My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-25)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
"Lost" Languages to Be Resurrected by Computers?
Using no more computing power than that of a high-end laptop, the new program compared symbol and word frequencies and patterns in Ugaritic with those of a known language, in this case, the closely related Hebrew.
Just found this, realizing that it had to be posted.
My Top 5 Artists (Week Ending 2010-7-18)
Imported from Last.fm Tumblr by JoeLaz
Stream of Consciousness: Scots dialect 101
Just for fun, I thought I’d let you lovely people in on a few of the gems(?) of the Scots lingo. I find it as amusing a language to listen to/read as I’m sure most outsiders do (and I’m a native…). I would stress at this point that not everyone here speaks in the manner which I am about to…
The grades your grades could be like.
