There are rules for pronouncing American English given the spelling; there are just a lot of them, and they’re ugly. No one’s going to get educated people to change how they spell–they’ve invested too much in learning it, and there’s too much legacy. But the way people speak, their dialect, varies widely with geography. So [...]
I started a blog to record my Gospel Doctrine lessons. It’s called ankylodoxy, as opposed to orthodoxy.
My grandfather, Jesse Stay, died this morning. My cousin, Jesse Stay III, wrote up a nice eulogy, as did my sister Karen.
http://www.haskell.org/haskellwiki/Category_theory#Categorical_programming
http://www.cl.cam.ac.uk/~mpf23/
http://www.sciam.com/article.cfm?id=more-common-questions-abo-2003-04-14&print=true
Consider some javascripty pseudocode:
aPoint = {x:3, y:4};
This is an object that responds to four messages: “x”, “x =”, “y”, “y =”
>> aPoint.x
[ {x:3, y:4}, 3 ]
>> aPoint.y
[ {x:3, y:4}, 4 ]
>> aPoint.x = 15
[ {x:15, y:4}, null ]
>> [...]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=W1czBcnX1Ww
http://farms.byu.edu/display.php?table=jbms&id=112
Some excerpts:
“Also worth noting is the relative strength of comparative linguistic evidence. The nature of comparative linguistic evidence provides large bodies of data—several thousand words per language—that is nonforgeable. Ruins and buildings yield some facts, though who built them is not always one of the facts revealed. Words of a translation can be debated endlessly, [...]
2008 February 26 – 6:31 pm
With really cool bugs!
http://www.langorigami.com/index.php4
2008 February 26 – 3:30 pm
Mimosa pudica – this stuff was all over the place in Guatemala. The tender leaves fold up, drop down, and expose lots of thorns.
