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47 languages, not terribly actively maintained.
I believe this was originally created by one of their Finnish researchers in XRCE Grenoble once upon a time ... I also got the impression that this one was the first to make a conscious effort at supporting different character set encodings.
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        <title><![CDATA[Verbix -- conjugate verbs in 100+ languages]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[UsingEnglish.com - Learning English (ESL) Online]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[TOEIC Test of English]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Statistical NLP / corpus-based computational linguistics resources]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[Framework for a music markup language]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[WWW.MULTILINGUAL.CH - Englisch Ãbersetzungen & Korrekturlesen - Tanya Harvey Ciampi, Tessin, Schweiz]]></title>
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More solid language models than TextCat, and they use a similar format, so you can use the mguesser models with TextCat and vice versa.
It's written in C, so it's faster, too.
The web page is hideous, but the tool is good.
This is available as a Debian package as well.
See also <http://de.lirio.us/entry/5421>
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        <title><![CDATA[Katakana Chart 1/2]]></title>
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        <title><![CDATA[THE IRANIAN: Features: Language, Persian or Farsi]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[/me pontificating on the question being begged
Turns out that the linked page is not quite as stupid as the headline makes it seem. But nevertheless, I think it would be good to realize that this is all a question of understanding your audience's needs.
Audience: You yourself, or a close-knit group of people. Needs: None you can't handle yourself anyhow. Strategy: Don't bother to tag or organize anything just for the sake of being organized.
Audience: Any size. Needs: Data is easy to classify unambiguously. Strategy: Just do that then.
Audience: You yourself, or a close-knit group of people. Needs: A significant amount of data but not important or complex enough to spend "real effort" on. Strategy: Come up with some ad-hoc tags, and try to stick to them.
Audience: A larger or more diverse group. Needs: Data is hard to classify unambiguously. Strategy: This is not a solved problem, but ontology, controlled language, terminology, taxonomy, etc are some of the strategies we have.
It's never wrong to spend more time on using a more advanced strategy than you absolutely need, if somehow you can find the resources to keep on doing that. Needs evolve and it's very hard to upgrade to a better strategy later, so if you can imagine that what you have now might not be sufficient one day, it's a good idea to spend some extra effort now.
Who should be responsible for standardizing tags, when that need exists? I don't think that's an important question. When a tag is already in widespread use, and/or likely to be the one your audience will search for, it would be stupid not to use it, though. This can incidentally be generalized to another principle -- if some other categorization system already exists for the data you are tagging, it's likely that you are doing something wrong. (But of course, using tags in parallel with some other system might make sense.)
The other mistake to watch out for is whimsical tagging. It scares me to see what tags people use (that includes my own tags, when I revisit them, more often than I like). If you don't know what a tag means, don't use it, or find out more about it.
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        <description><![CDATA[Demonstration of the perils of machine translation
Looks like somebody thought Babelfish is probably good enough for production copy.
(If you don't read Finnish, don't bother clicking on the link.)
Hint (actual Google translate loop translation English -> French -> English):
To resemble to somebody thought that Babelfish is probably enough good for the copy of production.
... Actually, upon closer examination, this doesn't look like the result of blind application of machine translation. It looks more like a desperate amateur with a Finnish dictionary but no knowledge of the language. For one thing, simple words like "has" are untranslated in some places. For another, terms are translated inconsequently; in some places, it's "San Frans" [sic] whereas in others they have kept "San Francisco".
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        <description><![CDATA[Download the SUSANNE, CHRISTINE, and LUCY English corpora
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        <description><![CDATA[File directory structure of the divvun.no CVS
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        <title><![CDATA[Damn Interesting Â» Another World]]></title>
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        <description><![CDATA[The PirahÃ£, a Brazilian tribe, cannot count beyond three and their language lacks recursion
The comments from readers are outrageous, as usual.
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        <description><![CDATA[Compounding errors in Finnish, and hints for how to learn to write compounds correctly
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        <description><![CDATA[Chart of colors with their names in several languages
Their choice of languages is a little tendentious, though ... The prevalent languages are Finnish, English, German, French, and apparently some Slavic language (I'm guessing Czech, or possibly Slovak)
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