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Entries tagged 'linguistic'
- Voynich Manuscript
Next part of The Pocketwatch is up Clues. I had wanted to do some stuff in the future before moving on but I could not...
- Pattern Flux
Probably because of the chaotic nature of my speech I tend to not only shift accents from time to time but also shift expressions in my speech as...
- Mathematical Impossibility
I have today put up not one but two parts for Red Ice First Craft and Polonium Black. Thes...
- Desereted
One of the things specific to LDS culture and one of the things I forgot about by the time I started doing linguistic studies was an attempt duri...
- People are Deaf
While I didnt know that it was a Yamaha product until today Ive known about Vocaloidfor a l...
- Crash Review
I started going through the Pimsleur course today for Japanese. Since I didnt know what they would cover in the course I decided to just start fro...
- Cloaked
As of right now most of AnacondaSoftware is now closed leaving just the forum. I had a security issue come up with my hosting account and so in t...
- Semi-machinated
A new part of Red Ice is now posted. And Im not sure how exactly to pronounce the name to be honest with you its been ages since I did any stu...
- ?!
This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...
- ?!
This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...
- Eh?
Its a common joke that Canadians often use Eh at the end of their sentences and if youre talking with them you should as well to fit in. In r...
- Intensive Intent
Ive noticed recently a trend of improper expression use. Particularly the expression for all intents and purposes. For some reason I guess a nu...
- AIM Talk
So I just remembered Sony Ericsson phones have builtin functions for posting photographs onto Googles Blogger service. I had started setting it u...
- Pronounced
English is a rather strange language. It is filled with many different language influences and it is full of conflicting grammatical rules. It is ...
- Double Vision
One of the things that is supposed to be avoided in writing and spellcheckers freak out over all the time is words written twice. The obvious rea...
- A short guide to lolcats
Originating in the depths of the internet on a day of the week known as Caturday now you can see the lo...
- Déjà Vowel
I thought I had talked about this once before but apparently I havent. Also it seems Google isnt indexing anything for the search box Ill loo...
- Constant/Consonant
The other day in work a coworker was making a joke about another one not a derogatory joke mind you a joke that she often makes about herself....
- Interpersonal
One of the lesser seen problems of Englishs pronouns a problem not as glaring as our lack of a singular genderneutral pronoun is the fact tha...
- sRc
Since I accidentally dropped it on the Gentoo forums and its a part of my Steam tag I guess Ill explain my alias name sRc.To do t...
- Um, lot?
Some words we use in common day to day speech arent actually words in the English language they are loanwords. Some of these can be easily recogn...
- Caution: English Construction Next 5 Miles
At my work theres a guy who often mispronounces the names of things. Usually its nothing to bother with but occasionally some unusual words are cr...
- Bilingual Illiterate
Writing Skewed occasionally presents an unusual problem.Skewed takes place in Japan and its characters are with a couple exceptions ...
- Emphasis Added
As a general rule English follows a pattern of emphasizing every other syllable. Occasionally one and two syllable words in succession will swap t...
- ?!
This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...
- Then There Was Than
As if a sign of how prevalent mistakes are in our language the HowTo of the Day a few days ago was a hrefhttpwww.wikihow.comUseThanandT...
- Buried Treasure
In High School I kept a notebook for stuff related to the AnacondaSoftware title Spiral Island. This is a white notebook with a sheet slid in the...
- Too Late, Can't Think
Im in training all this week from 3PM to 1130PM.On normal days I go to bed at the time Im just getting home.So I haven...
- Listen To What I'm Thinking
Text is plain. Emotions cant be portrayed very well with text alone especially in just speech text. Forums email and chats are where these probl...
- Description and Direction
Most of the time I plan out things in a script format. I have stories told by the characters with conversations between characters explaining the ...
- Unfamiliar Words
I didnt have much in the way of spelling mistakes to work with the last couple of days and I didnt want to go back and look for them. The real i...
- Geek's a Verb?
So being that its Memorial Day its kinda slow around work. Not as slow as say Thanksgiving or Christmas would be but it is slower than usual. Th...