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Myanmar is Mama is Bama is Burma

I will be participating in this year's Summer of Code, working on WordPress internationalization. You can read my full proposal online. Of over 6,000 applications, about 900 were accepted. WordPress could only accept 10 out of about 90 applications. It's bound to be an interesting summer with working on WordPress and Habari at the same time, ...

Everyone drink many beers.

Since the question has been raised how to pronounce Habari: In X-SAMPA, it would be transcribed as [hA"b_<A:ri] with stress on the second to last syllable ("ba"), and h, as in 'house' A, as in 'father', but short b_<, like a normal b, but suck the air IN (this sound does not exist in any Western ...

English has a short, simple word: "undo". The equivalent in German is "Rückgängig machen" or "Ungeschehen machen", and I can't really think of anything shorter than that. What does that say about the cultures?

Die nächste Studentische Tagung Sprachwissenschaft (XLI. StuTS) findet vom 16.05.-20.05. 2007 in Bielefeld statt. Wer's glaubt.

Merriam-Webster's top ten "Words of the Year" 2006 will be determined by an online poll. What could possibly go wrong? I, for one, welcome our new l33tsp34k pwnage w0rd of the year overlordz.