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Denotation (#HTTP #URI function) and Connotation (#HTTP #URL function): #LinkedData #SemanticWeb #Language #Media
#media #language #linkeddata #HTTP #URI #URL #SemanticWeb

BASIC Co-Inventor Thomas E. Kurtz has Passed Away.

It’s with sadness that we note the passing of Thomas Eugene Kurtz, on November 12th. He was co-inventor of the BASIC programming language back in the 1960s. The legacy of his work lives on in the generation of technologists.

>10 PRINT "Rest in Peace"
>20 GOTO 10

https://computerhistory.org/blog/in-memoriam-thomas-e-kurtz-1928-2024/

#memoriam #ThomasKurtz #rip #basic #programming #language #tech #science #history #it #engineer #media #news
The origins of BASIC lie in the Dartmouth Timesharing System, like similar timesharing operating systems of the day, designed to allow the resources of a single computer to be shared across many terminals. In this case the computer was at Dartmouth College, and BASIC was designed to be a language with which software could be written by average students who perhaps didn’t have a computing background. In the decade that followed it proved ideal for the new microcomputers, and few were the home computers of the era which didn’t boot into some form of BASIC interpreter. Kurtz continued his work as a distinguished academic and educator until his retirement in 1993, but throughout he remained as the guiding hand of the language.
[ImageSource: Computerhistory.org] “Thomas Eugene Kurtz (Feb. 22 1928–Nov. 12, 2024) was an American mathematician, computer scientist and co-inventor, with John Kemeny, of the BASIC programming language and Dartmouth Timesharing System.”

In Memoriam: Thomas E. Kurtz, 1928–2024 - CHM

CHM remembers the remarkable career and contributions of 2023 Fellow Thomas E. Kurtz, who passed away on November 12, 2024.
hhackford (Computer History Museum)
#science #news #history #tech #media #language #rip #it #engineer #programming #memoriam #thomaskurtz #basic

Just started on Duolingo for Portuguese and the app is teaching me phrases like "He reads a newspaper."

I'm like: "Look, bird, print journalism is dead, okay? No one is reading newspapers anymore."

#language #duolingo #journalism
#journalism #language #duolingo

Updated to include new entry on how to improve toilets! https://daisybrain.medium.com/lets-simplify-culture-a00bfaaecedd

#blog #humor #jokes #language #culture #society
#humor #culture #blog #language #jokes #society

दिल्ली के सरकारी स्कूलों के 30 बच्चे पढ़ाई करने फ्रांस गए, फ्रांसीसी दूतावास से हुआ था करार।

https://aliyesha.com/sub/articles/news/display/nd_delhi_government_school_going_to_france

#newdelhi #delhi #india #press #news #politics #aap #GovernmentSchool #school #education #france #french #language #skills #governance

Enjoy tracker free reading with us. #privacy #privacymatters

नई दिल्ली: दिल्ली के सरकारी स्कूलों के 30 बच्चे पढ़ाई करने फ्रांस गए, फ्रांसीसी दूतावास से हुआ था करार।

दिल्ली सरकार के स्कूली बच्चों ने एक नया इतिहास लिख दिया है। पूरे भारत में शायद पहली बार किसी सरकारी स्कूलों में 9वीं से 12वीं में पढ़ने वाले 30 बच्चे एक साथ फ्रेंच भाषा की पढ़ाई करने के लिए पेरिस भेजे गए हैं।
दिल्ली ब्यूरो (Aliyesha)
#news #privacy #politics #education #press #france #french #language #skills #India #governance #school #privacymatters #newdelhi #delhi #aap #GovernmentSchool

Japan's 2024 buzzword nominations list includes the slush fund scandal, Shohei Ohtani's 50-50 milestone, a hit song and a wealth of moments from the Paris Olympics. https://www.japantimes.co.jp/news/2024/11/05/japan/society/japan-buzzword-nominations-2024/ #japan #society #buzzwords #shoheiotani #tourism #language #nihongo #media #socialmedia #2024parisolympics #mynumber
#tourism #socialmedia #media #language #Japan #society #2024parisolympics #buzzwords #shoheiotani #nihongo #mynumber

« Language addresses itself to the ear. No other medium does this. The ear is the most spiritually determined of the senses. That I believe most men will admit. Aside from language, music is the only medium that addresses itself to the ear. Herein is again an analogy and a testimony concerning the sense in which music is a language. »

― Søren Kierkegaard

🔗 · https://poligraf.tumblr.com/post/733012097218297856/language-addresses-itself-to-the-ear-no-other

#quotes #SørenKierkegaard #music #language

Poligraf · The Artistic Impulse

Language addresses itself to the ear. No other medium does this. The ear is the most spiritually determined of the senses. That I believe most men will admit. Aside from language, music is the only...
poligraf (Tumblr)
#music #quotes #language #sorenkierkegaard

Seriously Europe, get your water bodies straight.

#Etymology #Language #Linguistics
Table showing the words for lake and sea in English, French, Spanish, German and Dutch. | English | lake | sea | | French | lac | mer | | Spanish | lago | mar | | German | see | meer | | Dutch | meer | zee |
#language #linguistics #etymology

... just found out that a Southern term for a dung beetle is "tumbleturd"

You're welcome

#nature #animals #folklore #language
#Nature #animals #folklore #language

The epic I am currently reading described a horny god's state of mind as "a welter of prurient thoughts"

And I am now thinking this could be a great title for... something?

What would you use this phrase for?

😄😄

#epics #WomensEpics #language #storytelling
#storytelling #language #epics #womensepics

2. Language, linguistics

The Invention of Clouds: How an Amateur Meteorologist Forged the Language of the Skies (Richard Hamblyn)

The story of how cloud types were named by Luke Howard at the turn of the 19th century. The book gives great historical context starting from the 1600s, about the birth of meteorology and the difficulties of cloud classification. I finally learned how the categories work.

https://www.amazon.com/Invention-Clouds-Amateur-Meteorologist-Language/dp/0312420013

#cloud #language #linguistics #nonfiction #history #books #bookstodon
#history #books #bookstodon #cloud #language #linguistics #nonfiction

I find it kinda hilarious that in some folk traditions swearing was used to ward off evil spirits.

Me: *swearing elaborately and profusely*

Demon: *clutches pearls* "Well, I never...!"

Swearing saves souls people 😄

#folklore #swearing #language
#folklore #language #swearing

Jamie

2024-04-18 16:08:02


#ukraine
Image/Photo


#ukrainian #russian #language on #map of #failstate
#ukraine #language #russian #ukrainian #map #failstate

#Hungarian expression of the day:

"A béka segge alatt" = "Under the frog's ass"

(Very, very low, in mood or in quality. I.e. "The economy is under the frog's ass.")

For more severe cases, there is "Under the burrowing frog's ass."

🐸 🐸 🐸

#animals #language
#animals #language #hungarian

👀 😯 oh wow #antarctic #language
Screenshot Antarctic English - Wikipedia : en.m.wikipedia.org *~ Vocabulary ’ Antarctic English features various words that are not used in other varieties of English. Differences in vocabulary include: British English // Antarctic English Sleeping chamber // Donga Antarctica // The Ice Homebrew beer // Homer Insomnia // Big Eye Antarctic English also has over 200 words for different types of ice. Words include tabulars (large flat-topped southern icebergs that break off from the Antarctic ice sheet and are usually over ten miles long), and growlers (underwater decaying icebergs roughly the size of a house).l?! In addition, the tourism industry has terms for different types of tourist encounters, such as Kodak poisoning (what happens when many tourists take photographs of the same site) and Dead-Penguin Tours (a type of tour in the late summer after penguins have abandoned weak chicks to die, leaving their bodies in popular tourist destinations, which causes grief in tourists.
#language #antarctic

Poles as well as Russians say and write NA Ukraine, only Ukrainian nationalists, after 1991 to avoid being like the Russians, say W Ukraine.
Taras Shevchenko, the greatest Ukrainian poet wrote NA Ukraine.

Bild/Foto

#ukraine #map #language #difference
#ukraine #language #map #difference

Does anyone have a good alternative to #Duolingo for learning #Gaelic ? I hear Duo is doing some shady things...

#language #Irish
#irish #language #duolingo #gaelic

Happy HURKLE-DURKLE Day everyone!

#boxingday #humor #humour #scots #language #hurkledurkle
Postcard with stars above and below the text. Word of the day: Hurkle-durkle. A 200-year-old Scottish term meaning to lounge in bed long after it's time to get up. Happiness is Hurkle-Durkling.
#humour #humor #language #hurkledurkle #scots #boxingday

Update. Can #AI solve the problem of #language #discrimination (good research by non-native speakers rejected from English-language journals on the ground of weak English)?
https://www.timeshighereducation.com/blog/ai-writing-tools-will-not-fix-academias-language-discrimination-problem
(#paywalled)

Natalia Kucirkova argues no. The best bots may be good enough. But they are not accessible to all who need them, and "non-native researchers still have to invest extra time & more dollars to fix their papers than their native colleagues."

#Multilingualism #MultilingualResearch

AI writing tools will not fix academia’s language discrimination problem

Affordable AI-powered writing software offers some hope to scholars unfairly criticised for their imperfect English, but more radical change is required, says Natalia Kucirkova
Natalia Kucirkova (Times Higher Education (THE))
#ai #language #discrimination #multilingualresearch #multilingualism #paywalled

I just learned from a book that flapper lingo for something very cool was "It's the kitty's eyebrows." 😆🐱

In case the bee's knees are not enough.

#caturday #cats #language #Roaring20s
#Caturday #Cats #language #roaring20s

Every German has a special inner place to be "snapped" into. If there's a problem, they just "click" into position, and everything can continue to operate normally.

When I learned the word "eingeschnappt" it was like a veil lifting from my eyes.

https://dict.leo.org/german-english/eingeschnappt

#language #languagelearning #germanlanguage

eingeschnappt - Translation in LEO’s ­English ⇔ German Dictionary

Learn the translation for ‘eingeschnappt’ in LEO’s ­English ⇔ German­ dictionary. With noun/verb tables for the different cases and tenses ✓ links to audio pronunciation and relevant forum discussions ✓ free vocabulary trainer ✓
dict.leo.org
#language #languagelearning #germanlanguage

Foreigners often complain about #English words creeping into their native languages.

If only they knew.

In my homeland, English has taken over so completely, most residents speak it as a first #language. They wouldn't even be able to tell you the name of our native language.

It's #Massachusetts. 🙄

That's the language. That is what it is called.
#massachusetts #language #english

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