> I’m Tom Christiansen, author of Programming Perl and Perl Cookbook from O’Reilly. I work for Grant Street Group, who are always looking to hire more Perl programmers.
ABSTRACT:
First I will explore several different corpora in several different ways, including original research. I will also provide a cautionary tale of how to deceptively misuse and abuse Google N-Grams to provide a pretty picture that seems to prove whatever point you care to mak...
> What notation and symbols are commonly used here?
An evolving list of common abbreviations used on this site can be found here.
Symbols from the International Phonetic Alphabet (IPA) are used to describe pronunciations of words. Transcriptions in IPA are normally contained within slashes (e.g. /kæt/) or square brackets (e.g. [maʊs]).
In addition, some linguistic symbols are used to make it clear whether examples are to be taken as proper English or not. These include:
*: Used in front of an example word or phrase to indicate that the example is ungrammatical (e.g. *Me enjoy eating coo…
@tchrist In what crazy universe does that happen? Or is that a new thing? I was never exposed to IPA before wikipedia started using it heavily, and I don't know anybody in real life who was.
Ə 018F LATIN CAPITAL LETTER SCHWA
* Azerbaijani, ...
* lowercase is 0259
x (cyrillic capital letter schwa - 04D8)
ǝ 01DD LATIN SMALL LETTER TURNED E
* Pan-Nigerian alphabet
* all other usages of schwa are 0259
* uppercase is 018E
x (latin small letter schwa - 0259)
ə 0259 LATIN SMALL LETTER SCHWA
* mid-central unrounded vowel
* uppercase is 018F
* variant uppercase form 018E is associated with 01DD
Usage and alternative words
A simple answer to this one: no, there is no word for pescetarians that is more commonly used or understood than pescetarian (or pescatarian, if you prefer that spelling).
It is not a concept that has been spoken about commonly for very long, and pescetarian is, to m...
@Unihedro Impossible. I don't have enough media exposure to justify getting enough media exposure to have a chance. Don't get me started on my down-with-the-system rant.
@hichris123 They banned him from the debates too, solely because he wasn't interesting from a media ratings point of view, since nobody knew who he was.
@JasonC yeah, I saw. Funny, as that's kinda a catch 22: you can't have enough media attention without being in the debates, but you can't be in the debates without enough media attention.
@JasonC More seriously, learning just the reduced IPA subset of Kenyon and Knott is plenty good enough for you in English. You don’t have to learn all the other sounds used in other languages to get a great deal of good out of it.
@Unihedro Perhaps merely using fewer of them while maintaining their equally unnecessary devastation would suffice. There is no reason to compromise your standards. :)
I have a Canvas where there are different Polyline objects drawn. I would like to find the nearest Polyline from the point that the user pressed on the Canvas. For example, we are looking for the nearest polyline within a 10x10 pixel square centered at the clicked spot. How to realize it cleverly?
One of rare times when I visit English.SE is when I want to find a link clearly saying that "large amount of people" is ugly and wrong and ugly. Sadly, the accepted answer here does not do that.
user259867
> Amount is normally used for nouns that can't be measured. [...] But it can also be used for things that can be measured
@AstroCB true/tp cannot be used for answers because their job is to add the title of the question to the Bayesian doctype 'bad'. If you want to blacklist the poster of the answer, use trueu or tpu.
@derobert yup. For example I wouldn't elect a moderator who doesn't downvote. That tells me he's probably not going to close/delete what needs to go either.
#!/usr/bin/env perl
# English2bjbese - convert English to teenager txtspk
# Tom Christiansen
use v5.14;
use strict;
use warnings;
use open qw(:std :utf8);
use re "/xi";
my $C = "bcdfghjklmnpqrstvwxyz";
my $V = "aeiou"; # no y
my $L = "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz";
#binmode(DATA, ":utf8");
if (@ARGV == 0 && -t STDIN && -t STDERR) {
print STDERR "$0: reading from tty, best type something...\n";
}
while (<>) {
s/ \b easy \b /ez/g;
s/ \b easier \b /ezr/g;
s/ \b easily \b /ezly/g;
See http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook - simple bot is described here: http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/IRC_Bots
Documentation for Bot::BasicBot, which is a wrapper around POE::Component::IRC. http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/184416221
Source of famous bot GumbyBrain, which of course uses...
ABSTRACT:
First I will explore several different corpora in several different ways, including original research. I will also provide a cautionary tale of how to deceptively misuse and abuse Google N-Grams to provide a pretty picture that seems to prove whatever point you care to mak...
Usage and alternative words
A simple answer to this one: no, there is no word for pescetarians that is more commonly used or understood than pescetarian (or pescatarian, if you prefer that spelling).
It is not a concept that has been spoken about commonly for very long, and pescetarian is, to m...
See http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook - simple bot is described here: http://poe.perl.org/?POE_Cookbook/IRC_Bots
Documentation for Bot::BasicBot, which is a wrapper around POE::Component::IRC. http://www.drdobbs.com/web-development/184416221
Source of famous bot GumbyBrain, which of course uses...
