Apple's revised policy will now allow apps to be written using a Flash-based tool, and also removes restrictions on what other programming languages developers may use.
Then, to judge whether people build languages around what their brains are best attuned to, he compared these theoretically best divisions with real-world dividing lines.
He imagined that Ithkuil might be able to do what Lakoff and Johnson said natural languages could not: force its speakers to precisely identify what they mean to say.
Using this, you can talk into the machine and have it turned into any of 50 languages, or hear what that sounds like.
Initially, ABS strove simply to supply Bibles-168 million in the U.S. so far-but later expanded to commissioning new biblical editions and translations into what ABS says is 2, 300 languages.
"Once we have those trees we look at distribution of these different word order features over the descendant languages, and build evolutionary models for what's most likely to produce the diversity that we observe in the world, " Dr Dunn said.
The data released on Wednesday named about 100 languages in response to the question, 'what is your main language?
Ironically, Facebook opted to put a cute little collage in the S-1 filing that shows what are presumably employees holding up signs saying thanks in various languages.
FORBES: Facebook to Future Stockholders: Bow Down to Mark Zuckerberg
The site already has almost 12, 000 birthday wishes coming through in real time (trumping what rest of us are used to seeing on Facebook for birthdays) in languages ranging from Russian to French to Spanish.
FORBES: Thousands Wish Steve Jobs Happy Birthday On Web Site
What Dr Nichols has failed to take into account, according to Dr Nettle, is that languages die out, as well as being born.
This year, I would love to attend a session run by a business person with an English Major background (instead of a PhD in Computer Science), showing what they did with Data at scale, without huge servers, without expensive software or cryptic languages.
Ask a computer what location is my next meeting, or when is my next meeting, and the computer will respond. 9 languages.
FORBES: CES Live: Intel To Put Its Marketing Focus On Ultrabooks
应用推荐