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Linguistics for Software Engineers: Why Concatenation is a Bad Idea
It is very tempting to write a application that concatenates strings or audio to make a single phrase or sentence. It seems like it would be really helpful if you are squeezed for space or to speed things up. However, natural language is a lot more complicated Read More...

Posted Friday, November 18, 2005 8:25 PM by noraneko | 0 Comments

Translation versus Transliteration
The issue of translating "proper nouns" comes up a lot in coding software that will be localized into other languages. Developers, in my experience, like to hardcode anything and everything if possible. This is not just a US programming phenomenon – I've Read More...

Posted Tuesday, November 15, 2005 7:48 AM by noraneko | 0 Comments

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