Wikipedia surfing: from spelling reform to cellar door
I’m having a debate with my southern hemisphere evil twin at the moment, about the merits of spelling reform. No conclusions to be expected, of course, but it’s leading to all sorts of delightful...
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A previous argument: “C for K, because the printers have not so many as the Welsh requireth.” A more recent argument: “Such a reform would diminish the number of letters about one sixteenth or...
View ArticleIt’s like learning a new language!
You know how when you’re learning a new language, at some point you reach a magical tipping point where it suffuses your life to such an extent that you start to dream in that language, instead of your...
View ArticleVoice of the robot revolution
Now that is fantastically cool — amazing what our brains can do with language once they know it is language… [via]
View ArticleTussendoortje: fish names
The weekend project (which I planned to release with much fanfare on Sunday) got bogged down, so instead of writing something myself I’ll point you at a LanguageHat post on fish names. It, in turn,...
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