Category Archives: language
Por Favor Use La Otra Puerta
Americans only speak one language? ¿Americanos solamente hablan una lengua? 只有一个语言美国人会说? Depends on where you go. In 10-20 years, what will the major languages of the world be? Perhaps English, Chinese, Arabic, French, Spanish? Only if you’re bound by the physical constraints of signs, the verbal constraints of speech and the mental constraints of knowledge. [...]
Korean Keyboard
A dual-script keyboard, for Korean users. I rarely see keyboards that have only one script that isn’t Roman letters. There’s a simple reason for this: everything about computers, down to the basic programming languages, is done with Roman letters, and until recently, web and email domains had to be Romanized, even if the content is [...]
Faster, Higher, Stronger
One of those funny language problems: in the Western world, how do you make something sound older and more elegant? Use the Latin. Hence, phrases like "e pluribus unum" and "ex cathedra." And, of course, "Citius Altius Fortius". But in the Chinese-speaking world, what do you do? You use the Chinese: 更快，更高，更强.
Huang Xiang
Huang Xiang’s poetry house in Pittsburgh. Read more here.
