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The Indefinite Determiner ‘this’

So this random guy walks up to my table, sits down and starts telling a story out of the blue. I have no idea what he is talking about or who he is referring to when he begins, “So this … Weiterlesen

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The Plan

A: Well, Harold, I’m not sure whether I understand your plan completely, but unless I’m very much mistaken, it involves my death, right? B: Yes, that is correct. A: Well, I don’t want that. B: You don’t… oh, yeah. Sure. … Weiterlesen

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Graph Jokes

I’ve been meaning to get this off my chest for a while:

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Fragmente (5)

Teacher: It’s not wrong, but it’s not standard. Student: So can we choose to write it this way? Teacher: If you want me as your enemy…

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Fragmente (4)

A stops to tie her shoelaces. B: I thought those were just for show. A: Yeah, but the show must go on.

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Island Constraint Violation of the Day (1)

That’s the heat you should get out of the kitchen if you can’t stand.

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Fragmente (3)

He was caught red-handed feigning ignorance.

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Porter Stemmer for German in Python

Anybody need a quick and dirty Python 2.5.2 implementation of the Porter German stemming algorithm? I wrote one for the German S.L.U.T student project today: porterde.py The only testing I did is running it on the complete list of examples … Weiterlesen

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Word of the Day: Internationalizabilization

The process of equipping a software product with the technical infrastructure for translating it into another language, e.g. replacing hard-coded message strings with calls to functions providing the respective message in the user language. Prerequisite to internationalization.

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On Diversity

Arguing for diversity is a tricky business. In my view, the main difficulty is to distinguish between a) why diversity is good in the first place, and b) why it would be bad to lose existing diversity. In his book … Weiterlesen

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