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September 01, 2005
Visual Poetry
About the Other Animals, a beautifully-animated poem by Ariana-Sophia Kartsonis, designed by Julie Potvin. (From ”Swiss Miss”)
English as She is Spoke. This 1883 book is without question the worst phrasebook ever written. The writer, Pedro Carolino, who was Portuguese, did not particularly speak English, nor did he have a Portuguese-English dictionary available. Instead, he worked with a French-English phrasebook and a Portuguese-French dictionary. The results, I'm sure you'll agree, are staggering
Type any text with French accents
736 "essentialist explanations" of the form "Language X is essentially language Y under conditions Z"
A machine translator (1 free usage per day) that includes Polish, Dutch, Farsi... Otherwise, you can use Babel Fish or Applied Language
Girl: Mommy, what's the opposite of hair? “Slate” talks about Overheard in New York
Many More Unusual Language Links Here
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or google translate - http://www.google.com/language_tools
or worldlingo - http://www.worldlingo.com/en/products_services/worldlingo_translator.html
Posted by: nick at Sep 1, 2005 10:50:00 AM