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Oh, but wordsmiths love to play games with words. The story is told of a minor 17th century French poet who composed 300 sonnets—or as it turned out, only the rhymes for 300 sonnets—that were lost when his personal papers were stolen. So amused were the poet’s friends at this method of writing poems that a [...] If you’re attending this year’s ATA Conference, being held in Denver, Colorado, and you happen to be interested in aerospace terminology, stop by my presentation on Saturday. Details cribbed from the ATA Conference list of sessions by language are shown below. SL-5 Products developed in the United States typically need to be reworked at some point to “internationalize” them, particularly from the perspective of the use of non-Latin characters. Amazon’s Kindle falls into this category of product. UFHack is a hack for the Amazon Kindle 2 (including the international version) and the Kindle DX (including the international [...] One thing I try to take advantage of here in Baikonur is the ability to ask questions of subject-matter experts so as to gain insight into terminology useful for translation. This is an outgrowth of my experience as a so-called “knowledge engineer” back during the second Great Artificial Intelligence Infatuation of the late 1980s, when [...] I ran across the name of Yulia Dubinkina-Ilina a couple of years ago in connection with a parable she apparently wrote that caused me to arch my eyebrows and imagine hearing a little “pop!” of realization. It is a shame her work is not concentrated in one place, or perhaps that makes finding her gems [...] Too many times, I’ve backed up what I thought were relevant parts of my office computer to take along with me on a road trip, only to find, once I’m at my destination, that I hadn’t included some out-of-the-way directory in my backup. Via Lifehacker (Disk2vhd Turns Your PC Into a Virtual Machine), I ran [...] |
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