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Archive for 26 January 2008
Cognate Identification: Orthographic Methods
Posted: 26 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: algorithms, cognate identification, cognates, computational linguistics, historical linguistics, language change, linguistics, machine translation, natural language processing, orthography, string matching
In previous posts on cognate identification, I discussed the difference between strict and loose cognates. Loose cognates are words in two languages that have the same or similar written forms. I also described how approaches to cognate identification tend to differ based on whether the data being used is plain text or phonetic transcriptions. The [...]
Mein Führer, die Cowboys haben verloren…
Posted: 26 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: cowboys, football, german, hitler, humor, videos, youtube
I’m not at all a sports fan, but even I can appreciate this humor. Sorry if you’ve already seen it (I actually saw it last week and was just reminded of it). My favorite line: “It’s ok, he can afford one, don’t worry.”
To ebay this, to google that
Posted: 26 January 2008 in UncategorizedTags: brands, ebay, english, google, hoover, internet, language, linguistics, twitter, user friendly, verbing nouns, verbs
There is nothing unusual about verbing nouns in English. Despite the fact that your English teacher may have told you not to do this, it is common practice, especially on the intarwebs. Verbing brand names to mean the primary action performed by the chief product of that brand is less common, but we all know [...]
