Daniel Dennett argues that without language there is no consciousness, there is no self, and thus animals and baby are not conscious. Very interesting.
quick references that feature the most commonly forgotten things on a specific topic. You can print them out and hang them on your wall, or just keep them handy in your bookmarks for quick reference.
The Extensible HyperText Markup Language, or XHTML, is a markup language that has the same expressive possibilities as HTML, but a stricter, more verbose syntax. Whereas HTML is an application of SGML, a very flexible markup language, XHTML is an applicat
From the page: "Children whose father's vocabulary was more varied when they were 2 years old had more advanced language skills at age 3. Surprisingly, the dads spoke less and asked fewer questions than the mothers, suggesting it was not how much they spo
Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them. People use Facebook to keep up with friends, upload an unlimited number of photos, share links and videos, and learn more about the people they meet.
The phonetic alphabet - used by police military and communicators to clarify letters and spellings, plus more free online language and reference glossaries, information and facts.
When you are learning a foreign language, you need all the help you can get. Besides applications like jVLT, jMemorize, and StarDict, there are other tools that are not designed specifically for language learning, but they can make the learning process more efficient and fun. All you have to do is to think creatively.
Whether you like it or not, foreign expressions represent an integral part of the English language (and of many other languages, too). Knowing the meaning and usage of the most used ones is very important. First of all because it will enable you to understand pieces of text that include ...
Many cultures find that English might possibly be one of the most difficult languages to learn. Not, in fact, for its words, but for the fact that it has so many unusual and contradictory rules.
Finnish for foreigners. Nonprofital language teaching site including grammar, lessons, exercises and links. Suomea alkajille: sisältää kielioppia, sanastoa ja harjoituksia.
These lists were compiled from a largely prose corpus of about 5.3 million Latin words, including many post-classical sources. In this second edition, the many repetitions of the first edition have largely been eliminated, along with numerals and contractions, but the proper names have been retained. Also, the letters v and j have all been converted into the letters u and i. Thus the numeral VI was necessarily concordanced with the ablative of vis and appears as ui. For this and other reasons, these lists are only a rough approximation to the order of frequency. Note that each word's inflected forms are concordanced separately.
The Resource Description Framework (RDF) is a general-purpose language for representing information in the Web.
This document defines a textual syntax for RDF called Turtle that allows RDF graphs to be completely written in a compact and natural text form, with abbreviations for common usage patterns and datatypes. Turtle provides levels of compatibility with the existing N-Triples and Notation 3 formats as well as the triple pattern syntax of the SPARQL W3C Proposed Recommendation.
This document specifies a language that is in common usage under the name "Turtle". It is intended to be compatible with, and a subset of, Notation 3.
Perl is a stable, cross platform programming language. It is used for mission critical projects in the public and private sectors and is widely used to program web applications of all needs.