Archive for August 16th, 2005

Grammatical Terminology, Tongue-In-Cheek

Grammatical Terminology

Q: So, what exactly is a noun?

A: Noun comes from the Latin word for “name.” Nouns name what you’re talking about. For example, if I had to name what you’re doing, I’d say you’re interviewing me. So to interview is a noun.

It goes on from there, and gets sillier.

Hat tip to the incredibly-niftily-named Hapax Legomena

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Translit - Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic Transliteration

This looks interesting. Too bad I don’t have Microsoft Office 2003, and have no intention of getting it.

Translit - Russian, Greek, Hebrew, Arabic Transliteration

Hate receiving emails from your friends written in Latin alphabet? Bored searching for a good translit engine? Not anymore!

Transliterating (decoding) email messages and text from English to Russian, Hebrew, Arabic, and other non-Latin alphabets is now as easy as ABC!

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005

Eek! An error in the OED!

Seriously. The OED software gives a word of the day when you start it up. Today’s word is *inconsciently*, which the OED defines as unknowningly. I’m pretty sure from the context sentences that should read unknowingly. Just in case, I looked up unknowningly, and as I expected, there wasn’t any listing for it.

Tuesday, August 16th, 2005