Actually, "caveat boner" would be "boner beware"*. The boner isn't the one who needs the warning. I don't have the latin skills to fix it, but maybe someone else will.
LanguageTool is the program. He has apparently rewritten it in Java since I last looked at it. His thesis is in the docs section of the webpage. It looks to be more of a standalone app now with an API that other programs can call.
I'm doing my MA project on spell checkers for L2 learners, and in the course of readings for it I've run across a few papers on grammar checkers as well.
There are opensource grammar checkers out there. Or at least one. Of course this article hits the day I don't have my big notebook of papers with me at work, so I don't have the reference and url. But someone did their MA thesis work writing a grammar checker (more acurately called a style checker) for KWord. You have to patch and recompile KWord, but it gives you something along the same lines as MS Word's.
Most of the comments about grammar here have been incredibly stupid, by the way. Here's an important thing you learn in an intro to ling class: all languages are equally complicated. It's not going to be easier to write a grammar checker for any language above any other. e.g. You might have to worry more about morphology in one language and word order in another.
There isn't a complete grammar written for any language. There's good reference grammars for a lot of the major ones, and for dead languages you can call it a complete grammar if it makes you feel better. No native speakers can tell you what you got wrong there.
Given that Bin Laden's main beef with the US is about military bases in Saudi Arabia, and most of the hijackers were Saudi, I'm going to guess that Bush's father is a better one to blame than Clinton.
But like you hinted, the geopolitics are even more complicated than that.
Where I work laptops are only allowed on the wireless network, which is on its own vlan, which has all Windows related ports firewalled off from the rest of the network.
All the wired connections have portsecurity, so if the MAC isn't on the access list for that port the port shuts down.
Of course, then we have the research vlan where a bunch of clueless grad students treat the machines like they're their home machines and click on everything.
Foiled again! Although that number is pretty close to what I originally said, which leads me to believe I saw a number like that somewhere.
For Columbus it's pretty easy to define the 'area'. There's Columbus proper, then head out any direction , go past the outerbelt, go through a suburb, et voila: CORN! Or said in a less silly way, it's all of Franklin county, although soon enough Columbus will swallow up Delaware to the north too. Muhaha.
Curses! Bad reading on my part for sure. Actually, it makes me feel better to know that NYC has only 4 times the population of the greater Columbus, OH area instead of 10 times. Much easier to wrap my head around. Must be my Ohioan inferiority complex that made me believe NYC is so much bigger.
1. Go to amazon.co.uk 2. Click on the "Your account" button 3. Follow the link called "Update your communication preferences" 4. Sign in 5. Change your preferences. They're all pretty straight forward. There's even one called "Don't send me any messages that aren't related to my orders, bids or services that I sign up for directly."
I disagree. A real linguist would design a language that's a lot less of a mess than perl. The goal of linguistics is to understand the underlying logical structure of language in the mind; it's not to create a computer language as tough to parse as a natural language. Most formal linguists seem to prefer Prolog, Lisp, or Python. (Yes, fine, Prolog and Lisp can be hard to get the mind around.) If Perl gets used at all it's just the PCRE library for other languages or a quicky program to convert something using regular expressions.
Larry Wall is trained as a field linguist. He started out trying to collect field data to translate the bible into new languages in order to convert people. (Personally, I find that quite icky. Although I do appreciate the resources SIL has provided.) I'm pretty sure any formal stuff he picked up was much later as a programmer.
Knight is spelled the way it is because it used to be pronounced kuh-nig-it
No. It was pronounced/knext/. Not like Monty Python.
You've added an epenthetical schwa after the k because/kn/ is not a possible consonant cluster in Modern English. And then you added another epenthetical vowel between the x (voiceless velar fricative; like the ch in 'Bach'.) and the t.
That being said, yes, English spelling is screwy because it's a Germanic language that then got a bunch of French loanwords thanks to an invasion, then some Scandinavian thanks to another invasion, then Greek and Latin via scholars. Plus spellings were often standardized on one dialect's pronunciation at one point in time. It gets to be a right mess.
I don't know about other states, but in Ohio sales tax varies by county. I live in Columbus (Franklin County) and sales tax here is 6.75%. I think the statewide base sales tax is 5.75% though, not 6%.
But, uh, in regard to your comment itself, they would just have to figure out which state's (or which county's!) sales tax to apply. So, $6.75 tax if I bought it.
I don't think age has anything to do with th -> v|f. I'm not sure what dialect it is, but if you watch episodes of Monty Python you'll hear them do characters with that feature. And there's several characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books that talk like that. (The dialog is written in dialect like: "I fink..."). My guess is that it's some sort of working class accent.
I'm probably passing on the $129 hit. If it was $49 I would have done it, but it seems like I might as well wait 2 years for the next one to get more. It's still a bit more than you'd like, but if you are a student the Tiger price is $69. When I discovered that it certainly changed my mind and got me to preorder.
The CSE department at Ohio State University uses Solaris 8 and is planning on migrating to Solaris 10 in a couple of years. But there's also a RedHat Enterprise site license available and a lot of reasearchers are running Redhat (ranging from 8 to Enterprise 3) on the machines in their labs.
I was watching the extras on the Red Dwarf series V DVDs last night and at one point one of the creators complained that they only had 29 minutes and 30 seconds to tell a story. Can you imagine how much more pleasant American TV could be if we had those extra 9 minutes and 30 seconds per episode? Of course, that presupposes shows with worthwhile content, but hey, I can dream.
Well what is the difference between someone at google and RMS in the 70's? In my mind, nothing b/c RMS was getting paid (McArthur schoolarship I think) RMS was an undergrad student at Harvard (who also worked in the MIT AI lab) in the '70s. He got the MacArthur Fellowship in '90. The free software thing came out of his time as a grad student (in the late '70s and early '80s, at MIT I think), which probably did involve a stipend, I suppose. More info at wikipedia.
The MacGIMP web site has the download link for the MacOSX disk image here. The issue some may have with MacGIMP is that it costs money. ($29.95 download, $79.95 with media) Gimp.app is just a port to X11 on MacOS X, but it does have the advantage of being free.
Firefox team, please wake up and listen! An official method for centralized roll-out on Windows networks is an absolute must if you want to make a dent in IE usage in the business / corporate world.
Planned for 1.1. Scroll down the article a way and you will see that one of the things planned for 1.1 is an MSI installer so it plays better with corporate deployments.
Then again, is she wants empty tabs, Tabbrowser Preferences can't help. So if she wants to use Firefox, she'd have to use ctrl+T (personally I like opening empty tabs too, and I always do it that way). Actually that's not true. If you have Tabbrowser Preferences installed and you go to Tools -> Options and click on the Tabbed Browsing prefs and expand the User Interface prefs in it there is a pref called "Show the New Tab button on the tab bar (requires restart)", which gives you a new blank tab button just like Mozilla has.
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Actually, "caveat boner" would be "boner beware"*. The boner isn't the one who needs the warning. I don't have the latin skills to fix it, but maybe someone else will.
*OK, well, assuming "boner" were a latin word.
LanguageTool is the program. He has apparently rewritten it in Java since I last looked at it. His thesis is in the docs section of the webpage. It looks to be more of a standalone app now with an API that other programs can call.
I'm doing my MA project on spell checkers for L2 learners, and in the course of readings for it I've run across a few papers on grammar checkers as well.
There are opensource grammar checkers out there. Or at least one. Of course this article hits the day I don't have my big notebook of papers with me at work, so I don't have the reference and url. But someone did their MA thesis work writing a grammar checker (more acurately called a style checker) for KWord. You have to patch and recompile KWord, but it gives you something along the same lines as MS Word's.
Most of the comments about grammar here have been incredibly stupid, by the way. Here's an important thing you learn in an intro to ling class: all languages are equally complicated. It's not going to be easier to write a grammar checker for any language above any other. e.g. You might have to worry more about morphology in one language and word order in another.
There isn't a complete grammar written for any language. There's good reference grammars for a lot of the major ones, and for dead languages you can call it a complete grammar if it makes you feel better. No native speakers can tell you what you got wrong there.
Given that Bin Laden's main beef with the US is about military bases in Saudi Arabia, and most of the hijackers were Saudi, I'm going to guess that Bush's father is a better one to blame than Clinton.
But like you hinted, the geopolitics are even more complicated than that.
That's because MS SQL is essentially just Sybase for Windows.
See Andy Hertzfeld's folklore.org for the stories about how MS got the license to the Mac UI and copied the UI.
Remember that was 20 years ago and it was John Sculley's fault.
No. He's at Princeton.
Where I work laptops are only allowed on the wireless network, which is on its own vlan, which has all Windows related ports firewalled off from the rest of the network.
All the wired connections have portsecurity, so if the MAC isn't on the access list for that port the port shuts down.
Of course, then we have the research vlan where a bunch of clueless grad students treat the machines like they're their home machines and click on everything.
Well, we try at least.
Foiled again! Although that number is pretty close to what I originally said, which leads me to believe I saw a number like that somewhere.
For Columbus it's pretty easy to define the 'area'. There's Columbus proper, then head out any direction , go past the outerbelt, go through a suburb, et voila: CORN! Or said in a less silly way, it's all of Franklin county, although soon enough Columbus will swallow up Delaware to the north too. Muhaha.
Curses! Bad reading on my part for sure. Actually, it makes me feel better to know that NYC has only 4 times the population of the greater Columbus, OH area instead of 10 times. Much easier to wrap my head around. Must be my Ohioan inferiority complex that made me believe NYC is so much bigger.
there's over 8 million people in the area
According to the census bureau, it's 19,190,115 people. So, yeah, over 8 million.
1. Go to amazon.co.uk
2. Click on the "Your account" button
3. Follow the link called "Update your communication preferences"
4. Sign in
5. Change your preferences. They're all pretty straight forward. There's even one called "Don't send me any messages that aren't related to my orders, bids or services that I sign up for directly."
No, that's if linguists ran the world.
I disagree. A real linguist would design a language that's a lot less of a mess than perl. The goal of linguistics is to understand the underlying logical structure of language in the mind; it's not to create a computer language as tough to parse as a natural language. Most formal linguists seem to prefer Prolog, Lisp, or Python. (Yes, fine, Prolog and Lisp can be hard to get the mind around.) If Perl gets used at all it's just the PCRE library for other languages or a quicky program to convert something using regular expressions.
Larry Wall is trained as a field linguist. He started out trying to collect field data to translate the bible into new languages in order to convert people. (Personally, I find that quite icky. Although I do appreciate the resources SIL has provided.) I'm pretty sure any formal stuff he picked up was much later as a programmer.
Knight is spelled the way it is because it used to be pronounced kuh-nig-it
/knext/. Not like Monty Python.
/kn/ is not a possible consonant cluster in Modern English. And then you added another epenthetical vowel between the x (voiceless velar fricative; like the ch in 'Bach'.) and the t.
No. It was pronounced
You've added an epenthetical schwa after the k because
That being said, yes, English spelling is screwy because it's a Germanic language that then got a bunch of French loanwords thanks to an invasion, then some Scandinavian thanks to another invasion, then Greek and Latin via scholars. Plus spellings were often standardized on one dialect's pronunciation at one point in time. It gets to be a right mess.
Rosetta Stone referes to a tablet that had a simultaneous translation of Heiroglyphics, Latin, and Greek
Actually it had Heiroglyphics, Demotic, and Greek. But otherwise you're dead on.
I don't know about other states, but in Ohio sales tax varies by county. I live in Columbus (Franklin County) and sales tax here is 6.75%. I think the statewide base sales tax is 5.75% though, not 6%.
But, uh, in regard to your comment itself, they would just have to figure out which state's (or which county's!) sales tax to apply. So, $6.75 tax if I bought it.
I don't think age has anything to do with th -> v|f. I'm not sure what dialect it is, but if you watch episodes of Monty Python you'll hear them do characters with that feature. And there's several characters in Terry Pratchett's Discworld books that talk like that. (The dialog is written in dialect like: "I fink...").
My guess is that it's some sort of working class accent.
Canada has a point system for imigration, and you get a lot of points if you get above a certain score on a government issued French profeciency test.
I'm probably passing on the $129 hit. If it was $49 I would have done it, but it seems like I might as well wait 2 years for the next one to get more.
It's still a bit more than you'd like, but if you are a student the Tiger price is $69. When I discovered that it certainly changed my mind and got me to preorder.
The CSE department at Ohio State University uses Solaris 8 and is planning on migrating to Solaris 10 in a couple of years. But there's also a RedHat Enterprise site license available and a lot of reasearchers are running Redhat (ranging from 8 to Enterprise 3) on the machines in their labs.
I was watching the extras on the Red Dwarf series V DVDs last night and at one point one of the creators complained that they only had 29 minutes and 30 seconds to tell a story.
Can you imagine how much more pleasant American TV could be if we had those extra 9 minutes and 30 seconds per episode? Of course, that presupposes shows with worthwhile content, but hey, I can dream.
Well what is the difference between someone at google and RMS in the 70's? In my mind, nothing b/c RMS was getting paid (McArthur schoolarship I think)
RMS was an undergrad student at Harvard (who also worked in the MIT AI lab) in the '70s. He got the MacArthur Fellowship in '90. The free software thing came out of his time as a grad student (in the late '70s and early '80s, at MIT I think), which probably did involve a stipend, I suppose.
More info at wikipedia.
The MacGIMP web site has the download link for the MacOSX disk image here.
The issue some may have with MacGIMP is that it costs money. ($29.95 download, $79.95 with media)
Gimp.app is just a port to X11 on MacOS X, but it does have the advantage of being free.
Firefox team, please wake up and listen! An official method for centralized roll-out on Windows networks is an absolute must if you want to make a dent in IE usage in the business / corporate world.
Planned for 1.1. Scroll down the article a way and you will see that one of the things planned for 1.1 is an MSI installer so it plays better with corporate deployments.
Then again, is she wants empty tabs, Tabbrowser Preferences can't help. So if she wants to use Firefox, she'd have to use ctrl+T (personally I like opening empty tabs too, and I always do it that way).
Actually that's not true. If you have Tabbrowser Preferences installed and you go to Tools -> Options and click on the Tabbed Browsing prefs and expand the User Interface prefs in it there is a pref called "Show the New Tab button on the tab bar (requires restart)", which gives you a new blank tab button just like Mozilla has.