2011/07/12 22:23
I min barndom elskede jeg Tintin, og som lingvistikstuderende købte jeg ofte Tintin på underlige sprog, når jeg var på ferie.Jeg glæder mig derfor til at se Tintin-filmen, der snart er på trapperne.Denne trailer ser i hvert fald lovende ud:
2011/07/06 10:07
I've struggled with the phonetic realisation of /ɪ/ in Scottish English (i.e., the vowel in words such as bit) for a long time. I keep thinking it should be some sort of [ɪ], but it's clearly much more open than that.It helped a bit when a person called Pete commented on John Wells's Phonetic Blog that it ought to be...
2011/07/18 21:49
I thought it’d be fun to see how Europe would look if all borders were redrawn so that every point was in the same country as its nearest capital city, so I quickly wrote a wee program to illustrate this.
Some countries don’t look that different, but Italy is completely dismembered, and Scotland, Wales and parts of English all become Irish. (Just in case you’re wondering what happened to Luxembourg, I decided to exclude very small countries.)
The distance calculations are based on the distances on the actual map used, which means the borders are slightly wrong compared to what would happen if they were computed based on the actual Earth Globe.
Update: The Perl program I wrote to generate this is here.
2011/07/11 23:56
As a former employee of Collins Dictionaries, which is part of HarperCollins, which is part of News Corp, which owns News International, I'm obviously paying close attention to the unravelling phone-hacking scandal.Of course I don't have any inside information – Collins was organisationally too far removed from News International – but it is interesting to see how ruthless Murdoch can be when his interests are threatened. Even if the situation of News of the World had become untenable, one would...
2011/07/08 23:12
We had to take Phyllis's mum for a hospital appointment today, and instead of waiting at the hospital, we went to the brand-new transport museum, which is now called the Riverside Museum.It's a great improvement on the old Transport Museum, which was already a great place to spend an afternoon. There are many more exhibits, and they are presented in...
2011/07/05 23:55
Phyllis has nagged me for some time to get new mobile phones for Complexli, so yesterday I finally called T-Mobile and got the price of our contract reduced by 50% and got two new phones: an HTC Wildfire S for...
2011/07/04 20:42
One of the errors Danes often make when speaking English is to say warm when they mean hot (this is caused by Danish having only one word, varm, that covers both meanings).My stepdaughter, Charlotte, who is 11 years old and...
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