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Microsoft Language Portal Blog

Thoughts about terminology, language, and linguistics

January 2008 - Posts

Microsoft to launch a web portal with a new glossary search tool this spring
Many of you know that Microsoft makes available the product glossaries of the products we shipped on MSDN for download. We also have a spreadsheet with select core terminology available for download on http://www.microsoft.com/globaldev/tools/MILSGlossary.mspx Read More...
Sapir, Whorf, and snow
Interesting tidbit about Sapir-Whorf (I mentioned them in my previous posting): In my linguistics 101 class, we were still presented with the story of the Eskimo’s relatively long list of words denoting snow. This was portrayed as evidence for the hypothesis Read More...
Terminological consistency and partial language attrition?
I am wondering what effects our attempts to ensure terminological consistency will have on our languages going forward. Consistent terminology is necessary for efficient localization in a world that values business expansion in a global market while operating Read More...
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