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Voice of the robot revolution

Thursday, March 4, 2010

Now that is fantastically cool — amazing what our brains can do with language once they know it is language… [via]

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It’s like learning a new language!

Thursday, October 1, 2009

You know how when you’re learning a new language, at some point you reach a magical tipping point where it suffuses your life to such an extent that you start to dream in that language, instead of your mother tongue? Last night I dreamed I was setting homework and preparing a lecture. And as I [...]

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More spelling reform

Tuesday, December 2, 2008

A previous argument: “C for K, because the printers have not so many as the Welsh requireth.” A more recent argument: “Such a reform would diminish the number of letters about one sixteenth or eighteenth. This would save a page in eighteen; and a saving of an eighteenth in the expense of books, is an [...]

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Wikipedia surfing: from spelling reform to cellar door

Sunday, October 19, 2008

I’m having a debate with my southern hemisphere evil twin at the moment, about the merits of spelling reform. No conclusions to be expected, of course, but it’s leading to all sorts of delightful Wikipedia discoveries. Spontson glaber1 discovered in the OED the spelling “thrwch” for “through”, which put me in mind of Welsh. (By [...]

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