On his YouTube channel, Thomas Whichello reads interesting literature aloud, often in the original languages, dialects, or accents, with the goal of making “classic works intelligible and enjoyable to everybody”. One of his most popular videos is his recitation of book 1 of the Iliad in Ancient Greek.
In the translation for this video, I have attempted to follow the emphasis, division of…
This article examines the best Python microframeworks. Micro means the framework is small, with little or no tools and libraries.
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Who knew a Scot talking about a sandwich could cause trouble with Homeland Security?
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A modular, high-performance Rust framework for generating constructed languages (conlangs).
Japan spent a century trying to abolish kanji, from an 1866 petition to the shogun to a postwar novelist who wanted Japan to adopt French. Here's why it failed.
This is my nasin for writing toki pona. My nasin includes things meant for better typesetting, improved readability of text, and preserving the generally artistic nature of toki pona whether that is in sitelen pona or sitelen Lasina. Most of the readability that I talk about boils down to: When dealing with multiple subjects, several head-nouns or verbs, your text might get cluttered and you…
"To forgive is to assume a larger identity than the person who was first hurt.”
ANTALYA, TURKEY—Hürriyet Daily News reports that five additional letters in the Sidetic alphabet have been […]
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"Despite what dictionaries would have us believe, this world is still mostly undefined."
Humans have always been wired for technology and AI may be the latest proof
QUEBEC – A new language law will require Quebecois meteorologists to stop using the annual list of Atlantic hurricane names generated by the US National Hurricane Center, and instead refer to all named tropical storms as “Jean-Pierre”. “The list of storm names generated each year by the National Hurricane Center does not reflect our language […]
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In his senior column, Jay Gupta ’26 reflects on missed experiences.
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[Bob] recently completed LanguageLearner, a desktop device that increases his exposure to a second language by offering up bite-sized news items in Italian, with a complementary English translation. Even better, …read more
This essay is adapted from Traversal and continues the story of the making of Leaves of Grass. With Leaves of Grass already printed — by a Brooklyn friend, at the poet’s own expense — Whitman had only to find a willing distributor who would root this uncommon book into the common soil of popular literature. He had the boldly entrepreneurial idea of approaching Fowler & Wells — New York’s…
How do dictionary makers keep track of similarly suffixed words, like those ending in -ism, -graphy, -ness, or -ology? With a computer, it’s simple, but how did they do it before the computing age? Starting in the 1950s, lexicographers at Merriam-Webster typed all of the words in the dictionary out backwards and organized them alphabetically into a collection called the Backward Index.
The…
Ndayé Kouagou’s Heaven’s truth explores language, AI and uncertainty through a work that asks viewers to slow down and pay attention.
今回は、PowerShellの現状についてまとめてみることにした。なお、Windowsに標準添付されているWindows PowerShellとの違いは、下記の記事を参考にしてほしい（「PowerShellの今を見る 2つあるPowerShellはどっち使えばいい？」）。 単体で入手してインストールがオススメのPowerShell PowerShellの前身であるWindows P...
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Gesture: every language has them, but what do they have to do with the emoji on your phone?
Lauren and Gretchen get enthusiastic about Lauren’s new book ‘Gesture: A Slim Guide’ from Oxford University Press in our episode 'A hand-y guide to gesture’
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Sometimes, you’re talking with someone and you just seem to click. Other times, you just can’t seem to get comfortable: they’re standing too close or too far away for comfort, making too much or too little eye contact, touching or not touching you in a way that just doesn’t quite feel right. But where do our senses of what feels comfortable in a conversation come from, and how…
It's a phrase that confuses Tokyoites. But to many in the Kansai region, it's a daily expression rooted in the region's unique breakfast habits.
Mastering spelling and grammar should not be optional for pupils, but that is an unpopular view.
My Syrian-born father built a life, a family and a home in America — but his sense of belonging here has never felt entirely unquestioned
A survey of 3,000 women found 58% identified with the phenomenon. But it's the label that has people riled up.
You'll never see "by the way" and "of course" the same way again.
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I do stitch my soul a little every day, Yet some fresh crack finds its way… A flaw that others … More
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The Elation and Anxiety of Reading Fic in Your Native Tongue
Our latest piece is live! The brilliant Soila Kenya writes about the dominance of English in fandom and especially fanfiction spaces, and why for her and the fellow fans she interviewed from Kenya, Nigeria, and Burundi, this is partly about the global dominance of…
There’s a difference between using a tool to assist you, and using one to replace cognitive effort.
Xu remains conflicted on how to cross the bridge between his life in China and America.
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