Word Count
am 17.12.2004 von http://log.handakte.de/This site looks at how we use words and how often we use them. …
Spiel mit Assoziationen
Streitsache / Blog / Human Brain Cloud ist ein Multiplayer-Wort-Assoziations Spiel von Kyle Gabler.The idea is that given a word, a player types in the first thing that comes to mind and the results are combined into a giant network.For instance given the word volcano, a
English vocabulary count/Fast 1 Million englische Wörter
Transblawg / The Independent writes that the English language will soon have its 1-millionth word. * Spanish linguists say there are 225,000 words in contemporary use. * The largest edition of the Duden German-German dictionary contains about 200,000 words * The
Book on untranslatable words/Korinthenkacker
Transblawg / Christopher Moore has written a book, In Other Words, about untranslatables (via translation eXchange). The NPR site lists some of these words/phrases from various languages. It also has an audio link for an interview. They include ilunga, from the T
Proverbs / Sprichwörter
Transblawg / World Wide Words discusses the word perverb (or portmanteau proverb), meaning a perverse proverb, such as ‘Don’t count your chickens before you can walk’; and portmantreau proverbs, meaning those with one letter added, such as ̵
Word of the year / Untiefen der deutschen Sprache
Transblawg / Some organizations look for the English word of the year. In Germany, the search is for the Unwort (non-word) of the year. Bremer Sprachblog points out that people often suggest words that refer to phenomena they dont like, for instance Kopftu
Adopt a German word/Werden Sie Wortpate!
Transblawg / At wortpatenschaft.de you can adopt a German word that is threatened by extinction: Werden Sie Wortpate! Beschützen Sie ein deutsches Wort und übernehmen Sie dafür die Verantwortung: Entwickeln Sie das Wort weiter, pflegen Sie es, h&u
Business and Hi-Tech Dictionary Project
Transblawg / Biztechdictionary.com is a new site within Wordorigins: Biztechdictionary.com is a site aimed at collecting and publishing reference citations of slang and jargon used in high tech industries. The site is very much in “alpha” (to use a go
Hyphenation and word division/Worttrennung
Transblawg / Germans learn word division at school, because they have to do it in handwriting (some German words won't even fit on one line). English speakers encounter it first in MS Word. Most of my German clients deliver electronic files, and they seem to
Threatened German words/Bedrohte Wörter
Transblawg / Following the recent entry on adopting German words, Sonja linked to the Bedrohte Wörter project (via akademie.de/eintrag/1000/bedrohte-woerter-sammlung). This is a much more sensible project, as it has a list (rote Liste) of specifically thre
Threatened German words/Bedrohte Wörter
Transblawg / Following the recent entry on adopting German words, Sonja linked to the Bedrohte Wörter project (via akademie.de/eintrag/1000/bedrohte-woerter-sammlung). This is a much more sensible project, as it has a list (rote Liste) of specifically thre
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