Tags Results for 'language'

Komkommertijd (Saturday 30th of August 2008 09:23:00 AM)

Here's a Dutch word for you all. I know I have done little blogging this past summer, but I am
back now, and it's all down to this one word: "komkommertijd." It literally
translates as "cucumber season", or if you wish to be really ... (more)

Can anyone help me by checking any language mistakes? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:02:53 AM)

Abstract The main purpose of the Public Administration is to implement the government
politics. While accomplishing the public duty the administrator practises administrative acts
as a way of externalizing and demonstration of the state function. However, ... (more)

Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language (Saturday 05th of July 2008 04:10:08 AM)

An unnamed reader brings us Computerworld's parley with Don Woods, one of the creators of
Compiler discourse With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its testimony were
created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction ... (more)

Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms (Sunday 25th of May 2008 07:26:16 AM)

Overmars writes "After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google
is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded
secret for two reasons: rivalry and to prevent abuse, said Udi ... (more)

Holland v the Netherlands (Wednesday 16th of April 2008 12:33:00 PM)

A small item in one of the papers I read every day: the TV show Holland's Got Talent doesn't
get the high number of viewers they sort of expect. Why? Because of its name, and strangely not
because of the poor quality of the show. ... (more)

Paintings of Italian Artist - Lucio Salvatore (Thursday 10th of April 2008 12:00:00 AM)

LANGUAGEThis series of pictures is a meditation on the origins of Thought and its fundamental
words whose interpretations, that havechanged through the different Epochs, have and will
always determine the destiny of every civilization. ... (more)

Words (Thursday 14th of February 2008 05:39:00 AM)

Salute the past, Live in the present, Ready for the futureWords are always stronger than any

Goeiemoggel (Friday 14th of December 2007 01:09:00 PM)

That's the new way of saying Good Morning in Dutch. It's all the hype these days. The
expression was coined in a cellphone commercial. It's a pretty funny commercial, about a fish
transport business that has adapted completely to the many spelling errors ... (more)

The Dutch language (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 10:18:00 AM)

I have already devoted some entries to the English language, and the American variety, and
wasn't always positive. Fairness dictates that I should also write something about my own
language, which is of course Dutch. Now, I don't want you to order a Dutch ... (more)

Body Language for Lovers (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 02:00:00 PM)

Are you sending the right signals to your undeveloped mates? proper to the latest research, 99
percent of fascination is really nonverbal communication. Anthropologist David Givens provides
a practical guide to the body language of seduction in his new ... (more)

Body Language for Lovers (Monday 10th of September 2007 02:00:00 PM)

Are you sending the right signals to your possible mates? gospel to the latest research, 99
percent of courting is genuinely nonverbal communication. Anthropologist David Givens provides
a practical guide to the body language of seduction in his new book, ... (more)

Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 11:09:09 PM)

Jerry Asher writes "Not all of my coworkers are careful about spelling errors. Sometimes this
causes real embarrassment as spelling errors creep into software interfaces. Does anyone know
of spell checkers for programming languages? I don't want a text ... (more)

The prettiest word (Tuesday 31st of July 2007 12:28:00 PM)

Last night I spent about an hour flipping thru the channels, and I came across a gameshow, De
Canvascrack, on Belgian TV. I didn't watch much of it, but one question stood out for me. An
association calling themselves 'Onze Taal' ('Our Language') have ... (more)

Silly expressions (Monday 16th of July 2007 12:47:00 PM)

Another entry about American English, about the use of the word community. I used to think it
was funny when the Blues Brothers spoke of the "Illinois Law Enforcement Community",
but I keep hearing this word used in the same sense in ever sillier ... (more)

A comment on the "World Citizen's Guide" (Monday 09th of July 2007 03:26:00 PM)

Two entries ago, I mentioned a thing called the 'World Citizen's Guide' (HTML version), which
is a publication of an organization calling itself "Business for Diplomatic Action",
in cooperation with the State Department. I don't know how American's ... (more)

American v the Queen's English II (Monday 09th of July 2007 01:09:00 PM)

Well... those British aren't such perfect speakers of the English language after all. I
mentioned how the British have baths, while Americans take baths... Well, I have a pocket
version of the Oxford English Dictionary, and under bath, it clearly states, ... (more)

American v The Queen's English (Friday 06th of July 2007 04:56:00 PM)

Oof, I'm broken. I've just been to Germany. I left the house at 4.45 AM, got on the first
train, spent two hours in Germany, buying typically German food stuff at a supermarket of
American proportions, and just got home. Because of the early hour ... (more)

 

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