2013-05-17
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Not to be confused with: a social gathering of invited guests, typically involving eating, drinking, and entertainment: an engagement party. ”
2013-04-22
Tumblr is incredibly
- We’re incredibly proud of our partners’ creativity and have been constantly amazed by how well these creations can fit into our Dashboards.
- We’re incredibly excited to announce the launch of the new Tumblr app!
- Dialogue about these behaviors is incredibly important and online communities can be extraordinarily helpful to people struggling with these difficult conditions.
- Online dialogue about these acts and conditions is incredibly important; this prohibition is intended to reach only those blogs that cross the line into active promotion or glorification.
- We’re incredibly sorry and appreciate your patience with us tonight.
- Through their monthly events, the NY Tech Meetup has given countless startups support from an incredibly welcoming and encouraging community.
- So today we’re incredibly proud to launch our Polish translation, making Tumblr available in nine languages!
- Incredibly wealthy felines who stack cheese.
- We’re incredibly humbled and grateful for your empathy and generosity.
- An incredibly comprehensive guide to everything music at SXSW from a local, with band reviews and party fliers for the music portion of the festival.
- This year’s conference is going to be the best yet, and we’re incredibly happy to be able to take part.
- We’re incredibly confident in our ability to scale to serve all of the visitors to your awesome blogs.
- We hit an incredibly difficult problem with the way the Queue processes handle their publishing step that forced us to unwind and rewrite a big chunk of our publishing routine.
- We’re incredibly moved by the events happening across North Africa and the Middle East, especially the recent images, videos and commentary we’ve seen on Tumblr about Egypt.
- We want you to know that we’re still right in the thick of the most comprehensive re-architecting our infrastructure has ever been through, and while you might still hit some bugs or errors this month, our incredibly capable team is working 24/7 to keep your blogs fast and stable.
- But please always know that we truly care about your work as much as you do, and we have an incredibly capable team working incredibly hard to take good care of it.
- Heather Peterson gets to make incredibly cool stuff all day and get paid for it.
- And we’re incredibly honored that Time Out featured us in their lineup of the best places to work in New York City!
- Four new incredibly special themes have joined Tumblr’s Premium Theme Garden!
- But it does take advantage of Tumblr’s publishing tools to make it incredibly easy to build a portfolio.
- And finally, despite the mess, it’s incredibly tempting to jump into a huge pile of snow whilst yelling “Cowabunga, dudes!”
- Last week we had the honor of showcasing a few of the incredibly talented filmmakers on Tumblr.
- To deal with the overwhelming volume of content that makes most real-time search incredibly unwieldy, we’ve developed a clustering engine that lets you quickly filter the 650,000 new Tumblr posts created every day, based on likes and reblogs.
- Not only are these guys remarkable developers, they have an incredibly inspiring vision for building consumer products, and we couldn’t wait to start working with them on the next suite of Tumblr/iPhone features.
- The Tumblr team worked incredibly hard to pull this together.
2013-01-15
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2013-01-03
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Joshua Foer, in his New Yorker article on John Quijada and Ithkuil, the Language He Invented. The whole thing is worth a read, but I ended up going down a little of a Láadan rabbit hole.
After a brief detour to Mental Floss, where I found ramine (verb), defined as “to refrain from asking, out of courtesy or kindness”, I ended up at the Láadan language’s website itself, and read through the list of Láadan to English definitions.
The two definitions above give you some idea of the thinking behind some of the words in the language, but there are far more in the dictionary. For example, búsholan - meaning alone “in the bosom of your family” - is a word for a feeling that I’m sure many people felt over the last fortnight or so. (There’s also sholalan, for “alone in a crowd of people”, and various other modifiers on the root sholan (“alone”) as well.)
I also liked the section next to eba, “spouse”: “Láadan wouldn’t allow “X married Y” or “Y married X,” which presuppose that marrying is something one person can do to another. It has to be a joint action, done together.” This seems only right and proper. The distinction between hatheril and hatherilid could also be useful.
If the point of an invented language is to try and open cracks in the way you think, letting ideas that are hard to express have a short representation (even if it’s one you can’t widely use), then it seems to me that Láadan succeeds.
2011-11-08
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An Icelandic pangram, which translated means “If a new axe were here, thieves would feel increasing deterrence and punishment.” Seems apt, somehow.
(This would also make a reasonably good test phrase for Unicode storage.) (Edit: ssp notes that it wouldn’t, since most of that fits in Latin 1. Oops.)
2011-06-13
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Carl Muckenhoupt in a comment on See Different, a MetaFilter thread about alternative maps.
I’d never thought about the word. This was a little explanation bomb going off in my head.
2011-02-14
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From the British Council’s Vimeo account, comes this vintage gem. Lovely work on the transitions:
History of the English Language acts as an excellent layman’s introduction to the origins of one of the most common languages on the planet, demonstrating how dialect changes over time, and presenting England as being multicultural right down to its roots.
2010-12-19
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A Google Books chart showing the decline of the medial S, the ſ you see in old inscriptions. Chart via Robin Sloan. Chart concept by Ben Schmidt. Seen in Rest In Peace, Medial S by Frank Chimero.
See also: Congrefs, by Mark Wunch, which restores the long S (via).
Previously: Go About Your Buſineſs. (See also.)
2010-08-26
Amazing. Fantastic. Wonderful.
There’s a word I’m desperately trying not to use. That word is “Awesome”.
I don’t know how much of it is the reflexive use it seems to have on the internet, and how much is English snobbery, but I really don’t like using the word. I’m pedantic enough to think that something described with it should inspire a sense of awe, rather than just being momentarily amusing or impressive.
Also, it’s not as if (British?) English is lacking in synonyms. The title of this post contains three I thought of without trouble, and I’m sure with a bit more effort I could come up with a few more.
I suppose this is a plea to help with my self-policing. If you catch me saying That Word, and I don’t notice myself (usually I do, and mumble a very short version of this post) then feel free to give me a stern look. Thanks.
2010-03-21
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A map from German dialects and migration: Sprechen Sie Deutsch? in The Economist:
FEW Germans now say Appel rather than Apfel (apple) or maken instead of machen (to make). The north German dialects that use such variants are mostly dead or dying. But the cultural differences that they reflect still govern behaviour today, says a paper from the Institute for the Study of Labour, in Bonn.
