Languages

TwitterFacebook
Get flash to fully experience Pearltrees
http://www.langmaker.com/langmake/#Download%20Now! This program was really cool in 1997 when I first wrote it for Windows 3.1, but I haven't had time to update it, and it doesn't work well with modern versions of Windows.

Win - Invent Your Own Language In Minutes

http://ask.metafilter.com/10490/What-concepts-do-not-exist-in-the-English-language Carl Honoré ( In Praise of Slow ) says Canada's Baffin Island Inuit "use the same word—'uvatiarru'—to mean both 'in the distant past' and 'in the distant future.' Time, in such cultures, is always coming as well as going." In an essay by Louise Edrich ( Two Languages in Mind, but Just One in the Heart ), she writes about learning Ojibwemownin and how "nouns are mainly desginated as alive or dead, animate or inanimate...once I began to think of stones as animate, I started to wonder whether I was picking up a stone or it was putting iteslf in my hand."

What concepts do not exist in the English language? | Ask MetaFilter

http://www.starchamber.com/paracelsus/elvish/elvish-in-ten-minutes.html Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

Write Your Name in Elvish in Ten Minutes

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_buffalo_Buffalo_buffalo

Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

" Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo. " is a grammatically valid sentence in the English language , used as an example of how homonyms and homophones can be used to create complicated linguistic constructs. It has been discussed in literature since 1972 when the sentence was used by William J.
Paralanguage refers to the non-verbal elements of communication used to modify meaning and convey emotion. Paralanguage may be expressed consciously or unconsciously , and it includes the pitch , volume , and, in some cases, intonation of speech . Sometimes the definition is restricted to vocally-produced sounds . http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paralanguage

Paralanguage - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

20+ Ways to Learn a Language Online

Earlier today we mentioned a plugin for AIM that would translate what you type on the fly into another language. http://www.readwriteweb.com/archives/20_ways_to_learn_a_language_online.php

Learn the phonetic alphabet - Packet Life

http://packetlife.net/blog/2009/dec/31/learn-phonetic-alphabet/ How often have you been on one end of a telephone conversation that went like this? A: "Okay, give me the MAC address." B: "Zero zero, zero two, six bee--" A: "Six what?"
ASL