Month: December 2013
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Surface Pro 2 or iPad Air?
Our family secondary computer has finally died. It was a 2007 Sony Vaio notebook running Vista. It had served us well. RIP. This means we need a replacement, a new computer. So it was time to take measure of what is out there. The landscape has certainly changed since 2007. And my family’s tech has…
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Playing with the ix500
Bought a Fujitsu ix500 scanner last week. Wow! I don’t know how I had lived without this incredible machine for so long. The scanning is so quick – 30 pages double-sided in a minute. By default it saves as PDF. But one click and it is converted into a Word document. I scanned a novel…
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Mandela’s Language
If peace needed a language to convey its meaning and intention far fewer people from around the world would have turned out for his state memorial service. Peace is beyond language and so language comes second to emotion and thought.
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collocation
How words (collocates) relate to a particular word (keyword or node). In corpus, this usually means within a certain distance from the node. For example, ±5 words to either side of the node which are then collated and summed for quick comprehension. Words often come together with greater-than-chance regularity. This can either be within the…
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ICEWeb – the web as corpus
I hadn’t done web as corpus before. That is until now. People say the web as corpus linguistic data is unreliable. But then they said that too when the first corpora were made all those years ago. Undoubtedly how good the sample is is an important factor. One can say the same thing about any…
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Get your non-English DOS OS to show English
There are times you would wish your DOS session is in your native language, English (like when reading the ‘help’ contents). To do this start up a DOS session and in the command prompt type and execute: chcp 437 To find your current OS language code type and execute: chcp To revert back to the…
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