Well folks, we are less than two months away from the publication of Boston in 50 Maps, so it's about time for me to start clogging your feeds with promotion. (You can pre-order it now! You've been able to for a while!)
First: added a thing about it on my website. andywoodruff.com/posts/2026/b...
I enjoyed it! Canon much more than RoS. Thanks for sharing, I probably wouldn't have tried this out otherwise!
I got tickets for Thursday just on your say-so :)
That's all for now! But hopefully there will be more language tools and other things forthcoming. :)
Lastly, I put up a list of "books I think should be recommended more often than they are". Books that I feel lucky to have encountered, basically, because they could easily have slipped me by. michellefullwood.com/lists/books/...
Sample: "Miss Elizabeth Bennet!" repeated Miss Bingley. "I am all neurosis. How loooooooong has shhe been suuuch a sxey?"
The original being: "Miss Elizabeth Bennet!" repeated Miss Bingley. "I am all astonishment. How long has she been such a favourite?"
5) I reformatted my #NaNoGenMo entry from 2014 (so old!) so make it more pleasant to read, and it's actually still quite funny. Twide and Twejudice: michellefullwood.com/misc/twide-a... It's Pride and Prejudice but with dialogue replaced by words used in a similar context on Twitter.
A map of Singapore with street names colour-coded to reflect their linguistic origin, e.g. red for Chinese languages, green for Malay, blue for British.
4) My linguistic streetmap of Singapore died with CartoDB, but is now back at michellefullwood.com/maps/linguis... #maps #singapore
Screenshot showing a table of Cantonese -> Mandarin initials. Example: the b/b cell shows that out of all the Cantonese syllables that start with a /b/, 93% of the time the equivalent Mandarin syllable also starts with a /b/.
3) I have some tables of #Cantonese / #Mandarin syllable correspondences that I found useful to look at. You can see how reliable the correspondence between certain Cantonese/Mandarin initials, finals, tones, and syllables (i.e. initial + finals) are.
michellefullwood.com/languages/ca...
Screenshot of the Hieroglyphic Egyptian Typewriter. In the textbox is a series of Manuel de Codage (MDC) symbols, and in a box below that are the rendered hieroglyphs. There are buttons for copying as unicode and copying as image, as well as a sign finder.
2) Hieroglyphic Egyptian Typewriter: a tool for easy rendering of short series of hieroglyphs without needing to install JSesh or other keyboards/fonts. Includes a sign picker for quickly locating glyphs you can't remember the number/MDC symbol of.
michellefullwood.com/languages/eg...
Screenshot of the Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary: the word in the textbox is "kitab" and there is a table of possible corresponding words and definitions below.
1) Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary: look up #Arabic words even if you don't know how to spell them.
michellefullwood.com/languages/ar...
I've been rehydrating some desiccated projects, and put them back online on a new website, michellefullwood.com + I've added a couple that I've not shared online before.
Nostalgia, I played this and the bridges one several years ago.
Wow I wonder how they found it. Do they just have a room with thousands of diplomas??
These are all fantastic!