#language (42 links)
- Lessons From Linguistics: i18n Best Practices for Front-End Developers shopify.engineering
A high density, high value guide.
- The importance of defining terms on every project, and how to agree them gathercontent.com
A look at the importance of shared vocabulary for projects with some non-tech world examples and showing how digital teams can benefit from this.
- The World’s Writing Systems worldswritingsystems.org
- The Economist - How to write well youtube.com
Our journalists discuss how to communicate with clarity, style and precision
- Demos, Prototypes, and MVPs | Jacob Kaplan-Moss jacobian.org
- Terminology Search - Microsoft | Language Portal microsoft.com
Translations for common UI phrases.
- 300 Languages: A Parallel Speech Corpus Project - The Rosetta Project rosettaproject.org
- Mono no aware - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
<blockquote>Mono no aware (物の哀れ?), literally "the pathos of things", and also translated as "an empathy toward things", or "a sensitivity to ephemera", is a Japanese term for the awareness of impermanence (無常 mujō?), or transience of things, and both a transient gentle sadness (or wistfulness) at their passing as well as a longer, deeper gentle sadness about this state being the reality of life.</blockquote>
- Russell Davies: Consumers, users, people, mammals russelldavies.typepad.com
<blockquote>Public servants can't pivot to a new problem or a new set of users. They have to solve the problem that's in front of them, and, probably, they'll have to keep solving it for years. That's something that the 'civic tech' community is going to have to face.</blockquote>
- Stevey's Blog Rants: Execution in the Kingdom of Nouns steve-yegge.blogspot.co.uk
<blockquote> For the lack of a nail, throw new HorseshoeNailNotFoundException("no nails!"); </blockquote>
<blockquote>Among the list of everyday terms found to have originated or spread from the conflict are cushy, snapshot, bloke, wash out, conk out, blind spot, binge drink and pushing up daisies.</blockquote>
- Semantic satiation - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
Semantic satiation (also semantic saturation) is a psychological phenomenon in which repetition causes a word or phrase to temporarily lose meaning for the listener, who can only process the speech as repeated meaningless sounds.
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- The Foreign Language of 'Mad Men' - Atlantic Mobile theatlantic.com
"Even more than anachronism, a core theme of Mad Men is the lost art of personal reserve, self-effacement, and mystery. When Don Draper says, "Tell Jimmy I need to talk to him" in season 2 instead of "I have to talk to him," it hits a slightly more narcissistic, self-revealing note than it should. A baby boomer might set up a business meeting by invoking his personal needs; but a member of the "silent generation"—particularly one living a double life like Draper—doesn't talk about himself quite so readily."
- Chinese Computing Information tlt.its.psu.edu
"Chinese Encoding and Language Tags". This is going to be fun.
- Official Google Webmaster Central Blog: Working with multi-regional websites googlewebmastercentral.blogspot.com
- Steven Poole: Thesaurosis stevenpoole.net
What differentiates this thesaurus from any other is that it is, as the title announces, historical: combining the data of the Oxford English Dictionary and the Thesaurus of Old English, it presents meanings in chronological order, noting when terms first appeared, often when they disappeared, or whether they were one-shots, lovely doomed coinages such as “moonling”.
This looks like it could be most handy. "If you’re building a multi-language website or app, you probably use language files. When you change content in one language file, you need to remember to update the other language files. Even with source control, this can get messy pretty quickly if you have many languages, many translators or a large site. We encountered these problems ourselves and needed a tool to keep things organized - so we built String."
- Skeuomorph - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
a term used in the history of architecture, design, and archaeology. It refers to a derivative object which retains ornamental design cues to structure that was necessary in the original. Skeuomorphs may be deliberately employed to make the new look comfortably old and familiar, such as copper cladding on zinc pennies or computer printed postage with circular town name and cancellation lines."
"Mr Foster says that what must be done is to teach organisations to "expand their talent management agenda from a narrow and tactical focus on human resources activities around the employee life cycle, to a broad and strategic focus on highly integrated systems of capabilities fundamental to business strategies and operations". This is shameful, outrageous bilge."
- scottberkun.com » Looking for project management slang scottberkun.com
- this is sippey.typepad.com: project management lingo sippey.typepad.com
“Is there Project Management Lingo?” Yes. Yes there is. My favourite in the comments: "What Would McGyver Do?"
- Lobby Lud - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia en.wikipedia.org
"Anonymous employees of the newspaper would visit seaside resorts. The newspaper would print details of the town, a description of the appearance of that day's "Lobby Lud", and a particular pass phrase. Anyone carrying a copy of the newspaper could challenge "Lobby Lud" with the appropriate phrase, and receive the sum of money."
- Mloovi RSS Blog Translator mloovi.com
A tool which will translate RSS newsfeeds into 24 languages using Google Translate.
Nicholson Baker on Wikipedia. Brilliant.
- Youpi Optimizer phupe.club.fr
Enables you to delete resources localized in unused languages, and then free disk space.
- Mule Design Studio's Blog: Words Words Words weblog.muledesign.com
Something funny about this whole Web 2.0 thing…much of what makes the experience is made of written words
- The Web Standards Project webstandards.org
Best Practices for Declaring Languages in HTML and XHTML
- OneLook Reverse Dictionary onelook.com
- Charl van Niekerk's Blog: The 'lang' Attribute charlvn.blogspot.com
- lifehack.org » Guide to Grammar and Writing lifehack.org
Capital Community College Foundation has a good site on Grammar and Writing which contains a very intensive guide from word and sentence, paragraph to essay and research paper level for grammar and writing. Bookmark this handy site for reference!
- gilest.org : reportage/living-in-japan.html gilest.org
A while ago, I fell into conversation-by-email with an American working in in Japan as a graphic designer [...] I asked him, very casually, if he could tell me a bit about what life is like there.