"Brimming with intelligence and personality, a vastly entertaining account of how dictionaries are made - a must read for word mavens. Have you ever tried to define the word 'is?' Do you have strong feelings about the word (and, yes, it is a word) 'irregardless?' Did you know that OMG was first used in 1917, in a letter to Winston Churchill? These are the questions that keep lexicographers up at night. While most of us might take dictionaries for...

El autor Matemático devoto y humorista escéptico (un pesimista que ríe). Ha escrito "Invitación al estudio de la aritmética de curvas elípticas" (libro), "El gran giro" (pieza teatral en dos actos y un entreacto animado). Artículos múltiples por aquí y por allá.

A history and celebration of the many far-flung volunteers who helped define the English language, word by word. For the first time ever, this thrilling literary detective story, doubling as a celebration of words, language, people and one of mankind's greatest achievements, unravels the mystery of the contributors from around the world who, for over seventy years, helped to codify the way we read, write and speak.

Le parler kinois, pratiqué à Kinshasa et dans les communautés kinoises, constitue un mélange de lingala, de kikongo, de français et d'argot. Il ne respecte pas les règles de grammaire, mêlant le singulier et le pluriel, sans que cela ne vexe personne. Ce lexique, loin d'être exhaustif - on s'en doute -, reprend cependant bon nombre de termes, d'expressions à la mode d'hier ou d'autres en vogue aujourd'hui et constitue en quelque sorte une...

About the Book India has a rich grammatical tradition, still extant in the form of PÀõini's grammar as well as the theories of verbal cognition. These two together provide a formal theory of language communication. The formal nature of the theory makes it directly relevant to the new technology called Natural Language Processing. This book, first presents the key concepts from the Indian Grammatical Tradition (IGT) that are necessary for understanding...

Cet abécédaire reprend des mots du langage courant souvent employés à mauvais escient... C'est un support pédagogique listant de A à Z les éléments d'une science, d'un art, d'un parti pris. L'Abécédaire que vous tenez en main en ce moment liste des mots qui font partie du langage courant et que nous employons souvent de manière empirique, sans vraiment en connaître le ou les différents sens. 500 millions, vous aviez bien lu, nous sommes...

Whether you're a translator, interpreter, terminologist, or just someone who is passionate about language, "Terminology extraction for translation and interpretation made easy" is your guide to creating terminology extraction lists quickly and easily—while keeping your client's data safe. This book provides a step-by-step guide to terminology extraction by showing you how you can automate the creation of terminology extraction lists as much as possible....

El léxico de El Quijote, concebido a modo de diccionario, explica y aclara vocabulario, expresiones y refranes que aparecen en El Quijote, que, en la actualidad, por no ser habituales o haber cambiado de significado, pueden llevar a confusión a los lectores de tan magna obra. EL AUTOR Juan Hernández Herrero (Salamanca) es licenciado en Medicina y especializado en cardiología. Ha sido durante años profesor de Cardiología en la Universitat Autònoma...

What do "the whole kit and caboodle," "the whole shebang," "the whole megillah," "the whole enchilada," "the whole nine yards," "the whole box and dice," and "the full Monty" have in common? They're all expressions that mean "the entire quantity," and they're all examples of the breadth and depth of the English-speaking world's vocabulary. From the multitude of words and phrases in daily use, the author of this delightful exploration into what we...

"A Choice Outstanding Academic Title of the Year" Peter Martin is the author of numerous books, including the acclaimed biographies Samuel Johnson and A Life of James Boswell. He has taught English literature in the United States and England and divides his time between West Sussex, England, and Spain. A compelling history of the national conflicts that resulted from efforts to produce the first definitive American dictionary of English In The...