Authorware: $349 Adobe: Couldn't find a pricelist, but there are forms or something for discounted software. XP (Standard/Professional): To be resold at about $8 (in fact, at my school on Monday, Microsoft was giving away XP and VS.NET).
All of these were found by searching the respective sites with the term "student pricing."
I'm a triple major in CS, Linguistics, and German.
I just want to amend the above statement. Linguistics isn't the study of languages, but the study of language. It's about how language works, how people use it, and other issues surrounding it.
Really, you can do translation software if you are fairly competent in another language. Most people who are can usually see parallels between the two languages, making translation easier.
However, I of course don't want to dissuade anyone from studying linguistics. If you get turned on by tree structures, grammars, and syntactic analysis, it's definitely a start.:)
All a speaker needs to be literate is to learn the mapping between sounds and letters. Could anything be easier?
Actually, yes; the way we currently do things. Using a phonetic alphabet as the sole method of writing could perhaps be easy for speakers in the same area, but what about others? I live in the Midwest, and I know that I don't pronounce the word "pie" the same way as someone from the South. Granted, English spelling leaves something to be desired, but the fact that it can be understood by English speakers all over the world is what matters.
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I'm somewhat skeptical. How are they determining vowel sounds? Can it see well enough that I'm making a high back vowel or a low back vowel?
/b/ and /b/, or /d/ and /t/? Or perhaps aspiration?
Also, how would you distinguish between voiced and unvoiced pairs, such as
There is more to speaking than just "face muscles."
Ben
Most companies offer student/education discounts:
Authorware: $349
Adobe: Couldn't find a pricelist, but there are forms or something for discounted software.
XP (Standard/Professional): To be resold at about $8 (in fact, at my school on Monday, Microsoft was giving away XP and VS.NET).
All of these were found by searching the respective sites with the term "student pricing."
Ben
I'm a triple major in CS, Linguistics, and German.
:)
I just want to amend the above statement. Linguistics isn't the study of languages, but the study of language. It's about how language works, how people use it, and other issues surrounding it.
Really, you can do translation software if you are fairly competent in another language. Most people who are can usually see parallels between the two languages, making translation easier.
However, I of course don't want to dissuade anyone from studying linguistics. If you get turned on by tree structures, grammars, and syntactic analysis, it's definitely a start.
Ben
...we should all probably watch this. It has a very enlightening view of cloning, and what can go wrong. Parts is parts, you know.
Ben
All a speaker needs to be literate is to learn the mapping between sounds and letters. Could anything be easier?
Actually, yes; the way we currently do things. Using a phonetic alphabet as the sole method of writing could perhaps be easy for speakers in the same area, but what about others? I live in the Midwest, and I know that I don't pronounce the word "pie" the same way as someone from the South. Granted, English spelling leaves something to be desired, but the fact that it can be understood by English speakers all over the world is what matters.
Ben