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Speaking Cornish is so easy, I can do it in my sleep!
Last night, I dreamed I was at a Cornish-speaking event and I actually spoke in Cornish when someone asked me about something I was doing!
It was a bit slow and halting as I searched for words and the right conjugation, but I was speaking Cornish in (near) real time, to another person, and I remember feeling rather proud of myself for that!
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Cornish homonyms
I just noticed that ‘I used to love Karen’ is ‘Y karen Karen’ in Cornish (SWF/M spelling).
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May the 4th be with you!
Dun dun dun, dun de-dun, dun de-dun... dun dun dun, dun de-dun, dun de-dun.
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Philip Newton, horse breeder
Another alter ego of mine: Philip Newton, horse breeder.
You wouldn’t believe what all I do in my spare time! :D
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Chemistry fail
One of the very first things we learned in chemistry (it may even have been on the first day) was the difference between chemical compounds and mixtures, and how the properties of a mixture are a combination of the properties of the components but the properties of a compound may be very different.
The example we used was iron filings mixed with ( Read more... ) -
Long cows
I just found out that Czech has “1 kráva; 5 krav” while Slovak has “1 krava; 5 kráv” with exactly opposite vowel length distribution in those two forms. Amusing :)
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Wikipedia: access to languages by country
Wikimedia stats: pages views per country
Interesting statistics about which language versions of Wikipedia are accessed in various countries.
Unsurprisingly, the official language of the various countries tends to do well (if there is just one); also fairly unsurprisingly (since it's probably the most complete), the English version tends to do ( Read more... ) -
Finger macros
In German, “Stelle” means “place” and I sometimes have occasion to type that… but what usually comes out is “Stella” (the name of my wife). A kind of auto-complete that my fingers do without thinking, once they “notice” what word I’m beginning to type :)
What are your most common finger macros, where you keep having to correct yourself with ( Read more... ) -
LJ often unusable: LJ's fault or Opera's?
Today, LiveJournal often doesn't react to keypresses (such as page-down to scroll, 2 to go a tab to the right, or even Ctrl+W to close a tab); it seems to be more or less random (if I open ten tabs, three might be wonky and the other seven work).
I wonder whether that's due to the Opera update I installed this morning or whether it's just ( Read more... ) -
V.90 modem handshake diagram
The Sound of the Dialup: an Example Handshake by Oona Räisänen (2500×1301px JPEG, cc-by-sa 3.0)
via dotaturls
A fascinating, annotated image of what a modem handshake (V.90, apparently) looks like when split up into frequences (is that called a spectrogram?), and what the individual bits mean.
A pity that my modem days were so long ago that I don’t ( Read more... )
