Language Definition and 601 Threads

There's a new bill in the House, http://thomas.loc.gov/cgi-bin/query/z?c109:H.R.997: : Why does the US need an official language? And why have only one? BTW, the bill is really short and easy (1-4 minutes).

Maybe I'm not thinking, but what programming language do our new upcoming consoles use when companys create games for them? p.s. if I am having a brain fart please have patience :shy: post 69 :P

Could someone explain this to me. Why do a large number of schools require that a math PhD have knowledge of 1, or more, foreign languages? I talked to my Math professor about this last semester and he said it was a joke in that he never really used it. However, he did not have to take a...

In the states there is a positive stereotype about the high performance of Asian students academically, particularly in the maths and sciences. I have heard there is a study of american students that showed asians scoring an average of 10 points higher IQ than other groups, but this is...

If I'm going to attempt creating computer programs for simulating theories as complicated as string theory, what language should I be looking at? I have some experience with C++, but if I'm going to devote a large part of my free time to learning a language, I'd like to learn something that...

is it possible to think without a language? Helen Keller knew nothing about language until the age of 16 when she began to speak. To any deaf and mute person, language would not be a medium of thought, or would it? My Father says he thinks in pictures, but to me that in a way makes no sense...

I'm a native english speaker who took latin in high school. What language do you think I should learn in college? I'm considering ancient greek because I might go for a classics major, but I'm also thinking about something that would make it easier to travel the world. Other possible majors...

Is English superior to other languages for use in the sciences, or is this an illusion of history? Would you dare mention a computer language that rivals English for overall science applications? Are optimum scientific languages more object- or observer-based? What has Noam Chomsky to say of...

This really isn't a homework question, but a curiosity prompted by being marked off for a gramatical error. I am going to go to the store. I'm going to go to the store. Both are accepted in conversational English, but in the 2nd one, I'm is a proper contraction for I am, but gonna...

Can anyone show me how to get good reference materials for Turbo Assembly language for DOS applications? Any complete reference tutorial websites or reference books woul be sufficient. I have been googling and yahooing but still cannot find one good reference. Thanks.

On a message board that I'm moderating, we have a language filter installed. We frankly don't mind bad language, but the problem is many of our users acess from colleges, libraries etc, which block pages with bad language in them. One of our users has figured out that inserting tags into a word...

...by Donald Johanson & Blake Edgar In 1974, Donald Johanson helped to discover the famous fossil specimen of Australopithecus afarensis nicknamed “Lucy”. This book is simply an invaluable source of information about hominid evolution. Part 1 of the book walks you through the modern...

I am looking at classes for my undergraduate degree. My high school's foreign language program was aimed at getting the state schools' prerequisite of two years of foreign language out of the way. So German 3 was not really looked at and seldom had enough people sign up to even create a class...

Do threads get locked for bad language? If not how much can i get away with before the whatever thread gets locked?

A couple of months ago, my friend told me a story. The story was about an incident that occurred when he was working at the movie theater. He explained how two "gangster" girls were there talking, and amongst the profanities, there was, "yo because i bet her up the other day". Of course, my...

Hi, I live in Canada its mandatory to take French courses here. Just wondering what language is it mandetory to learn in America? Thanks in advance!

If I say to the average something is s**t, it is bad, however if I say it is the s**t, then it is good. Am I the only one who sees little or no sense in this? In summary, the language of kids today is terrible. yours relentlessly, Mattypoo xxx

I'm working on a project that I believe should be pretty simple to do if I actually knew assembly language. For my program I'm suppose to start at data memory location 0x30 and perform the increment, decrement, complement, and clear operations. The operations are all performed on location...

Can someone explain to me how limit switch works in everday language, I got some sources that are too technical. Thank you,

Is it possible to construct a Logically Perfect Language? If so, of what value is such a language?

i have a feeling this has been posted b4 (language, like chinese, russian, swahili, english, spanish, japanese, sanskrit...etc) Do u think that language determines a people's or person's comprehension/aptitute/intelligence...their way of thinking? For a language without or definitions for...

Which statements are true? A) A vector can have zero magnitude if one of its components is not zero. B) If a + b = c and a2 + b2 = c2, then the angle between a and b is 90°. C) Two vectors having different magnitudes can be combined to give a vector sum of zero. D) The magnitude of the...

How important are foreign languages when you are pursuing physics or chemistry? The centers of research are all in English speaking countries (U.S., England) and any foreign students must learn English proficiently to survive in their new countries. So naturally, I wouldn't need to learn any...

I'm curious about writing a graphical plotting program to suplement an existing program. I've been working on a Zeta function root finder for a few months now, and I'd like to be able to graph some aspects of the Zeta function as well as many more functions. I'm contemplating what language to...

"Ethical" Language? 1. Why is it unethical to use vulgarity? 2. Why is it polite to refrain from using vulgarity? 3. Is this an ethics issue? Vulgarity is an enigma. The English language is awash in vulgar terms that are frequently and superfluously used, yet there are rules which prohibit...

I'd guess the answer is obvious :smile: My nextdoor neighbor's field is Linguistics. She specializes in Sociolinguistics---what can you tell about society from the words people use, and avoid using. She can listen to the news coverage of an event and often get an essay out of the...

hello all Im new here but is anyone familiar with the fortran language? I need to make a program to do the following: a) read a 3x3 array of REAL NUMBERS b) calculate the inverse of the 3x3 matrix c) write out the answer and the original Matrix d) multiply two 3x3 matrices. this...

I was wondering if a non-English version of MS Office can run smoothly in the English version of WinXP... with the taskbar buttons in the program properly displayed, etc. Thanks for answering :)

The proposed theory is:- That language development sets the absolute limits for the pace of change. (Or conversely is the most crucial catalyst for change) The rate of human progress is controlled by the language constructs used for:- firstly cognitive mental process and secondly...

I was wondering if someone could compile a list of the newest and best computer languages to learn and what they would be for. I was considering learning something this summer after studying physics for awhile but I don't know where to start. I already know some languages Ti 83 basic and some...

can anyone let me know where to get more info about natural language? tks

the 19th century German Philosopher Wilhelm von Humboldt claimed that language was directly connected to thinking that people around the world should actually think differently due to their native language the American linguist Benjamin Lee Whorf based his (Whorf-Hypothesis) on the...

Do you think it's a good idea to make a whole new language for science/scientists? Any ideas on how it'd work? Can maths could be considered such a language? Have there been attempts in the past to create such a language? Woud it hinder progress in the long run? Would it make it harder...

Can you tell me about it ? Where does it come from ? Why do we understand each other though we speak different languages ? Thanks in advance

I'd like to ask for some opinions about what I've been developing. It's about visual language and thinking visually. Originally I was just trying to satisfy my own curiosity, if I could create many different kind of geometrical figures, which could act as an useful tools for my thoughts, but I...

Say I have 3 modules and I want them to connect them together (make them work together. Ie, output of one module would go into another etc.), how would I do this in verilog?

This is purely speculative and deals with a quirky concept that quite probably no one else will have any interest. Still, I offer it nonetheless, in the hope that some of you might respond. Suppose there was a society in which the people spoke in mathematical terms. They have a complex...

For those who enjoy language These made me smile: Those who jump off a bridge in Paris are in Seine. A backward poet writes inverse. A man's home is his castle, in a manor of speaking. Dijon vu - the same mustard as before. Practice safe eating -...

would a common language bring better understanding between various factions around the world? why did esperanto die out? why do we stick with crazy ways for spelling, like, knob,vacuum,phantom why not nob,vakume,fantom?

I just recently delved into a new Langauge [Latin] and this question ran through my mind. How does learning a language differ from learning just any other information? Certianly there is a different process that must take place for one to learn language and actually think in that language...

I am wondering, does it give one an edge to know programming language in Biomolecular Sciences? For instance if a certain analysis, maybe statistical, needs to be done.. and you can write your own little program.. If so, which languages would be the best to master? Visual Basics, C++, Oracle..?

If you could just program in one language for the rest of your life...which one would it be? Python for me. It can do just about anything and the community of users continues to advance it. It is also free and simple.

Can you disprove "real life" mathematically? Then this thread may be a place to ask for translations from people in the know... Can anyone tell me what this means? "Yeah, yeah, and yer mother wears army boots."

You can find this point of view here: http://www.geocities.com/complementarytheory/CATpage.html I'll be glad to get your remarks and insights. Doron

Is foul language the New "Normal"? 24/07/2003 So "foul mouthed" language, is it really as prevalent as some people would like us all to think? Or is it just a "social misnomer" inasmuch as some people do not realize that, outside of their circle of friends, things, like this kind of...

I got this impression, but in this case, how could it be this way ?

Hi, To check a bijection between two sets, we have to look at the contents of the two examined sets as if they are discrete elements, otherwise we can't use the bijection method. |R| = Continuum, so my question is, how can we check if there is or there is not a bijection between |Q|...

I found another of my old threads, from PF2, and decided that I would like everyone's opinion on this topic again... Some have said that mathematics is a way of description that was invented by man. Some say that mathematics is causal, and that the universe conforms to mathematics...

Hello Email dependent colleagues, By the time I got into this business I was pestered by spam but was relieved to find at the bottom of a page an offer to cease the unwanted postings. Shortly, having failed to achieve success because, as someone informed me, any response received by a spammer...

For the English language experts: This thread is intended only to determine what right the 2nd amendment to the US Constitution gives to it’s citizens. Some believe it to mean that if your in a militia you’re entitled to bear arms when necessary. Others believe it to mean any citizen can...