Backstory: Are Gaelic-only laws linguistic apartheid?
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Want to buy an Irish country cottage? Some places won't let you unless you're fluent in Irish Gaelic.
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Just been doing some heavy translation from German to English. Which lead to writing a simple command line tool for translating via Google - waste time to save time in other words. Getting a prototype up from scratch took about 15 minutes (which sheds a light on blog spam I guess). Have cleaned it up a bit and dropping it here in case anyone can use it.
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OTTAWA (CP) - Federal and provincial governments have a legal but limited duty to consult First Nations about use of land ensnared in unproven aboriginal claims, says Canada's top court.
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Oggi pronuncia del Tribunale.Nuova lettera di Crisafulli
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A new system of sign language developed by deaf children in Nicaragua may hold clues about the evolution of languages. When the country&#39;s first school for the deaf was established
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A group of white South Africans claim to have composed the longest poem ever written in their native Afrikaans tongue, hoping to trigger a renaissance in the minority language.
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Ethnic minority groups in Northern Ireland are warned by police of threats to attack them.
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OTTAWA (CP) - The government should exempt its bilingual plan from a review of all federal spending, and in fact should speed up the process, the official languages commissioner says.
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Mistakes prompt a demand for grammar to be policed.
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Ireland should legalize civil partnerships between unmarried couples, including homosexuals, but not pursue full-fledged "gay marriage," Justice Minister Michael McDowell said Saturday in his first major policy speech on the matter.
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The enlargement of the European Union from 15 to 25 member-states with nine new languages has created a kind of linguistic big bang in Brussels, with new headaches for intepreters.
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In a new post on his blog, Kore Nordmann takes a look at a feature that's been around a long time (first introduced in a message board application) - BBCodes.   The discussion on my blog post "Do not use regular expressions for parsing" ended in a discussion about BBcodes in general. I just used them as an example to demonstrate why it it is impossible to parse such a language with regular expressions - and mentioned in a subclause, that I don't see any sense in using them at all.   He looks at some of the myths surrounding them and their use (more secure, easier to use, safer than HTML) and gives some reasons for making teh choice of HTML over them.
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Thomas Cook are being asked to explain why it has asked staff to speak only English in business dealings.
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At 2 years old, Lanah Boissy has perfected the art of linguistic one-upmanship. Perched in a highchair at dinnertime in Sterling, she will say something in Farsi, wait for a look of bafflement from her Senegal-born parents and dissolve into giggles when they are forced to ask if she would please...
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By CHINTA PUXLEY  TORONTO (CP) - An Ontario Court of Appeal decision that allows Six Nations protesters to legally continue occupying a disputed tract of land in Caledonia, Ont., shows that aboriginals are above the law, the mayor of the southern Ontario town said Thursday.
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Â· Dozens turned down by local Catholic primaries Â· Councillor warns of mini apartheid in seaside town
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Parliament's decision to hold its 2006 autumn session in the Romansh-speaking part of Switzerland has catapulted the lesser-known fourth national language into the limelight.