Kiss-And-Ride
Will they ever learn? Yes, the concept of Kiss-and-Ride is coming to Ireland’s public transport system. Romance may not be dead, but localization considerations...
Africa
I’ve just finished Don Osborn’s African Languages in a Digital Age: Challenges and opportunities for indigenous language computing. Watch out for my review in...
What I'd Like to See at the Next Localization Conference
OK, I’ll write a proper Blogos entry shortly. Honestly. But for now, I’d like to put down these ideas because I just know that...
When in Rome…
I recently visited Rome and spent a week checking out the shoe stores fantastic sights of the Imperial, Medieval, Renaissance and more recent...
Historical language dictionaries – you don't want to rush these things
Another fascinating Irish language (Gaeilge) story from the Irish Times: 34 years compiling an Irish dictionary - and not yet at ‘B.’
Apparently:
"Work on the...
Can Irish Language Speakers Understand Each Other?
It shouldn’t surprise anyone, really, that a language isn’t spoken the same way by everyone in the same country. Irish (Gaeilge) is no exception,...
Belated Saint Patrick's Day Greetings
I was in Silicon Valley for Saint Patrick’s Day, but I was so swamped with work that I didn’t even make it to the...
The Secret Language of … Elephants
The Elephant Listening Project is putting elephant sounds together with behavior to create an elephant language dictionary.
CBS’s “Sixty Minutes” just ran a segment (video...
That #Linkedinfail Firestorm
For those of you not up on Twitter yet (you sinners) you might be unaware of the #linkedinfail ’firestorm‘ concerning the recent survey of...