Igor Delovski Board

[delovski]

In the sentence: "The house will have been being built for six months by
the time they finish."

The verb is: "will have been being built"

The tense of the verb is: Future Perfect tense with Continuous Passive
voice. Simple, huh?

[XNote]

The Birth of a Language

"In at least one case, however, a group of children was able to spontaneously
invent a totally new language out of necessity. The children in question
were deaf, illiterate, and devoid of all but the most basic language skills,
yet they were able to devise an intricate method of communication to use
amongst themselves."

[Ike]

YouTube: Good Morning Don LaFontaine

"The Don' of Movie Trailers & Promos. Here's one of the most memorable
TV segments about our industry. Not really informative but memorable. We
wonder if Don's agent (Tisherman) will send us a bill for airing all these DLF
vids? Air date was Saturday, February 12, 2005."

[delovski]

JoS: What's a "use case" and "case study"?

"In a nutshell:  a Use Case is prospective, being a prescription in terms
of intedned usage; and a Case Study is retrospective, being an analysis of
unintended consequences."

[Ike]

Open culture: Lifehack for Learning Foreign Languages

"Here is a quick 'lifehack' for you. You can now learn foreign languages
and stay current on politics all at once. How so? By taking advantage of a
smart podcast concept being used by French and German broadcasters."

[delovski]

Pick The Brain: George Orwell’s 5 Rules for Effective Writing

"Language is the primary conductor between your brain and the minds of your
audience. Ineffective language weakens and distorts ideas. If you want to be
understood, if you want your ideas to spread, using effective language must
be your top priority."

Plus: How to Teach Yourself a Foreign Language, 5 Great Reasons to Learn
a Foreign Language, Einstein's Theory of Religion, An Easy Way to Get Paid
for Something You Already Do,...

[Ike]

Many English words have Latin roots, but what are the roots of Latin?

"The reason so many etymologies go back to Latin (or Old Latin) and no
further is because that's often as far back as we can trace the written
record for the word."

[delovski]

How to Use English Punctuation Correctly

"Maybe you need to submit a polished, impeccable proposal to your boss? If
so, it will help to know proper usage of punctuation. The following is a list of
common English punctuation marks and their usage."

[delovski]

Wiki: Leet

"Leet or Leetspeak (1337 or 13375p34k) is written form of slang used
primarily on the Internet, but nowadays also in many online video games,
which uses various combinations of alphanumerics to replace proper letters.
The term itself is a degenerative form of the word "elite", and the language
it describes resembles a highly specialized form of electronic shorthand."

[delovski]

csmonitor.com - Rules no one teaches but everyone learns

"In the years since, I've realized that this hunch was right. English and, I
assume, other languages, are full of rules that no one teaches - not to native
speakers anyway - but that everyone learns.

We know to say '21 large green tables' but why not 'green large 21 tables'?
or '21 green large tables'? Is there a rule for this?"

[delovski]

Reddit: Congratulations, you are on Google Earth!

"That is one of the very best, and very funniest translations I have ever read.
Someone stick it through an engine to make it Dutch, and then convert it back
to English and check it out! OK, I did it:

USSEN: The politiekracht had Friday evening 22 add June all sails to that an
obliged twisting drugs user with its car went out in public gone prevents. The
man destroyed with its car complete graangebied. Around 18.25 the report
got of the politiekracht which on Kornpad in Dussen grey Mercedes had ridden
the graangebied in area car."

[Ike]

List of Latin phrases: English translations of common Latin phrases

"veni vidi vici, et cetera..."

[delovski]

ASCII Pronunciation Rules for Programmers, by Jeff Atwood

"So the next time a programmer walks up to you and says, "oh, it's easy!
Just type wax bang at hash buck grapes circumflex and splat wane", you'll
know what they mean."

[XNote]

slashdot - T-Mobile G1 Rooted

"Breaking is not actually a separate action from Entering. The reason they
are used together is for clarity...one word derives from Old English, and the
other word derives from French. Writing laws this way was useful when the
Normans and Saxons were trying to cohabitate on the same island."

[Ike]

Stephen C. Phillips - Morse Code Translator

"Just type letters, numbers and punctuation into the top box and press the
'Translate' button."

[delovski]

everything2.com - The slow reversal of periods and quotation marks

"So the period began to be pushed to the outside of technical quotations.
And even now as the days go by, it permeates the wider English language
more and more."

[Ike]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_names_for_the_Wild_Turkey

[Ike]

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskHistorians/comments/7u8oyk/how_true_is_this_claim_in_1789_50_percent_of_the/

How true is this claim: "...in 1789, 50 percent of the French people did not speak [French] at all, and only 12 to 13 percent spoke it fairly well"?

[delovski]

pnas.org - Nouns slow down speech across structurally and culturally diverse languages

"Even though verbs may be more complex than nouns, nouns thus appear
to require more planning, probably due to the new information they usually
represent. This finding points to strong universals in how humans process
language and manage referential information when communicating
linguistically."

[Ike]

jakubmarian.com - 'Lie in bed' or 'lay in bed' in English

"Lie, lay, lied, laid, layed... Does it even matter? We understand each other
anyway, right? In fact, it does matter. Using an incorrect form increases the
risk of misunderstanding at best, and it may make you sound uneducated."