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- How many languages are there in the world? https://www.linguisticsociety.org/content/how-many-languages-are-there-world 11 comments
- How many languages are there in the world? https://www.ethnologue.com/guides/how-many-languages 7 comments
- Hello Many Worlds in Seven Quantum Languages (2021) https://ionq.com/posts/june-24-2021-hello-many-worlds 20 comments
- INFOGRAPHIC: A world of languages - and how many speak them http://www.scmp.com/infographics/article/1810040/infographic-world-languages 9 comments india
- "Many real-world "regular expression" engines implement features that cannot be described by the regular expressions in the sense of formal language theory" https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/regular_expression#patterns_for_non-regular_languages 76 comments programming
- Hello Many Worlds in Seven Quantum Languages https://ionq.com/posts/june-24-2021-hello-many-worlds 2 comments programming
- Language identity in India: One state, many worlds, now what? [The Economist on Karnataka] http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/06/language-identity-india?fsrc=scn/rd_ec/one_state_many_worlds_now_what_ 21 comments india
- SI: ‘Speedball’ Mike Bailey: “PWG is where you go to become a star. The best wrestlers in the world have been there. It’s out-of-this-world talent. My favorite part of this year’s BOLA was the diversity. Backstage, there were so many languages being spoken that I spoke Japanese to Bandido..." https://www.si.com/wrestling/2023/01/12/pwg-battle-of-los-angeles-speedball-mike-bailey 36 comments squaredcircle
- "One state, many worlds, now what?" The Economist's language blog on the knotty relationship between language and cultural identity in southwestern India http://www.economist.com/blogs/johnson/2013/06/language-identity-india?fsrc=scn/rd_ec/one_state_many_worlds_now_what_ 5 comments linguistics
- Why is the "th" sound so rare among the world's languages when so many people use it? https://www.reddit.com/r/linguistics/comments/ncrkjy/why_is_the_th_sound_so_rare_among_the_worlds/ 164 comments linguistics
- Interesting video about Bell Labs (the craddle of many programming languages and technologies that shape our world today) at Computerphile. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QFK6RG47bww 13 comments programming
- Using a new methodology that measures how closely words' meanings are related within and between languages, an international team of researchers has revealed that for many universal concepts, the world's languages feature a common structure of semantic relatedness http://phys.org/news/2016-02-semantically-languages.html 16 comments science
- in the late 70s italian architect, illustrator and industrial designer made a book, an encyclopedia of unknown, parallel world. it’s about 360-380 pages. it is written in an unknown language, using an unknown alphabet,many might call “the strangest book on earth” http://the-dimka.livejournal.com/6645.html 6 comments books
- [Nick Stoll] UEFA sends through a list of languages that each player speaks so media from around the world know who they can interview. Lukaku speaks so many languages that they can't even fit it in the box. https://twitter.com/NickStoll/status/1450267526395404291 10 comments soccer
- [Nick Stoll] UEFA sends through a list of languages that each player speaks so media from around the world know who they can interview. Lukaku speaks so many languages that they can't even fit it in the box. https://twitter.com/nickstoll/status/1450267526395404291?s=21 721 comments soccer
- HJR Murray's book A History of Chess. A very detailed history of the game from 6th century India, following it as it spread all over the world, and if you like thorough analysis of source texts in many languages, and copious citations of those texts, above all a lot of Medieval Latin. http://thewrongmonkey.blogspot.com/2015/07/hjr-murrays-history-of-chess-is.html 4 comments chess