Archive: Languages category
So, this guy named Ammon Shea just spent a year reading the whole Oxford English Dictionary. The whole thing. He's writing a book about it, but he's also posting to the Oxford University Press blog about it, and a couple days ago he posted Absurd Entries in ...
Just a quick bit of news: my brother Daniel got his mission call today, and he's going to (drum roll) Hong Kong! :) He's the next missionary to serve since I got back from Thailand. And he's serving in Asia! I mean, sure, it would've been splendidly ...
On days when I'm tired (like today), it seems like designing is a whole lot easier than writing. Drafting out the new stake leadership directory went smoothly, but even just the thought of writing was enough to make me want to take a nap. (Which is what I ...
Yesterday morning I was browsing through my copy of Tales Before Tolkien, and I happened to notice the Recommended Reading section at the back, which I'd never seen before.
Goosebumps.
You see, that section lists early fantasy writers and their works (William Morris, E. Nesbit, Lord Dunsany, Walter de la Mare, John ...
Back in May, I decided to start digitizing the Welsh Book of Mormon (Llyfr Mormon), dubbing the endeavor Project Cymru. It was going along pretty well for a while, but then I got bogged down over the summer and kind of forgot about the project. I did ...
I checked out some books on Hebrew and Arabic today, and as I was leafing through the Hebrew one at dinner (Hebrew for Biblical Interpretation by Arthur Walker-Jones), I realized something: I really want to publish language books. Both books about the languages and texts in the languages.
You see, ...
Tagging has two meanings in the blogosphere: the tags that categorize a post (whether internal or for some site like Technorati), and tag-you're-it questionnaire thingies. I have to admit that most of the time I try not to see who got tagged on posts like the latter, ...
I picked up my French copy of Les Misérables on a whim just a few minutes ago, and as fate would have it, opened directly to my favorite passage. Now, I didn't immediately recognize the passage, seeing as my French comprehension is still a bit on the slow side. ...
Today is J.R.R. Tolkien's birthday. He'd be 115 today, actually, which mainly makes me wonder why I wasn't paying attention when his eleventy-first birthday happened back in 2005. ~sigh~
To verify the year, I went to Wikipedia's Tolkien page. And then curiosity got the better of me and ...
I know, I know, four posts in one day is a bit OCD, but this is too cool to let sit around. In Google Talk (and Gmail chat as well, of course), you can add translator bots as "friends," and then you just open a chat window with ...
