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Topic: Language

Related:
  English language    Programming Language  
  Language Courses    Foreign Language  
  French language    Language Studies  
  Language Development    Language Arts  
  Language Learning    Language School  
  German language    Language and Communication  

 
 
 Vital Stats
The Brain has inferred the following facts from reading text collected on the topic:
Favorite possession(s):Dictionary,  Linux box
Most admires:Che Guevara
Personality:Analytical
Dream job(s):Webmaster,  Teacher
Education:Post-graduate,  None
Favorite body part(s):Brain
Favorite book(s):"Beginning Visual Basic 6" by Peter Wright
"Maximum Internet Security: A Hackers Guide" by Net Sams
"Complete Idiot's Guide to Creating an HTML Web Page" by Scott J McFedries
Interest(s):English,  Latin,  French
Favorite online activity(s):Building websites
Membership(s):Free Software Foundation
Favorite quote(s):"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult." - C. A. R. Hoare
"C makes it easy to shoot yourself in the foot; C++ makes it harder, but when you do, it blows away your whole leg." - Bjarne Stroustrup
 
 
 Expert Talk
The Brain has selected interesting relevant sentences from the web. It automatically assigned them to some of our fictitious experts based on their personalities.


Chogyam Trungpa Gyatso,
Tibetan Monk

Indian languages, particularly Sanskrit was banned and Hindus could hardly read their own scriptures and Vedic metaphysics thus became a major casualty.
Bori Gonbutoren,
Reindeer Herder

Regional indigenous languages stemming from Austroasiatic and Austronesian language families either adopted an introduced writing system or remained as oral traditions until the 20th century.
Dave Simons,
Internet Entrepeneur

It supports mixing languages in any document or in any line and includes support for mixing bidirectional text and contextual analysis.
Arthur Dawkins,
Astro-physicist

The situation was made more difficult because some Pacific island languages are limited in their ability to fully describe scientific concepts of the world environment said Ms Binoka.
Steve Riggins,
Software Deveoper

But programming languages are different: programming languages are not just technology, but what programmers think in.
Recursive types are ubiquitous in modern programming languages, as they occur when typing constructs such as datatype definitions.
Spoken languages and even computer syntax languages can be downloaded into the brain of a Cybertron in mere nano-clicks, provided the language is documented in a computer.
Brian Mengel,
Civil Servant

Institute of Languages is also registered with the Utah State Board of Regents under the Utah Postsecondary Proprietary School act.
Industry Canada is bound by the Official Languages Act and relevant Treasury Board policies and all Industry Canada information is available in both French and English.
Apart from the languages indicated in our job vacancy descriptions our clients require candidates to have a good command of English.
Zhang Xian Qian,
Ex-Olympic Swimmer

POLY Languages Accredited by ACCET POLY Languages Institute and its three campuses are accredited by ACCET , the Accrediting Council for Continuing Education and Training.
Paddy McGuinness,
Newsagent

For languages with phonetic spelling this is not likely to be a problem however for languages like English which don't have phonetic spelling of words this is likely to be unacceptable.
 
 
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ibo
2005-08-26 19:58:27
what is the japanese symbol for ibo?
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