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iPhone Chinese Alphabet App
January 31st, 2010 | No Comments
Good Characters, Inc has come out with a new iPhone application: Chinese Alphabet. Thankfully, the creators realize such a thing does not exist and this is for entertainment value only, to add “mystery” to your writing. Of course, everything from the Orient is mysterious…
To those gullible to think this will translate their writing into real Chinese, for just $1.99 you can sound like an idiot!
Invented Languages
January 12th, 2010 | 2 Comments
With the popularity of the film, Avatar, linguists around the world have a new invented language to expose their geekiness: Na’vi.
Poised to join the ranks of other invented languages like Esperanto, Quenya (aka High-Elvish), and Klingon, Na’vi is sure to amass a following of nerds and linguists at future nerd conventions like Comic-con.
American-born Taiwanese girl who married a Japanese guy. And who forgot about six years' of Spanish grammar and most of the vocab.
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