’t […]| Starkey Comics
Jeannie Backer wrote to us for help with a Cuban Finger Play. Here’s her note… My mother from Cuba used to sing a song/rhyme to us that I only partially remember, maybe you have heard something similar. It’s not a song as much as a cute thing that a child says to adult to ask for […] The post Can Anyone Help with a Cuban Rhyme/Finger Play that starts with “Chiquitica así”? first appeared on Mama Lisa's World Blog.| Mama Lisa's World Blog
We received the note below with the song “Cooma Lotta Veesay”. Many variations of this song exist, including “Kumala Vista”. It also shares lyrics with the action song called “Flee, Fly, Flo“. Here’s the email: “In the late 1950s, we lived near a community of Italians whose antecedents had emigrated from Italy in the early […] The post About the Song “Cooma Lotta Veesay” first appeared on Mama Lisa's World Blog.| Mama Lisa's World Blog
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Every serious game developer knows that world building is an integral part of the process that creates a truly immersive experience. There are a variety of techniques that can be used to achieve this: from presenting the backstory of your player with a wall of text, to clever level design tricks known as environmental storytelling. […] The post World Building Through Fictional Languages appeared first on Alan Zucconi.| Alan Zucconi
Have you ever wondered just how many 5-letter words exist in the vast and diverse English language? In this article, we will delve into the intriguing world of 5-letter words, exploring their prevalence, the most... The post How Many 5 Letter Words are There in the English Language appeared first on Amphy Blog.| Amphy Blog
In which I look at the state of the Python bindings for the GNOME platform| halting problem
In which I look at the state of Vala and hope for some introspection to happen| halting problem
The post discusses my experience with learning and using Ruby, highlighting its good, bad, and weird parts.| CodeKraft
Some may remember this post from long ago, where I wrote about farm tools and various other improvised weapons. This post was meant to follow it but time and circumstance necessitated several circumambulations of the stablished earth betwixt that time and now, and various vicissitudes observed and experienced, so the original is barely recognisable. The names and pictures are what counts, though. Good names can be dusted off and reconditioned.| Middenmurk
I am not interested in 5E because it is inextricably linked to the contemporary fantasy aesthetic. This also happens to be the secondary reason why I hated the Hobbit films. I realise I have exiled myself to a barren peninsula of my own eccentricity here but the fact remains that the aesthetic essence of the thing (i.e. its "style") matters far more to me that playability, accessibility or innovation. If 5E pursued a Weird aesthetic and rolled out Ian Miller, Russ Nicholson and John Blanche t...| Middenmurk
Rambling about toponyms and ethnonyms in various languages.| pseudoerasmus
A very brief history of Greek diglossia.| pseudoerasmus
Stream-of-consciousness thoughts about why we say “Semitic” even though the root is “Shem”. And, yes, I know the Hebrew letters in the title say “semitic sibbolethR…| pseudoerasmus
I just noticed Tyler Cowen had blogged a Boston Globe article about the number of loanwords in various languages (is there something from the press Cowen will not blog ?), and his own take was to a…| pseudoerasmus
Updated on 20 April 2024 Laws and social norms in industrialised societies have been shaped by the metaphor of society as a factory and the metaphor of people as machines more than m…| Jorn Bettin
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Mama Lisa's World presents thousands of traditional kids songs from over a hundred countries and cultures! We also feature a major collection of Mother Goose Rhymes, global recipes, holiday traditions and lively conversations about childhood around the world.| Mama Lisa's World of Children and International Culture
Master Spanish accents – letters & punctuation – with these seriously useful tricks. Learn how to type them on any keyboard & pronounce them!| Busuu Blog
Check out our guide to the top 10 easy languages to learn for English speakers and uncover which language you’ll find easiest to learn with our quiz.| Busuu Blog
Replacing monologues and monocultures with dialogues and biodiversity at all levels of scale Cultural inertiaAttempting to apply the scientific method in complex domains and transdisciplinary conte…| Jorn Bettin
The Overton window of industrialised society We live in a time of exponential changes in communication technology. Just a few decades ago humans only needed to learn one or two languages and perhap…| Jorn Bettin
Photo by Markus Spiske on Unsplash The many faces of busyness as usual From a European or American perspective the stereotype of the Japanese salaryman [1] is easily recognised as a product of a so…| Jorn Bettin
Evolutionary design allows organisations and people to participate in the evolution of a living system and to integrate their knowledge into a living system that includes humans, non-humans, and hu…| Jorn Bettin
Like bees and ants, humans are eusocial animals. Through the lenses of evolutionary biology and cultural evolution, local communities – and especially small groups of 20 to 100 people – are the pri…| Jorn Bettin
The growing cracks in the thin veneer of our “civilised” economic and social operating model are impossible to ignore, to the extent that serious discussions of degrowth are increasingl…| Jorn Bettin
Fun fact: approximately 6,500 languages are spoken around the world. But which languages have the most speakers? You might be surprised.| Busuu Blog
