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American Regional Accent Map

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

This is a map of the USA and Canada, showing what regional accents people speak with. The people who did the surveys are ordinary web users from all over both countries, most of whom found the surveys on discussion boards. Tagged by mabisa under language, map, accents, regionalism, speech,

Speaking UNIX, Part 11: Ramble around the UNIX file system

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under linux, unix, for:msicili1, tutorial, howto,

African women speak out against Bush’s abstinence-promoting HIV/AIDS policies

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under BlogEntry, hiv, AIDS, policy, africa, reproductiverights, abstinence,

I Chat, Therefore I Am... | Technology | DISCOVER Magazine

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Can a smooth-talking robot initiate good conversation, generate witty responses, and reveal profound thoughts? See what happens when two chatbots speak to each other Tagged by mabisa under AI, chat, technology, language, article, Discover, chatbots, ALICE, TuringTest, bots, ArtificialIntelligence,

Bilingualism delays onset of dementia - health - 12 January 2007 - New Scientist

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

People who are fully bilingual and speak both languages every day for most of their lives can delay the onset of dementia by up to four years compared with those who only know one language Tagged by mabisa under dementia, language, biligualism, article, NewScientist, Alzheimers,

Rolling Stone : Sacha Baron Cohen -- the Real Borat -- Finally Speaks

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

n his only interview as himself, Sacha Baron Cohen talks about growing up kosher in London, inventing a new kind of comedy with Ali G and conquering Hollywood with Borat Tagged by mabisa under Borat, SachaCohen, interview, article, RollingStone,

AlterNet: War on Iraq: A Soldier Speaks: For Female Soldiers, Sexual Assault Remains a Danger

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

According to the Pentagon, there were 2,374 reported cases of sexual assault against women in uniform over the past year. But as the saga of military police officer Suzanne Swift shows, numbers alone don't tell the whole story. Tagged by mabisa under article, sexism, women, army, military, AlterNet, assault, sexualassault, harrasment,

eCuaderno 3.0: Pistas, noticias y enlaces sobre Cibercultura, Medios, eComunicacion y Blogging por Jose Luis Orihuela y sus invitados

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

10 Steps into the Spanish Speaking Blogosphere: links to sites et al Tagged by mabisa under Spanish, blogs,

Reason: Disney's War Against the Counterculture: Why a decades-old copyright case matters now more than ever.

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

One of the longest and most absurd in the history of attempts to use copyright to stifle artistic expression in America. The lessons learned from it are more relevant than ever to anyone who chooses parody as a way to speak to power, especially corporate Tagged by mabisa under copyright, law, disney, culture, mickeymouse, article, IP, fairuse, parody,

Language Log: Speaking sarcastically?

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

There are plenty of utterances that are used to mean the opposite of what they literally say, and there's a lot to say about how this works. I could care less might be an example of this -- though I don't think so Tagged by mabisa under BlogEntry, LanguageLog, sarcasm, usage, icouldcareless, Pinker, stress, prosody,

How to Speak 19th Century

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

I have chosen a book written in 1830 and combed it for its vocabulary. Tagged by mabisa under language, history, English, dictionary, phrases, vocabulary,

The Aardvark Speaks: Why Wikipedia sucks. Big time.

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

It turns out that the great advantage of the Wikipedia, the wiki format, which allows everybody to add/edit everything, is also its greatest disadvantage. Tagged by mabisa under wikis, wikipedia, critique, BlogEntry,

NYO - News Story 2

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Whatever it is, a distinct group of young women in the American Northeast are speaking with warped syllables that are a linguistic love song to their own exclusive milieu. Tagged by mabisa under language, linguistics, accent, nyc, dialect, women, trends, accents, dialects, uptalk,

... translate TXT, sms, chat room slang, IM speak and lingo... acronyms, smileys, & emoticons with transl8it!

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

transl8it! iz simpl 2 uz! jst typ n yor SMS, TXT o ch@ spEk & Lt transL8it! cvert it 2 pln eng...ok, my head hurts. Tagged by mabisa under sms, translation, textmessaging, texting, IM, messaging, tehsux0r,

Untitled

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Of all the types of media used to disseminate the Ad there is only one which is entirely inescapable to all but the bedridden shut-in or the Thoreauian misanthrope. We speak, of course of the Billboard. Tagged by mabisa under CultureJamming, GuerillaArt, activism, StreetArt, media, advertising, art, billboards,

The Best of British - The American's guide to speaking British...

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Tagged by mabisa under language, slang, british, english, reference, lexicon,

Speak, Darwinists!

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Interviews with leading evolutionists. Tagged by mabisa under evolution, evolutionists, Darwinism, interviews, interview, scientists, biology,

The Pop vs. Soda Page

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

Using the World Wide Web to gather and process data from across English-speaking North America, I intend to plot the regional variations in the use of the terms "Pop" and "Soda" to describe carbonated soft drinks. Tagged by mabisa under maps, map, language, dialects, speech, statistics, demographics, pop, soda, culture, linguistics, words, anthropology, us, america,

Advertising Age - Digital - The Language Everyone Speaks

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

If control is the lingua franca of marketers worldwide, then a quiet revolt is under way. Consumers are tearing down the wall that separates two diametrically opposed forms of marketing: control and collaboration. Tagged by mabisa under marketing, advertising, web2.0, media2.0, article, AdAge, SteveRubel, business,

Non-Errors

mabisa — Thu, 24 Jan 2008 05:01:00 -0500

English is a brawling, promiscuous drunkard of a language made up of mispronounced and stolen words from other languages, and that's what makes it such a glory to speak. Usage pecksniffs who try to tell you that colorful, unambiguous, expressive turns of Tagged by mabisa under language, english, usage, grammar, use,