Cennydd uses the word “select” as an input-neutral term for what we might be tempted to call clicks or taps. Personally, I like the term “choose”, although that word might have too much intent bundled with it.
A beautiful short film about The Long Now Foundation’s Rosetta Project.
Richard gives the lowdown on the new translate attribute in HTML.
Linguistics and programming collide in this paper from the 18th Workshop of the Psychology of Programming Interest Group, University of Sussex, September 2006: Lakoffian analysis of the mental models of Java programmers.
Spizzle up your tizzle.
Some of the best neologisms in programming, many of them to do with bug-fixing.
Coping mechanisms for grammar pedants. I can see myself using this alot.
The nerdgasmic result of a collision between linguistics and Star Wars.
Collective nouns, collected.
Because the internet needs prophylactics for memetically transmitted diseases.
A detailed look at the troubled history of George Lakoff, the father of conceptual metaphor.
The Sapir WIMP hypothesis: "The more easily you can talk about a user interface, the more easily you can understand how to manipulate it."
I saw Steven Pinker give a talk recently and he spent a fair amount of time talking about swearing. He has written up that part of the talk into an article for the New Republic.
A blog dedicated to cataloguing snowclones. Brilliant!
The cawl for speling reform in the Inglish langwidge iz misguyded and franklee, kynd ov styoopid.
A superb article by John Allsopp on semantics in the broad sense, from philosophy and linguistics right through to markup. And this is just part one! Read, enjoy, and prepare for part two.
Like Flickr, but without the photos. This, I like.
This is the plain vanilla look.
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