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more about #language Bootknife-Jackson: the web has a purpose? and it's somehow linked to the latin language base? ....is it meatballs? ...i'm gonna call Al Gore and ask him... more » rek: I'm a little bit angry that there's a company that controls this sort of thing at all. more » Guang: I think this is a great idea, but only for the part of the address before the last dot. I think that we should keep the .com .org .net and what have y... more » firstofnormalin: "We give it maybe ten seconds until someone is complaining that the net has become corrupted and lost sight of its original purpose." Naw--that happen... more » The Curse of Millhaven: As long as the Prince symbol is accepted, I will be happy. more » Bill-Lee: There are other ways to write besides the Latin Alphabet? Get out of here...Really? more » t3knomanser: Your first sentence is false. Non-latin characters are already allowed in domain names by many registrars. The change is that non-latin characters ar... more » Bigdamnhero: My prediction is that sooner or later, this will all be moot. Babelfish or Google Translate will get so good that you'll be able to read any webpage ... more » CodenameV: What this means is that increasingly, people like me who *actually understand Ciceronian Latin* will be in increasingly high demand; they have auto-t... more » Smeagol92055: Aasimo: And what about the non-latin countries that have had to type our letterforms for years? I see no problem with this. It's the WORLDwide Web, after all. more » exwizard: Let me be the first to say this is the beginning of our slide into a Bladerunner style dystopia. I am going to have to learn bits of Chinese and Japan... more » AmishJohn: The potential for scams, drive-by attacks, and general asshattery will be expanded exponentially now. more » DRaGZ: How will we get there if our keyboards can't type it? more » Bigdamnhero: Also, the vocalization consisting of "zoom a zoom zoom" and "boom boom" has been shown to stimulate furious monkey rump shaking in many primate species. more » J_Frank_Parnell: 'Man can be domesticated.' Rock me Dr. Zaius. more » earthclanbootstrap: And I'll bet that "ooh-eeeh-ooh-ahh-ahh-ting-tang-walla-walla-bing-bang" means "would you like to come over to my tree and groom for a while?" more » k4man: "Toss poop now?" "Toss poop now." more » BangarangRufio867: and the combining of "Boom, Boom, Boom, let me hear you say Way-Oh! WAY-Ohhhhhh!" means: PARTY TIME! Monkeys love them some 90's music. more » Ruthless, If you let me: Bad ... bad grammar overload -- error, error! more » mordicai: Bickerton's "Adam's Tongue" ([mordicai.livejournal.com]") talks about what he calls "Animal Communication Systems"-- & how the illusion of syntax & co... more » -
#internetfuture
Will Non-Latin Characters Destroy The Internet?
Next year, the first URLs made up of non-latin characters will appear on the internet. We give it maybe ten seconds until someone is complaining that the net has become corrupted and lost sight of its original purpose. More » -
#madscience
Talk Monkey to Me: Monkey Language Contains Simple Sentences
While other primates have exhibited simple vocabularies, it has long been believed that syntax, the construction of sentences, was unique to humans. But a recent study suggests that at least one species of monkey communicates in vocalized sentences. More » -
#klingonhamlet
Watch Hamlet's Soliloquy Recited in the Original Klingon
We all know that you haven't really heard Shakespeare until you've heard his works in the original Klingon. So one fan took it upon himself to dress as the Klingon prince Khamlet and recite the play's classic soliloquy. More » -
#avatar
Avatar Linguist Wants Na'vi Language to be the Next Klingon
The Na'vi language in Avatar isn't just a collection of pretty sounds. It's an actual language, constructed by a USC linguistics professor, complete with its own grammar and syntax. He talks language creation, and explains how Na'vi compares with Klingon. More » -
#chartporn
Chart Shows How Transhumanism Went Mainstream
Over At Accelerating Future, Michael Anissimov has used Google Trends to do a quick analysis of how many people searched on the term "transhumanism" over the past five years. More » -
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#aliens
Want to Invent an Alien Language?
So you want to invent a cool alien race, complete with a fleshed-out language, for your game, book, movie, or personal benefit. There are others like you out there: they're called conlangers, and they construct elaborate languages for fun or to make the portrait of an alien race more believable. Rule number one of conlanging, however, is know the history of human languages. That way, you know the range of what's already been done — and you can deviate from it accordingly. And this beautiful chart of the history of Indo-European languages is just the thing to get your brain zooming. More »
