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POPSWhy a Semantic Web Will Be Smarter, Faster & All-Around Better In order to take it to the next level, and move from Web 2.0 to Web 3.0—the information in documents will have to be turned into data that machines can read and evaluate autonomously. Only then will computers be able to take over tasks we now have to do ourselves, such as find the nearest restaurant, book the best flight, or buy the cheapest video game.
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POPS"Manifiestos" lingüístics i poder Ferran Saéz dóna el context ideològic i polític correcte al manifest espanyol: canvis en les correlacions de poder(polític, però també ideològic i simbòlic) provoquen reaccions. Ho exemplifica des de començaments del segle XX. I apunta que la conclusió que s'extrau del "manifiesto" és segregacionista i, en el darrer esglaó, d'apartheid previ a l'extermini lingüístic
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POPSUniversal Translator May Be Possible That's a good idea, but what if this alien's perception of the world is different than humans? Even if not entirely alien, one can point at a round red iron object and mean "ball", "red", "iron" or even protons and electrons...
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POPSThe Euphemism Generator In third year linguistics I wrote a report on swearing and euphemisms. I got a B+ for my efforts. It was really a fun paper to write I even used George Carlen as a source. It’s no everyday you see Carlen and Freud cited in the same report. What I found interesting was how words that are euphemisms become vulgar and then we need need euphemisms. Take the word ‘Arse’ for an example, this was considered to be vulgar and the euphemism ‘Ass’ was used instead. Today the roles have reversed, ‘Ass’ is seen as the vulgar and many people will use ‘Arse’ as a euphemism.
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POPSTheory of First Amendment Freedom of Speech Northwestern University Law Review Fall 1988/Winter, 1989 Symposium: Law and Social Theory *54 FREEDOM OF COMMUNICATIVE ACTION: A THEORY OF THE FIRST AMENDMENT FREEDOM OF SPEECH Lawrence B. Solum
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POPSThe word "canadian": a new way to insult black people. That leaves one problem. What do we say to a black guy from Winnipeg. Can't we ask him now if he is "canadian"? For example, go pick up Bob at the airport. How will I recognize him? He is a tall kind of bl..., kind of can.... guy. Ah! never mind. He will take a cab. And the beer ad for Molson's Canadian, I am canadian", takes a whole new meaning now. Say good-bye to the american market.
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POPSSaving dying languages in Nepal But campaigners for indigenous rights went to western Nepal and found a mother and daughter speaking it, and an isolated woman in a different district. They were brought together, and the woman was able to converse in Kusunda for the first time since 1940, when she was 10 years old. Linguistics Professor Madhav Prasad Pokharel said she was "amazingly fluent". Although he has been inspired by the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, he admits that reviving these tiny Nepalese languages is unlikely. But he argues fervently that they can and should be preserved and taught.
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POPSCan't we talk? As a specialist in linguistics, I have studied how the conversational styles of men and women differ. We cannot lump all men or all women into fixed categories. But the seemingly senseless misunderstandings that haunt our relationships can in part be explained by the different conversational rules by which men and women play
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POPS'Yo' is the word when 'he' or 'she' won't do The lack of gender-neutral substitutes for "he"/"she" and "his"/"her" has bothered people for at least two centuries, and "zie" and "hir" are just two of many invented words, including "ter", "ip" and "thon". If such words are not familiar, it is because they - like all attempts to coin a gender-neutral personal pronoun - have failed miserably.
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POPSM.I.T Open Courses I know that M.I.T. has been clipped in the past. However this is a list of updated courses. Please refrain from studying too hard during the festive season
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POPSWhen it's on the tip of your toungue If a picture paints a thousand words, a metaphor paints a million pictures. I love metaphors,so I just thought I'd do a clip then I figured if it was going to fit I was going to have to be more specific. I am amazed at the way a metaphor can translate ideas between people, that may have been mutually exclusive. The way when there is a completely new concept related, we may be unable to find any direct analogy, but a metaphor can provide enough clues to transmit understanding. It can be a case of I can't explain exactly, but I can show you where to look. The way poets, musicians, artists, writers use metaphors creatively to allow new ideas or emotions to be accepted more easily.
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POPSOn Getting Creative Ideas And here is another one by urray Gell-Mann: (Google Tech Talks March 14, 2007). Murray Gell-Mann is one of the largest living legends in physics. He's also been described as The Man With Five Brains, and it's no puzzle why: He was admitted to Yale at 15, got his PhD from MIT at 21, and is an international advisor on the environment. He speaks 13 languages fluently (at last count), and has expertise in such far-ranging fields as natural history, historical linguistics, archeology, bird-watching, depth psychology, and the theory of complex adaptive systems.
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