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[Multilingual Monday] Arabic typesetting
A fairly quick one today -- one of the blogs I've been following has been 29LT, which discusses Arabic typesetting. Arabic seems to have had quite a number of growing pains when it comes to adapting to technology in order to create a fairly accurate version of the Arabic script via various machines, as seen in this particular article, where ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Let's Learn Nōsō!!
I can't even tell you how much time I spent on this. I seriously must be out of my mind for doing it, but ... here we are ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Of Linguistic Interest
Damn it, the project is taking longer to finish than I thought. Bad Regev, no cookie.
In the meantime, things that have piqued my interest:
From a friend of mine on Google+, he managed to find the one person to take a Eurovision entry and make ASL lyrics -- not that ASL's really USED in Europe, but we'll ignore that. :: laugh :: While there are ( Read more... ) -
Money, fonts, etc.
I got my first paycheque this week from the law firm. It's nice, for a change, to not feel like I'm helplessly fiscally fucked. For the first time in a very long time, I will have a "free cheque" (I won't need to pay any bills as I did that this week), and it's a great feeling ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Linguistic Screwups
First off: Balashon is a great Hebrew language source. It covers words in modern Hebrew and why they are used. As you know, the revival of the Hebrew language as a spoken living language has been fascinating to watch blossom as it adapts to the modern world, and the site (which, sadly, doesn't seem to be getting updated anymore) has some great ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Linky linky
Links that are of linguistic interest -- at least, they are to me:
- 36 Kanji a Day. I admit it; there are always those stray kanji that, no matter what, seem to escape me. Separated into nine levels, there are four kanji each day, providing pronunciations, good words to learn, and other tidbits. Yeah, I check this every day.
- Hasafa Haivrit. Not ( Read more... )
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[Multilingual Monday] Learn a language! ... well, an old version of it ...
I love following an evolution of a language, in all aspects -- its vocabulary, its grammar, its script. But there is something to be said for learning the older form of a language, as there may be a plethora of literature may exist in that language ...
So why not learn, for example, classical Japanese? Maybe Old English? (And then you can join an ( Read more... ) -
[Multilingual Monday] Shibboleth
Ah, a concept that I understood but whose name I didn't know: the shibboleth (<- that's a Wikipedia link there!)
This initially came up while seeing the terrible Eytan Fox movie The Bubble, where a Palestinian man tries to pass as Israeli (because he's banging a man in the IDF). At one point the said IDF man he's banging asks why he doesn't " ( Read more... )
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