Category: Linguistics

INFP Profile

Extraverted intuition faces outward, greeting the world on behalf of Feeling.

What the observer usually sees is creativity with implied good will. Intuition spawns this type’s philosophical bent and strengthens pattern perception. It combines as auxiliary with introverted Feeling and gives rise to unusual skill in both character development and fluency with language–a sound basis for the development of literary facility.

If INTPs aspire to word mechanics, INFPs would be verbal artists.

via INFP Profile.

Emoji – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Emoji (絵文字?) is the Japanese term for the picture characters or emoticons used in Japanese electronic messages and webpages.

Originally meaning pictograph, the word literally means e “picture” + moji “letter”.

The characters are used much like emoticons elsewhere, but a wider range is provided, and the icons are standardized and built into the handsets. Some emoji are very specific to Japanese culture, such as a bowing (apologizing) businessman, a face wearing a face mask or a group of emoji representing popular foods (ramen noodles, dango, onigiri, Japanese curry, sushi).

The three main Japanese operators, NTT DoCoMo, au and SoftBank Mobile (formerly Vodafone), have each defined their own variants of emoji.

via Emoji – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

Comparative literature – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Comparative literature (sometimes abbreviated “Comp. lit.”) is an academic field dealing with the literature of two or more different linguistic, cultural or national groups.

While most frequently practiced with works of different languages, comparative literature may also be performed on works of the same language if the works originate from different nations or cultures among which that language is spoken. Also included in the range of inquiry are comparisons of different types of art; for example, a relationship of film to literature. It is one of the degrees in English.

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How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated)

Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call “paralanguage,” like shoulder shrugs and intonations.

Hashtags at their best stand in as what linguists call “paralanguage,” like shoulder shrugs and intonations.

That’s fine.

But at their most annoying, the colloquial hashtag has burst out of its use as a sorting tool and become a linguistic tumor—a tic more irritating than any banal link or lazy image meme.

The hashtag is conceptually out of bounds, being used by computer conformists without rules, sense, or intelligence, a like yknowwwww that now permeates the internet outside of the tweets it was meant to corral. It pervades Facebook, texting, Foursquare—turning into a form of “ironic metadata,” as linguist Ben Zimmer of The Visual Thesaurus labels it.

via How the Hashtag Is Ruining the English Language (Updated).

Fortran – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia

Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

 Fortran is a general-purpose, procedural, imperative programming language that is especially suited to numeric computation and scientific computing.

Fortran (a blend derived from The IBM Mathematical Formula Translating System) encompasses a lineage of versions, each of which evolved to add extensions to the language while usually retaining compatibility with previous versions.

Successive versions have added support for processing of character-based data (FORTRAN 77), array programming, modular programming and object-oriented programming (Fortran 90 / 95), and object-oriented and generic programming (Fortran 2003).

via Fortran – Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

The 20 Best Books for Language Lovers | Online College Tips – Online Colleges

The 20 Best Books for Language Lovers | Online College Tips – Online Colleges.

Language pervades everything, building and destroying as time marches ever forward.

And while even the most learned scholars can’t even begin to fully explain its physiology, origins, structures and pretty much every other component, they’ve certainly done a pretty lovely job scratching the surface.