24 December 2009 – 8:00 PM
The tune Gabriel by cosmic disco band Kindness is probably among the more intriguing musical releases from 2009. (You should be able to play the whole track above. If not, try Kindness on Myspace or the Pitchfork blog post where I found it.)
Although lyrically apt, it’s not a Christmas song as such. But this is [...]
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24 December 2009 – 12:44 AM
This article on “difficult languages” is The Economist at its absolute best.
My title above is Turkish and apparently means “Were you one of those people whom we could not make into a Czechoslovakian?”.
I especially liked the bit about different kinds of “we” in Kwaio, which is spoken in the Solomon Islands. We need something like [...]
14 December 2009 – 9:26 PM
Easyjet have recently changed their website. Now you get a language selection screen. So far so good I guess (for a website).
But unfortunately instead of just the names of languages, there are flags as well.
The flags on this page may look colourful, but having them there is WRONG.
I’m not being pedantic here. It is simply [...]
11 December 2009 – 12:15 PM
Wyt ti’n sgennu gwefan yn y Gymraeg? Wyt ti eisiau parhau ac agor mynediad dy wefan?
Dyma sut ti’n gallu ychwanegu Google Translate i dy flog neu gwefan.
http://www.google.com/webelements/translate/
Pwysig! Rhaid i ti newid “pageLanguage: en” ac ysgrifennu “pageLanguage: cy” yn lle. (Neu dy côd iaith dau lythyr rwyt ti’n defnyddio yn barod!)
Enghraifft: gwela Y Twll ar y [...]
9 December 2009 – 1:06 PM
Remember the recent All Wales Convention? Yesterday they sent me this message via Facebook:
Diolch am ymaelodi a’r Grwp hwn. Gan fod yr Adroddiad wedi ei gyhoeddi bellach, rydym wedi cadw cofnod o gynnwys y Grwp Gweplyfr a’i ddirwyn i ben.
Thanks for joining the Group. Since the Report has now been published, we have kept a [...]
2 December 2009 – 1:49 PM
Entschuldigung! Germany now has its own edition of the Sleeveface book. The book is out now through the Cadeau imprint of German publisher Hoffmann und Campe.
You can get more info on the German edition at the main Sleeveface site. The original version of the book is also out now.
Still on the web: my original post [...]
