Category: miscellaneous
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Lay monk (linguine-istics)
Lay monk – a person who has taken the vow of not getting up. See all linguine-istics. (What are linguine-istics?)
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What are ‘linguine-istics’?
Linguine-istics are humourous definitions of words and phrase. for example: Linguine-istics – the study of humourous language that is just right (al dente). They are to be regular feature on this blog and are categorized under linguine-istics. Click here to see all.
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Academic life – it’s all about publish or perish, and quality over quantity
The bottom line in academia is publish or perish … but … . I have a friend who says publish anything anywhere but in the long run that is academic suicide. Publishing a junk paper in a junk journal is selling yourself short academically. And there are some who think publishing a lot is important.…
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Language death and the preservation of Australian indigenous cultures
Before British colonialisation began there in 1788, around 250 aboriginal languages were spoken in Australia by an estimated one million people. Only a few dozen languages remain and the communities number around 470,000 people in a nation of 22 million. It is often said that language is culture. So 250 languages spoken means the existence…
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Japan, China, South Korea mull academic credit system
From the Daily Yomiuri due to the lack of archiving. The education ministry has decided to draw up a new framework in conjunction with China and South Korea to allow universities in all three countries to integrate methods to evaluate students’ academic achievements and certify academic credits. The Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology Ministry…
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How to save a Word 2007 document as a PDF
Microsoft Office Word 2007 now allows you to save a document as PDF. All you have to do is choose to save it as a PDF in File Type in the Save or Save as dialogue box. If you don’t see it in the File Type dropdown list you may have to get the update…
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Statistical terms – measurement
Generally, there are four data types in statistics: nominal, ordinal, interval and ratio. Nominal data as the name suggests is characterize data by name. For example, the categorization of someone as male or female is nominal data. There is no order or rank between nominal data or only difference. Ordinal data is data which can…
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Praat
Praat is “a free scientific computer software program for the analysis of speech in phonetics”.
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WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper
This seems like an interesting tool, WordNet 3.0 Vocabulary Helper. Wikipedia defines WordNet as something which “groups English words into sets of synonyms called synsets, provides short, general definitions, and records the various semantic relations between these synonym sets.” Created at Princeton University for research in Machine Translation. An offline version can be downloaded from…
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