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• How Typing Changes Language

  

  A few typing techniques mapped by Data Pointed. Click through for more. A keyboard’s asymmetrical layout may be influencing our feelings toward words. Read more

  Posted on 28 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Language of (New) Math

  

  New Math is a series created by Craig Damrauer that uses the language of math equations to make complex words and concepts simple. Read more

  Posted on 24 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• What People Talk About on Facebook

  

  It’s more than you ever wanted to know, but also, everything you ever wanted to know. Stephen Wolfram’s recent analysis of over a million people’s Facebook... Read more

  Posted on 23 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Making Visual Sense of App Usage

  

  What remains after using an app? Fingerprints. George Kokkinidis of Design Language decided to take a unique look at UIs by examining the smudges left after... Read more

  Posted on 21 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Language of Fantasy Worlds

  

  Dothraki is a real language created for a world of complete fantasy. Linguist David Peterson invented the language specifically to add texture to the Dothraki... Read more

  Posted on 20 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• In the Wake of Google I/O, A Retrospective on Anticipatory Computing

  

  This week at Google I/O, Amit Singhal and Johanna Wright took the stage to present their vision for the future of search. They envisioned a not-too-distant... Read more

  Posted on 18 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Origin of "The"

  

  If we left out “the” in sentences such as “please pass the peas,” would their meanings remain intact? Rutgers linguistics professor Richard Epstein argues yes. Read more

  Posted on 17 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• How We Talk About Ideas

  

  David McCandless of Information is Beautiful created a chart that captures the unique hierarchy of words people use when they’re describing ideas. Read more

  Posted on 16 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Word Aversion & Why We Hate Words Like "Moist"

  

  Why are we filled with disgust when hearing certain words? Word aversion is a linguistic concept associated with the sound and structure of words, along with ho... Read more

  Posted on 15 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Historical Vocabulary: Mad Men-ese

  

  How authentic is the language used in AMC’s Mad Men? The show’s research staff is tasked with making sure that every word could have ostensibly been uttered... Read more

  Posted on 13 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Call Me, Dolphin? Study Shows Dolphins Call Each Other by Name

  

  Spectrograms of dolphin vocalizations. Top row are signature whistles; in the middle, signature whistle copies; at bottom, the signature whistles of the copiers... Read more

  Posted on 09 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Reordering the Alphabet

  

  A few years ago, Spanish ad agency Smäll created a visualization based on the popularity of each letter from Google search results. It’s interesting to imagine... Read more

  Posted on 08 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Punctuation as Words (Slash Slang)

  

  Anne Curzan of the University of Michigan recently wrote about a nearly unheard of linguistic development: A new English conjunction, which only happens a... Read more

  Posted on 07 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• The Sounds of Snacking

  

  Snacking is some serious business. Dan Jurafsky, a Stanford linguist who blogs on The Language of Food, conducted a sound symbolism test to better understand ho... Read more

  Posted on 03 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Ordinary Sounds That Come From Foreign Languages

  A list of everyday sounds, and where they appear in languages other than English: Bilabial trill - When you blew a raspberry A bilabial trill is made when you... Read more

  Posted on 01 May 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Samsung, Intel and Telefónica Make Strategic Investment in Expect Labs

  

  This morning we announced a new strategic investment from Samsung Ventures, Intel Capital, and Telefónica Digital, that will enable us to collaborate on excitin... Read more

  Posted on 30 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• How to Say "Orange" Around Europe

  

  According to the Oxford English Dictionary, the word “orange” entered the English language in the early 1300s, via the Old French word, orenge. Read more

  Posted on 29 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Reclaiming "Geek"

  

  It wasn’t always hip to be geeky. In the past, being called a “geek” was an insult, implying a certain kind of awkwardness and lack of social skills that one di... Read more

  Posted on 26 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• Why People Text Liiiike Thiiiis

  

  Ever get texts with letters that never seem to stop? “Word lengthening” and “elongating” are used to describe the act of dragging out words with no apparent... Read more

  Posted on 24 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH

• A Day in the Life of Your Phone

  

  A few years ago, a Portuguese experimental software group called CADA created an application that visualized the daily life of a phone’s activity. Read more

  Posted on 23 April 2013 COMPUTING, TECH