The French disconnection
Old European holdings, New World prism. Mark Liberman of Language Log recently questioned the back story to Jean-Noël Jeanneney’s call to resist Google’s plan...
Proper Names
The Adamic power to name things has gone novaburst in the last 50 odd years since people all over the world started hitting computer...
New language technology blog
Language Technology Business appears to be a brand new blog dedicated to tracking business news on language and speech technologies. Nothing like a little...
Slav(e) labor?
Backbytes reports on a job ad in the U.K. that went as follows:
European Systems IT and business development manager, Wimbledon…An Accountancy company based in...
Cool typing trivia
Excessive verbiage typed into a chat room or IMS could suggest you’re lying. A report from Cornell University has found that monologuing liars
“talk too...
U.S. report on FBI Language Services
Further to my tongue-in-cheek blog the other day concerning the news about the FBI’s 120,000 hours of unread phone tap content, the report from...
What’s in a wor(l)d?
Blogged by John Battelle, the interview with Ramesh Jain in the latest Ubiquity reveals some interesting ideas about the ‘future of search’ meme, but...
Crystalline
Crystal - there’s something about that wonderful lucid, mineral name. Students of linguistics who remember it will be happily amused to see that British...
Shakespeare as he woz spoke
The UK Telegraph ran a fun story about the London Globe Theatre’s project of putting on a Shakespeare play using the pronunciation as...