In unusually blunt language, he took aim at the Syrian president.

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Set up in 1993 under the Welsh Language Act, the board's main aim has been to promote the use of the Welsh language.

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Powerset, the search engine that Pell created in 2003 and plans to open to the public in 2008, is one of a new crop of "semantic search" start-ups that aim to introduce natural language to the process of finding information on the Web.

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"There's no upside to offensive language, no positives at all unless your aim is to look like a mindless moron, " Mr Elliot said.

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He said the aim of the project is to eventually have Swahili language software operating on thousands of computers at grass roots levels, including primary schools and universities.

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Regional dossiers that aim at providing concise descriptive information and basic educational statistics about minority language education in a specific region of the European Union.

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