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The Motley Fool January 14, 2004 Selena Maranjian |
Learn a Language, Get a Job Multilingual workers are in demand. |
Technology Research News December 17, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
PDA translates speech Handheld computers are getting powerful enough, and speech recognition software accurate enough, that travelers, soldiers and aid workers in foreign countries could soon have automatic speech translation in hand. A prototype Arabic-English medical translator is a significant milestone. |
Inc. December 2003 Bobbie Gossage |
Talking the Talk This fall, Webster released its first guide to business terms. Can you talk the talk? |
PC Magazine December 30, 2003 |
EZ Interaction If UR [you are] SITD [still in the dark] about the odd words and character combinations in today's electronic communications, you need to GWTP [get with the program]. HTH [hope this helps]. |
Technology Research News December 3, 2003 Kimberly Patch |
Software paraphrases sentences Humans have many ways of expressing a given idea, but paraphrasing is a serious challenge for literal-minded computers. A new system that learns by tracking news stories from several sources is able to paraphrase at the sentence level. |
ifeminists December 2, 2003 Rex Curry |
Mistress and Slav? Los Angeles officials have asked that suppliers of computer equipment stop using the terms "master" and "slave," saying such terms are offensive. The terms are sometimes used in reference to computer equipment. |
CIO December 1, 2003 David Rosenbaum |
What to Call a Group of Users, and Other Useful Suggestions - I.T. Lingo IT has its own collective nouns. There's the bank of servers and the bundle of applications. Those are, however, a pallid pack, and we wanted to come up with better, more evocative ones--ones that would illuminate the true swashbuckling character of the IT discipline. |
Reason November 2003 Julian Sanchez |
Dirty Words Education professor Diane Ravitch found a disturbing catalog of bipartisan censorship in public school curricula, which she presents in her new book, The Language Police. |
Knowledge@Wharton August 13, 2003 |
Habla Espanol? Your Company Will Soon Have to Do That U.S. executives unschooled in Spanish are learning one key phrase these days -- "Estamos para servirle" -- a popular expression meaning, "We are here to serve you." Companies that don't understand the meaning or importance of those words risk ignoring a major business opportunity. |
AskMen.com June 24, 2003 Jordan Stein |
What's Up With Lame Catchphrases? It's all good, don't go there, you da man; expressions that too often rest on the tips of people's tongues and expose the harsh reality of a nation that's forgetting how to speak. |
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