http://blogamundo.net/dev Bringing more translation to the web Mon, 25 Jan 2010 08:08:17 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Hi folks, Long time no talk. Changes are afoot around here. Come check out my new project at http://fileslip.net [caption id="attachment_368" align="aligncenter" width="300" caption=""][/caption] Some of the content from this site will be migrated over there. fileslip.net is a non-commercial project focused on linguistics, language revitalization, language documentation, and doing the same sort ... http://blogamundo.net/dev/2010/01/25/come-check-out-fileslipnet/ Could the "Yae" language of Venezuela in http://tinyurl.com/clp6pm be "Pumé", which has the language code "yae"? http://tinyurl.com/demwl9 http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/05/05/could-the-yae-language-of-ve/ Vietnamese writer Dương Thu Hương's life has been nothing if not dramatic. Once a true believer in the communist ideals of North Vietnam, her increasing disillusion led to her becoming a dissident. Most of her books were banned in her native country, only to achieve international recognition in translation to ... http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/22/vietnamese-%e2%86%92-english-a-dissidents-works-find-an-audience-in-translation/ Encoding woes and data analysis http://tinyurl.com/9ktdp8 http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/13/encoding-woes-and-data-analysi/ An article about Blackfoot language revival efforts written in... Botswana. Check it out: In 1987 ... [Darrell Robes] Kipp, with others, 14-years ago, [opened] the Nizipuhwahsin ("Real Speak") Center. It was intended to be a place where the Piegan language of the Blackfeet people, could be learned-less than one hundred people ... http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/13/language-revitalization-and-social-networking/ Clever tool for translating Wikipedia articles http://tinyurl.com/7p2g3j http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/13/clever-tool-for-translating-wi/ Old Mars "canal" story was mistranslation http://tinyurl.com/78kb8q http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/11/old-mars-canal-story-was-mis/ The Amazing Wikipedia API http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/API http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/09/the-amazing-wikipedia-api-http/ An RDF repository of linguistic info: http://www.lexvo.org/ http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/08/an-rdf-repository-of-linguisti/ Python3.0 rocks: http://tinyurl.com/8xv4mf No decoding nonsense! http://blogamundo.net/dev/2009/01/07/python30-rocks-httptinyur/