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5 Languages That Could Change the Way You See the World
I went to my neighbor’s house for something to eat yesterday. Think about this sentence. It’s pretty simple—English speakers would know precisely what it means. But what does it actually tell you—or, more to the point, what does it not tell you? It doesn’t specify facts like the subject’s gender or the neighbor’s, or what direction the speaker traveled, or the nature of the neighbors’ relationship, or whether the food was just a cookie or a complex curry. English doesn’t require speakers to give any of that information, but if the sentence were in French, say, the gender of every person involved would be specified. The way that different languages convey information has fascinated linguists, anthropologists, and psychologists for decades. This argument was later discredited, as researchers concluded that it overstated language’s constraints on our minds. A Language Where You’re Not the Center of the World A Language Where Time Flows East to West A Language Where Colors Are Metaphors
Ghyll Round 2 Starting Soon | Gamegrene.com
Eight months ago, Gamegrene launched an interactive worldbuilding and roleplaying exercise called Ghyll. Constrained to a small set of rules and the intent of building an integrated encyclopedia where Truth is further refined with each entry, Round 1 is nearly finished, and Round 2 is set to begin in the middle of May. If you're interested in playing, start reading. Eight months ago, some may recall an odd little announcement about the Gamegrene multiplayer game Ghyll. Round 1, of 26 turns each representing an alphabet letter, is nearly done. Today is the last day for entries starting with Y. If you're interested in joining Round 2 (currently scheduled to start May 14th, a month from now), the first thing to do is start reading. Leave comments here if you've questions, thoughts, or confusions.
PULP-O-MIZER: the custom pulp magazine cover generator
When you purchase your custom pulp magazine cover on a printed product, the reliable Pulp-O-Mizer cranks it up to high gear and - after a few seconds of groaning and sputtering - it spits out a high resolution image at (or even over) 300 pixels to the inch. The image is immediately transmitted across the sub aetheric waves, and, well! That's when things really get interesting. We entrust your orders to well trained, electrically motivated henchmen and henchwomen. When your order arrives at our hidden facility these henchpersons burst into action: the presses fly, the hamster wheels spin, the Interociter... well... we think it interocirates, sort of, and when all's done a high quality Pulp-O-Mized product flies out of its mysterious mechanism and is swept up, before it can escape, by the unflinching claws of our own patented Ship-O-Matic. But even now, the adventure has barely begun! These no-nonsense couriers are ready for anything! We salute them! * Heroism is assumed, but not guaranteed.
The World Atlas of Language Structures Online
NeuroSpell. correcteur automatique neuronal (Deep Learning) + traducteur automatique neuronal (Neural Machine Translation / NMT)
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Dalek Amigurumi pattern by Lucy Ravenscar
These are instructions to make a classic 1970s grey and black Dalek or a bronze and gold new series Dalek. They are quite complicated, using different stitches and some difficult colour changes, so this pattern is recommended for fairly experienced amigurumi crocheters. Materials: Use double knitting (dk) weight yarn. This is equivalent to light worsted, although worsted weight should work just fine, as long as you use the same weight of yarn throughout. For classic grey and black Dalek: Approx 35g grey yarn. Approx 20g black yarn. For new series bronze and gold Dalek: Approx 35g ‘bronze’ mid brown yarn. For both: Small amount of blue yarn. Finished size: approximately 7” tall
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WordBrewery. Améliorer son vocabulaire dans une langue étrangère
Mise à jour avril 2019 : Malheureusement WordBrewery n’accepte plus de nouveaux comptes. WordBrewery est une plateforme en ligne qui va vous aider à développer votre vocabulaire de base dans une langue étrangère. Elle s’appuie sur des phrases extraites chaque jour d’articles de presse. Comment pratiquer une langue avec des phrases de tous les jours quand on n’est pas immergé dans la réalité d’un pays ? WordBrewery offre une réponse avec une application Web d’apprentissage des langues originales qui se base sur l’actualité d’où sont extraites de petites phrases permettant d’apprendre ou de réviser le vocabulaire de base de la langue étudiée. WordBrewerry a calculé que les 2 500 mots les plus courants dans n’importe quelle langue représentent 95 % du vocabulaire quotidien. Vous allez pouvoir choisir un niveau pour démarrer : débutant, intermédiaire ou expert. La version gratuite de WordBrewery vous permet de travailler 30 nouvelles phrases par mois ce qui est un peu léger.
ProFantasy Software ~ map making for RPG, game, historical and h
