It is hard to understand why traditional publishers are so recalcitrant in making electronic editions worth their comparatively high prices.
Category Archive: Language
An important collection of essays which are extremely well written, and well worth reading, and reading again.
How can I set up a dictionary of placenames, which I can then access throughout my applications?
This is a book to dip into only if you have good self-control: one word will lead to another, until you have visited each of the 500 or so.
Macs have always provided good tools to support writing in different languages, and Yosemite has continued to advance them. But how can you tailor and extend them?
We who forge words into documents lack anything as powerful as Illustrator or Photoshop are to graphics.
Semantic primes represent “the complete inventory of simple universal concepts that are embedded in the lexicons of all (or most) human languages.” Do they suffice?
The relationship between language and thought has exercised many great minds. Is Goddard and Wierzbicka’s attempt any advance?
Celebrating the bicentenaries of Charles Dickens and Henry Mayhew with a couple of concordance tools.
If the designers of Go and Rust had read the work of Sapir and Whorf, they would have realised that to accomplish real change in programming requires greater change in the language used.
The Eclectic Light Company 