Artist's Notebook: Ramsey Nasser - ANIMAL

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Home - rust - GitHub

Another language filling roughly the same space as Go, built by some of the Mozilla folks. NewSqueak-inspired concurrency features.

to concurrency language language-design programming ... on 14 July 2010

Vala – Trac

Compiler from a C#-like language to C with GObject. Perhaps worth looking at for Potamus in the future?

to c compiler design gtk language programming ... on 05 March 2007

Mark Rosenfelder's Metaverse

All sorts of fun stuff -- but particularly the splendidly-detailed Verduria universe, and the analysis of the Syldavian language from Tintin.

to amusements chinese comics conlang language linguistics translation ... on 24 February 2007