Turned out to be a lovely sunny day here in London. I have completed the two coffee kiosks at Blackheaath and Bexleyheath and  now  on a train towards Wandworth to do my charity shop visit.

Photos later.

Okay - this is not fun at all - having not received any JSA money again - so i have written to the main DWP office up north pleading to them for a rethink -

Hence, i am so financially screwed due to the idea that they think i have been paid too much money from my mystery shopping work for any JSA payment . That is not the case as it does not even ( Read more... )

I'm wondering if anyone has tried learning a language using the tips from Tim Ferriss's The Four-Hour Chef. In particular, he suggests starting by "deconstructing" the grammar by getting a native speaker to translate some basic sentences, like "The apple is red," "We give him the apple," and so on. This is the table I've constructed for Greek (with ( Read more... )

I'm working on a zine about vegan cuisine from the Mid East/Maghreb & want to include a short section of phrases useful for folks traveling in the regions. If anyone would be able to help out with translations into the following languages (both in the relevant script & an approximate representation in Latin script would be fantastic), I'd be so, so ( Read more... )

Does anyone know of a way of searching spoken corpora by lexical set? E.g. NURSE, PRICE, CHOICE, etc.

Anyone have Tristram The Celtic Englishes III to hand? I need to relate pdf pagination to that of the edited volume (the article in question is Hickey, 'What's so cool in Irish English?', pp. 357-373).

What I want to do is automatically make a list of names with themed meanings and three-word strings from different themed word lists. I would like lemma and part of speech considered. I would like this done automatically. I would like phrases to be be part of word lists and taken apart when needed. I would like to build word lists from synonyms if ( Read more... )

Dear friends!
Can I have some minutes of your precious attention, please?
I'm carrying out poetry associative experiment and extremely need help of all English native speakersIt won't take you much time but I would highly appreciate your responses and contribution in my research ( Read more... )

Have you visited any conferences/listened to any talks recently where a new idea caught your interest? I am expecially interested in an example of a new idea in computational linguistics

Here's a quick one for you to consider ( Read more... )