An XML namespace is a great way to ensure consistency in your XML file and to avoid possible conflicts with badly named elements or attributes. An XML Namespace serves as a tool that can be used to spot and outline XML elements, this will make…
Category: Languages
XML is incredibly versatile and great for storing data and transporting it across systems. You can create XML easily enough using a plain text editor. A DTD or XML schema is a useful way of providing other systems with a blueprint of your XML file…
There has been a great deal of hype of late about machine translation and other language technology What is often not noticed is that the hype usually originates from the owners or producers of these tools. The reality is a bit less exciting. Many translation…
A highly fascinating topic of linguistic discussion is in lipograms. For anybody not famliar with what a lipogram is, I shall simplify it. A lipogram is: Anything that you draft (usually a paragraph at minimum) which wholly skips a symbol of all writing symbols. A…
I ran across an interesting site for anyone who is interested in seeing a charted frequency of their name (or comparison of other names with similar spelling) over a long time period. It’s interesting as a mild reference for quick searches regarding possible etymology study…
I found this list of things that ‘Only a Southerner’ knows. It’s a lot like those lists of ‘You know you’re a Southerner if…’ so enjoy. I’m a Texan, and so very much of this is accurate that I find it very entertaining. I love…
My interest in languages, philosophy, psychology, anthropology, and the history of ancient and medieval times leads me down one general path in the arts degrees. The easiest universal degree would be history, linquistics, anthropology, or a combination of one of those with another being a…
This is something that I have wanted to do for some time now, and I think that I may have run across a small jackpot of resources to do it. Primarily, I am interested in Germanic languages and want to learn German to fluency. However,…
One of the things that has always proven difficult for me to grasp easily is the use of gender in langauge. The one I have found the most difficult thus far is Spanish gender, which I am truly convinced must have been selected by the…
Ja, I have been trying to learn German for some time now. Unfortunately, it’s turned in to a significantly more difficult adventure than at first I would have thought. In the couple of years that I have been trying to actively learn the language, I’ve…