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Cockney Rhyming Slang

A good dictionary for Sanskrit.

We’ve been moderately quiet about the kanji learning site WaniKani. Since it’s getting close to private alpha time (if you get the 30 Day Ebook there’s a link in there for previously said private alpha) I wanted to shed some details on the project that Viet’s been so hard at work on all these months. Of course, since it’s quite early everything I’m about to say is liable to change, but don’t you want to know more anyways?

The application for iPad or iPhone that tells the story of Chinese writing, explaining its logic and showing its beauty, sign after sign.

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An introduction to the JavaScript programming language, by Marijn Haverbeke. Very complete, extensive, and well-written resource. Must read for every intern in web developement ! :-)

"OneLook Reverse Dictionary" vous permet de décrire un concept et de revenir à une liste de mots et d'expressions relatifs à cette notion. Votre description peut être quelques mots, une phrase, une question, ou même juste un seul mot. Il suffit de taper dans la case ci-dessus et appuyez sur "Trouver les mots" . Il doit être court pour obtenir les meilleurs résultats. Dans la plupart des cas, vous en obtiendrez une liste de termes en rapport avec les meilleurs matches affiché en premier. OneLook's reverse dictionary lets you describe a concept and get back a list of words and phrases related to that concept.

Defuse is a new method for navigating and participating in online discussions. Previous designs for online discussion were successful under the assumption that participation would be limited to tens or at most hundreds of participants. Emergent social conventions have been able to smooth over media as they scale, but ultimately they are limited by the design of a medium itself. Defuse seeks to continue scaling online discussions by adding social, structural, and historical context throughout the interface, and by widening the expressivity of a message to match the user's intention. It does so using a combination of natural language processing, machine learning, visualization, data portraiture, social network analysis, and medium design.

“(When you are silent,) you see it” or “You find it”. What struck me was that this “it” made it sound like a person experiences or practices silence and the result is immediate or even immediately visible. Of course, I think that it’s presumed by the speaker that it isn’t actually so simple. It’s just that the language is not sufficient so we rely on the presumption that the listener understands that there’s more beyond the words. Two things come up for me: one is the use and handling of form, in this case words or language; the other is the tendency, or danger, for people to not notice that they are handling a form at all.

. In a year that brought us vuvuzelas (the dronelike plastic horns at the World Cup in South Africa) and mama grizzlies (Sarah Palin’s cadre of fierce women in the midterm elections), there’s no obvious front-runner in the sweepstakes for WOTY (pronounced “WOE-tee”). But for my money, the one word that sums up the scrapheap of the past year is junk.

BASIC JAPANESE SWORD TERMINOLOGY

水源 (suigen): source d'une rivière

Japanese students fill in emptied dialog balloons for Penny-Arcade.

What terrible business jargon do you need unsucked?

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