Ma.gnolia: Meredith's Bookmarks Tagged With "language"

Glossary of Linguistic Terms

meredith — Sat, 26 Jan 2008 18:47:31 PST

From absessive case to zero morph.

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Warlpiri Sign Language and Auslan: A Comparison

meredith — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 16:54:27 PST

Comparison of an Aboriginal sign language and the sign language used by deaf Australians.

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Language Geek Fonts

meredith — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 16:15:39 PDT

Fonts for Algonquian, Cherokee, Blackfoot, and other Native American languages.

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SheWrite

meredith — Thu, 20 Sep 2007 11:58:09 PDT

How do you film poetry? What kind of screen visuals can support the lines of a poem?

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Journee Mondiale des Sourds

meredith — Mon, 10 Sep 2007 13:51:23 PDT

Video showing many sign languages from around the world, in support of the Sept 29th marches for sign language rights. Fast forward to about 20:00 for the ASL version.

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Tags: deaf, language

So You Want To learn Japanese...

meredith — Sat, 08 Sep 2007 15:46:13 PDT

You've eaten at a few Japanese restaurants, seen some anime, hosted an exchange student, and had a Japanese girlfriend. And now, somewhere in the back of your tiny brain, you think that Japanese would be a good language to learn. Hey, you could translate video games! Or Manga! Or even Anime! Pick up Japanese girls, impress your friends! Maybe you'll even go to Japan and become an anime artist! Yeah! Sounds like a great idea!

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Tags: funny, language, japan

Rosetta Stone: Endangered Languages

meredith — Sun, 05 Aug 2007 17:25:35 PDT

The creators of the popular Rosetta Stone language learning sets also offer their services to help communities record and preserve their dying languages.

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Tags: language, education, history

Cued Speech: Your Unasked Questions Answered

meredith — Tue, 05 Jun 2007 07:36:43 PDT

Quite possibly the best introduction to Cued Speech that I've ever read, by Hilary Franklin. [via sajego]

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Tags: deaf, language

In My Language

meredith — Sat, 03 Feb 2007 01:20:05 PST

An outstanding video from an autistic woman about the difference between her world and ours. Her explanation is PROOF POSITIVE that she and others like her are not less than us, they are simply DIFFERENT from us. I am glad she could bridge the gap and t

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Tags: disability, language

Omniglot

meredith — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:47:21 PST

This site contains details of most alphabets and other writing systems currently in use, as well as quite a few ancient and invented ones.

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I Can Eat Glass

meredith — Fri, 12 Jan 2007 21:55:23 PST

I was playing with StumbleUpon and came across a site reminiscient of the old I Can Eat Glass project. Turns out there's no real home on the web for that anymore, so I bought a domain and made this on a whim.

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Tags: retro, funny, language, oldtech

A Nice Gesture

meredith — Tue, 09 Jan 2007 08:26:01 PST

Stories of gestures and sign language about perception, semiotics, and technology.

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Literally, A Web Log

meredith — Fri, 08 Dec 2006 11:11:34 PST

An English language grammar blog tracking abuse of the word "literally."

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People First Language

meredith — Thu, 28 Sep 2006 03:49:05 PDT

Recommendations on proper terminology for persons with disabilities.

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The Rosetta Project

meredith — Wed, 20 Sep 2006 17:40:17 PDT

A global collaboration of language specialists and native speakers building an online archive of all documented human languages. Alternative to the Ethnologue.

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SignBank

meredith — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 11:20:02 PDT

Downloadable dictionaries for sign languages used in the US, Brazil, France, Italy, Germany, etc. All written in SignWriting. Also tools for many other signed languages transcribed into SignWriting.

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Tags: language, software, deaf

ASLinfo.com

meredith — Tue, 29 Aug 2006 07:18:39 PDT

Information and resources on American Sign Language, interpreting, and Deaf culture.

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Inca language gets jumpstart on Microsoft

meredith — Fri, 25 Aug 2006 07:10:53 PDT

A new Quechua translation of Windows, which gets its Bolivian debut Friday, required more than three years to develop because of the 22 different dialects.

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California Healthcare Interpreting Association

meredith — Thu, 10 Aug 2006 19:21:19 PDT

Health care interpreters and providers working together to overcome linguistic and cultural barriers to high-quality care.

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Tags: language, health

Domsub.info - Historical Use of Capitalization

meredith — Tue, 08 Aug 2006 14:27:08 PDT

Some information from a pro-capitalization perspective. This is the use of He and She, W/we, T/they, that kind of thing.

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Tags: kinky, language

A Language to Air News of America to the World

meredith — Mon, 07 Aug 2006 12:14:09 PDT

New York Times profile of Simple English and its use on the Voice of America broadcast radio network. [via metafilter]

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Tags: language, media

FeralChildren.com

meredith — Mon, 24 Jul 2006 10:14:51 PDT

Isolated, confined, and wild children. Includes case studies of those raised by animals, personal experiences, etc. Also describes some hoaxes. Goes into language acquisition and physical development, as well as psychological impact.

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Readability Test

meredith — Mon, 03 Jul 2006 17:21:39 PDT

Uses Gunning Fog, Flesch, and Flesch-Kincaid reading level algorithms.

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British Sign Language Dictionary

meredith — Fri, 09 Jun 2006 08:58:29 PDT

At last! A BSL equivalent to the ASL Browser. Uses animated GIFs to show almost 500 words in BSL. Apparently it's the same sign for "father" and "Friday"...and our sign for deaf is their sign for hearing!

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Tags: deaf, language

Unicode Character Pickers

meredith — Tue, 23 May 2006 18:51:39 PDT

Type letter-by-letter in Arabic, Persian, Urdu, Armenian, Bengali, Hebrew, IPA, Malayalam, Thai, and several other scripts. [via shannonwest]

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Tags: language, tools

International Phonetic Alphabet

meredith — Mon, 22 May 2006 19:37:10 PDT

IPA chart in Unicode and XHTML/CSS. Includes explanation of the IPA and a keyboard to use for "typing" IPA easily.

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Travel and Language

meredith — Mon, 22 May 2006 14:29:46 PDT

Essays, thoughts, studies, and stories about travel and language. (Note: when clicking any link, just drop out the extra /travel/ from the URL, there should only be one.)

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Tags: travel, language