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Tobias Kumwenda has started a blog to teach Tumbuka ( via Global Voices):
The mission of this weblog is to teach those people who are not ChiTumbuka speakers located across the world, but have developed passion to learn this language.
A great idea. Keep up the good work!
See also Wikipedia:
The Tumbuka language is […]
Here’s my comment I submitted a couple of minutes ago at Climb to the Stars on Most People Are Multilingual (cos I’m not sure if my comment wasn’t gobbled):
In southern Africa (Zambia, Zimbabwe, Malawi, SA) most people are multi-lingual with varying levels of language competency in at least 3 languages.
For example in Malawi, children […]
It’s been a while since I’ve written anything personal in my blog. Mostly because this isn’t a confessional blog. A couple of weeks ago I read thu all entries here at chiperoni.org. And I like the nice side-effect that I can hold onto a fleeting moment by documenting it in words (even if it’s just […]
Linguistic nit-picking on a Friday afternoon:
I noticed this phrase over at the JavaPolis 06 website (a login is required):
17 299 JavaPolians registered
And I started wondering why JavaPolian, why not JavaPolitans?
After all, people living in a metropolis are metropolitans or have metropolitan characteristics.
The same applies for people from Minneapolis.
Maybe the ending for metropolis […]
Main Entry: mouse potato
Function: noun
Etymology: after couch potato
slang : a person who spends a great deal of time using a computer
Source: Definition of mouse potato - Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary
Couple of writing tips I found at MarketingProfs.com:
Begin with a story
Use short words
Write shorter sentences
Remove clichés
Use bridges or connectors
Use concrete examples rather than concepts
Pay attention to your verbs
Can technical writers be good marketing writers - and vice versa?
The above presentation notes are old (from 2002 i.e. definitely Web 1.0), but the question is interesting…
what’s your opinion on this?
(update: unfortunately the site seems to be down. Note to myself: write a short summary of the main points for future reference.)
yesterday evening I started playing around with some Wordpress plugins I’d found.
SlimStats
This Day
I made a small code change in wp-config.php. Everything was working fine… I thought. But this morning I got this error message (please skip the next paragraph if you’re a wp/PHP geek, you’re probably going to throw your hands up in […]
Adopt a German word for 5 Euro:
http://www.wortpatenschaft.de/
Apparently the German language needs your help:
…Werden Sie Wortpate! Beschützen Sie ein deutsches Wort und übernehmen Sie dafür die Verantwortung: Entwickeln Sie das Wort weiter, pflegen Sie es, hüten Sie es vor Mißbrauch oder Verdrängung! Schreiben Sie Gedichte mit Ihrem Wort, tauschen Sie sich aus mit anderen Wortpaten und […]
Radio32.ch on Canoo.net (in German)
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