Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Aug 19, 2008	Wordle
“Wordle is a toy for generating ‘word clouds’ from text that you provide. The clouds give greater prominence to words that appear more frequently in the source text. You can tweak your clouds with different fonts, layouts, and color schemes. The images you create...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Aug 14, 2008	The Kimchi Struggle
My first encounter with “ kimchi ” was when my brother-in-law brought three containers of this dish from Manila ten years ago. Kimchi is actually this traditional Korean dish made of vegetables, like cabbage, that was fermented with a variety of seasoning. So the moment my...... [view]

Posted By:  zambia Posted On:  Aug 14, 2008	Good spelling saves some yelling
Because I'm Indian, many people assume I'm good at spelling. After all, six of the last 10 winners of the National Spelling Bee are of Indian descent and three of them are now making millions on the PSA (Professional Spelling Association) tour. Unfortunately, I'm a terrible speller....... [view]

Posted By:  Katea Posted On:  Aug 12, 2008	Learning a New Language
Since my visit to Mexico, I had this dream of learning the Spanish language whole-heartedly. Although I took Basic Spanish a few years back, I only remembered a few phrases. The Filipino language has similarity in the Spanish language, as a matter of fact, there are so many Filipino words that...... [view]

Posted By:  tidazstrife Posted On:  Aug 4, 2008	First Information of IX Bahasa Congress
PUBLIC ANNOUNCEMENT IX BAHASA CONGRESS Jakarta, 28 October – 1 November 2008 What have been done in the passed of national evocation of this nation in a century? The raising of independence of struggle organization, Boedi Oetomo, in 1908, he had been raised the awareness of being involved...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Aug 1, 2008	Sgt Pipper’s Looney Huts Glib Band
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Posted By:  tidazstrife Posted On:  Aug 1, 2008	Local Language: Totally Disappeared or Hold Out
Language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way or the system of communication used by a particular community or country. Language also has become the important part in our life could explain about our...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Jul 31, 2008	New Mexico first state to adopt Navajo textbook
“State officials formally adopted … ‘Dine Bizaad Binahoo’ahh,’ or ‘Rediscovering the Navajo Language,’ this week in Santa Fe.” In the Navajo language, there’s no one word that translates into “go” — it’s more like a...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Jul 30, 2008	11. The world may be your oyster, but can you speak its language?
What language do oysters speak? Oyster, of course! If you want to learn a real language, for example Frysian (yeah, I didn’t know that was a real language either–it’s the second language of the Netherlands, behind Dutch, and is spoken by some 500,000 people), eduFire is...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Nov 29, 2008	10. Ten. Dieci. X.
Rome: It’s beautiful and it’s not. Kinda like everything else in life. “La prossima fermata è Roma Termini.” I moved to Italy to live at the end of September last year. I lived in Brescia (a medium-sized city in Northern Italy) until March 1, when I...... [view]

Posted By:  malcs64 Posted On:  Nov 29, 2002	Introduction by Gardenia Hung, M.A., B.A.
Good Morning!  Pax et Bonum.  My name is Gardenia C. Hung.  I am a returning writer for the Tower of Babel since 1998.  On the tenth anniversary, in 2008, I have been invited to contribute as an author to the Babel Blog and continue to help building the Tower of Babel Online...... [view]

Submitted By:   nallison36 Event Date:  Feb 28, 2008 & Time: 19:30 PM-22:00 PM Event Location:  Kalish Mital (former Alumni Hall), Carleton University [view]

Rudy Weibe at Carleton University