Sunday, July 24, 2005
Gymnastics with Onomastics
Where the last issue of Model Languages described in detail how to create model languages for generating names, this issue specifically elaborates on how different languages and cultures form names.
Here are some useful terms to describe the study of names:
onomastics - the study of names (in general)
anthroponomastics - the study of personal names
toponomastics - the study of place names.
Thursday, July 21, 2005
Keyword variations on Google: "Googl-"
Googlable [Variation 1 of 355]
to
Googly [Variation 351 of 355]
The leg-spinner's "wrong' un" - with the wrist bent right round
so that the ball will be released out of the back of the hand
Wednesday, July 20, 2005
"corpus googliensis" - Google Groups
... true let us consult the corpus googliensis
another word I coined alt.english.usage - Oct 31 2001, 6:20 pm by Hugh Watkins
which may be led to the google thesaurus
hape - Google Groups: misc.survivalism
Epinephrine - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia: "Whilst epinephrine is the current International Non-Proprietary Name (INN) and United States Approved Name (USAN), it is widely known as adrenaline in the rest of the world (outside the United States) which followed the British Approved Name (BAN) as listed in the British Pharmacopoeia.
The monograph name in the European Pharmacopoeia remains adrenaline, despite the adoption of INN names for all other agents, and European Union (EU) countries continue to use either adrenaline or dual-labelling of both names on products. This is because of the confusion that the name epinephrine would cause to patients in EU countries, and resistance to the perceived Americanisation of drug names.
The basis for the name epinephrine in the United States was out of necessity�the name adrenalin (without a final 'e') was registered as a trademark by Parke, Davis & Co. In other countries where this trademark was not registered, the name adrenaline was adopted at the insistence of the British pharmacologist Henry Hallett Dale. Resistance to the adoption of epinephrine has even resulted in some dispute as to the validity of the name (Aronson, 2000)."
Friday, July 08, 2005
Visiting the rock festival at Roskilde (2)
who started 3 minutes late with a horrible drum solo
Obviously something for his fans
luckily I was sitting outside the tent
and wandered past all the shops
and the bars
THIS IS THE TUBORG FESTIVAL OF BEER - the sort of music that sounds OK after 5 beers
when I got back to the ORANGE stage,
I saw in the cage above that the soundman for Brian Wilson was testing and setting up.
Brian Wilson fans waiting for a front row place
these fences are not for a sheep dip
but the new set up for crowd control after the tragic deaths by crushing
this is the closest exit to the town
so I had a long walk to escape
No one answered my upraised thumb
with a lift,
local hitch-hiking, and on a Sunday too, is notoriously hopeless,
so I was soon done in .
Buses were every 2 or 3 hours .
bicycles chained to the fence
distant policemen checking out a taxi
on an illegal rank at the entrance
Visiting the rock festival at Roskilde (1)
After getting off the shuttle bus from Roskilde train station at the Ringsted road side of the show place.
I was walking past fields and fields filled with masses of parked cars, and glimpsed this Vestas windmill on the hill top.
then a big red tank wagon has been emptying the contents of the toilets
the yellow tent is the ticket sales office
beong over 50 years of age I got in free on the Sunday
and these this guy clamped the wrist band tightly around my wrist
is the tent camp
a bit like a teenage bedroom
untidy and strewn with rubbish
gone home and abandoned their tents and sleeping bags
use and throw away
this is the festival railway station
a halt
no trains on Sundays
finally at the ORANGE STAGE
at 3:00pm
...And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead // News
Google Search: "and you will know us by the trail of dead"
I sat at the back on these bleachers
but here the sound quality was confused and disappointing and the music full of clichees.
Better sound at home on my stereo.
I enjoyed people watching but little else.
"spot the plain clothes cops" too
Sunday, July 03, 2005
odge Dictionary - English-German Translation
simply brilliant
I fell over it via Google Search: frauenzimmer dictionary
foreign dictionaries are part of english studies because of all our loan words.