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ESL (JBR i18n) edit / delete

Tips on writing technical documentation (specifically, for Debian) for people who've learned English as a second language. This has a nice list of common pitfalls for translators, and some notes on English grammar rules you might have been taught that don't actually match real usage.

to ag0700 debian documentation english i18n language technical translation writing ... on 28 August 2014

Jane Austen Fiction Manuscripts: Home edit / delete

"The Jane Austen’s Fiction Manuscripts Digital Edition gathers together in the virtual space of the web some 1100 pages of fiction written in Jane Austen’s own hand." I'm not really very interested in Jane Austen's fiction itself, but the details of how the manuscripts were preserved and digitised are really interesting.

to etext fiction history jane-austen language manuscript preservation writing ... on 24 August 2014

Dictionary of the Scots Language edit / delete

"The Dictionary of the Scots Language (DSL) comprises electronic editions of the two major historical dictionaries of the Scots language: the 12-volume Dictionary of the Older Scottish Tongue (DOST) and the 10-volume Scottish National Dictionary (SND)." The introductory material is very interesting.

to dictionary etext history language scotland scots ... on 11 July 2014

Artist's Notebook: Ramsey Nasser - ANIMAL edit / delete

Designing an Arabic programming language.

to arabic language language-design ... on 20 May 2014

Language Log » English is a Dialect of Germanic; or, The Traitors to Our Common Heritage edit / delete

Describing the relationship between Mandarin and Cantonese, using English and German as an analogy. Very neat.

to cantonese chinese english german language linguistics mandarin ... on 08 September 2013

Martin Porter's Home Page edit / delete

As in the Porter stemming algorithm, which is well-described here. The Snowball stuff is also pretty interesting to look at.

to language nlp stemming text ... on 06 August 2013

Moses - Main/HomePage edit / delete

The demo is veeeeery slow, but it does appear to work. Sort of.

to language software translation ... on 07 June 2013

The Language of Food edit / delete

Very interesting. Shame it's not been updated in a while!

to amusements cooking etymology food history language linguistics ... on 08 April 2013

Cal Poly Pomona Asian Name Pronunciation Guide edit / delete

Handy. (I'm never quite sure if my students forgive me for repeatedly mangling their names.)

to language name pronunciation ... on 28 September 2012

Aye Can - Scots language - Scottish Census 2011 edit / delete

Training for the census questions -- but the useful thing is the big collection of recordings of Scots speakers from different areas. (The collection is much bigger than the links suggest; try changing the number in the URL!)

to language scotland scots ... on 05 March 2011