I hate Southern drawls and, it would seem, so do speech recognition and natural language
processing programs.
“SHREVEPORT, La. – Southern drawls have thwarted voice recognition equipment
used by the Shreveport Police Department to route non-emergency calls.”
Initiating Mission-Critical Jargon Reduction
By GEOFFREY NUNBERG
“Asking a business consulting firm to repair the damage business itself has done to the English language may feel a bit like entrusting the school nutrition program to a fried chicken chain. Nonetheless, since last month almost 100,000 people have downloaded a free program from Deloitte Consulting that plugs into Microsoft Word and PowerPoint and flags jargon like ‘best of breed,’ and ‘synergies’ and proposes ordinary English alternatives. The program is called BullFighter.”
User Friendly took a poke at market-speak: Acronymonious March 10, 2003
I hate business-babble. It’s worse than legalese. BTW, the title was generated here.
As a person of Welsh descent, an appreciator of dying tongues, and a supporter of several underdogs, this is a matter of some importance to me.
Trouble in the Motherland:
Impending Death of Welsh as a Community Language
“According to the evidence submitted to the United Nations on May 27 – 31, 2002 in Geneva, Wales is currently experiencing a cultural crisis of such severity that they fall under the United Nations resolution Article 27 of The International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights. This protects threatened minority languages and cultures. The problem is that during the past 200 years, England has never bothered to develop this vassal past agriculture and mining.”
The people of the land of my ancestors are tired of Microsoft ignoring them. There’s a Nynorsk version of Windows, but no Welsh version. So they’re saying screw Windows; let’s use Linux. Muahahahahaha
Welsh Spurn Windows to create own Linux
Matthew Broersma
“Linux User Expo: Wales-based computer users, tired of waiting for a Welsh-language version of Windows, are doing it themselves with open-source KDE desktop software”
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