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Logical punctuation: Should we start placing commas outside quotation marks? - Slate Magazine
www.slate.com/articles/life/the_good_word/2011/05/the_rise_of_logical_punctuation.single.html, posted 2015 by peter in language standard writing
For at least two centuries, it has been standard practice in the United States to place commas and periods inside of quotation marks. This rule still holds for professionally edited prose: what you'll find in Slate, the New York Times, the Washington Post— almost any place adhering to Modern Language Association (MLA) or AP guidelines. But in copy-editor-free zones—the Web and emails, student papers, business memos—with increasing frequency, commas and periods find themselves on the outside of quotation marks, looking in. A punctuation paradigm is shifting.
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A Facelift for Shakespeare - WSJ
www.wsj.com/articles/a-facelift-for-shakespeare-1443194924, posted 2015 by peter in language literature theater
The Oregon Shakespeare Festival will announce next week that it has commissioned translations of all 39 of the Bard’s plays into modern English, with the idea of having them ready to perform in three years. Yes, translations—because Shakespeare’s English is so far removed from the English of 2015 that it often interferes with our own comprehension.
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How Japanese Verbs Really Work: A Primer • /r/LearnJapanese
https://www.reddit.com/r/learnjapanese/comments/3fkogx/_/, posted 2015 by peter in grammar japan language learning toread
A lot of textbooks and websites try to teach you functional Japanese and ignore the grittier parts of the grammar. Unfortunately, this means many learners miss out of the structure and beauty (and structure!) of Japanese that, while complex, might help put things into place. This primer is designed to get you more familiar with what is actually going on with Japanese conjugations. It won't cover everything and may even tell some "simple truths" (aka, white lies you'll unlearn later) but it will get you started on achieving a deeper understanding of Japanese verbs.
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How To Count Anything In Japanese - Tofugu
www.tofugu.com/guides/count-anything-japanese/, posted 2015 by peter in japan language learning list reference
There just isn’t a resource out there that shows the counter with a list of things that can be counted in this way. I’m hoping to fix that with this guide.
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How the Language You Speak Changes Your View of the World
https://agenda.weforum.org/2015/04/how-the-language-you-speak-changes-your-view-of-the-world/, posted 2015 by peter in cognition language parenting science
The past 15 years have witnessed an overwhelming amount of research on the bilingual mind, with the majority of the evidence pointing to the tangible advantages of using more than one language. Going back and forth between languages appears to be a kind of brain training, pushing your brain to be flexible.
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Visiting Japan? You'll love this menu translation service
https://www.techinasia.com/sekai-menu-sapporo-restaurant-menu-translation/, posted 2015 by peter in food japan language startup travel
Sekai Menu (meaning “World Menu” in English), provides multi-language localization of food and beverage menus via QR codes placed around partner restaurants. Users can simply scan the code and place their order via smartphone or tablet, ensuring that neither party gets lost in translation.
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Mainichi.me | Everyday Japanese
www.mainichi.me/, posted 2015 by peter in education japan language online
New Japanese words every day, with kana, romaji and kanji. And colorful pictures, just in case.
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Og eller å? - Aftenposten
www.aftenposten.no/kultur/Og-eller-a-7815770.html, posted 2014 by peter in innorwegian language
Det ser ut til at problemet med å velge mellom konjunksjonen og og infinitivsmerket å blir stadig større, og det går ikke an å skylde bare på oggianerne.
Så även norskan har detta problem...
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複合動詞レキシコン — Compound Verb Lexicon
vvlexicon.ninjal.ac.jp/db/, posted 2014 by peter in japan language online search
An online dictionary to look up Japanese compound verbs (e.g., 仰ぐ "look up to" + 見る "see" = 仰ぎ見る "lift one's head and look up").
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wooorm/franc
https://github.com/wooorm/franc, posted 2014 by peter in development free language nlp opensource python software
Detect the language of text.
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