Siri is more powerful than Apple lets on, so it’s up to the tweaking, hacking, tinkerish souls of the jailbreak community to unleash her full potential. Like this latest Siri hack, Lingual. It’s a jailbreak-only tweak that turns Siri into a translation device. Just say what you want to Siri, name the language you want to translate it to, and Siri will display it in its translated glory. More »
If Twitter is useful for anything beyond a flamethrower of breaking news and URL errata, it’s forcing us to be considerate about language — we have to use space wisely. Unfortunately, the hashtag is ruining talking. #NotGonnaLie More »
The collective netisphere appears to be preparing to get its knickers in a twist over Senator Stephen Conroy saying the f-word on a live ABC broadcast. The fact that we even care in an embarrassing indictment of us as a nation. More »
The Dothraki language in Game of Thrones isn’t some slopped-together, haphazard gibberish. As the NY Times tells it, it’s a full-formed, logical vernacular put together by a linguistics expert inspired by languages such as Swahili and Estonian. More »
Google has one of the best language translation technologies around, which they’ve continually improved over the past few years. And now their Android app has the ability to support speech-to-speech translation in 14 languages. More »
It stands to reason that anyone with an online presence will enjoy some level of immortality long after they’re gone. But for the old-school? You had statues and you had nouns. And language is much cooler than sculpted stone.
