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A blog about linguistics by Michael Howard
Joined Sep 2018
Voice assistants are like children:
- Hilarious to talk to
- Good at hanging around in your kitchen
- Rubbish at jokes
- Always much smarter and much stupider than you expect
Tried out #mycroft. Had a blast 🚀👍
https://fumbling.it/first-impressions-mycroft-voice-assistant/
Because it's the season for making too many well-intentioned commitments, here's my reading list for the year 💪📚
fumbling.it/my-2019-reading-list
Is QWERTY the best layout to use when typing Japanese? I suspect it isn't. Here's a post exploring the question: fumbling.it/qwerty-vs-kana/
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Building a standalone IPA keyboard - An interesting series of posts, with photos! https://t.co/KTtAgwDtEk #linguistics
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People with speech disabilities are being left out of the voice-assistant revolution. https://t.co/mgaeWts1qL #linguistics
Is Icelandic really endangered? While I acknowledge this isn't my field of expertise, count me sceptical. https://www.michaelhoward.kiwi/cold-facts/
Leeches, loanwords and lazy linguistics: https://www.michaelhoward.kiwi/sucker-for-etymology/
I built a keyboard to type IPA symbols! You can read about how I made it here: https://www.michaelhoward.kiwi/building-a-standalone-ipa-keyboard-part-4-putting-it-all-together/
What's the Japanese word for milkshake? I recently had a surprisingly hard time finding out...
https://www.michaelhoward.kiwi/for-goodness-shake/
Let's go Mastodon! #firsttoot
A blog about linguistics by Michael Howard
Joined Sep 2018
