Klingon Language Institute - Klingon Language Institute The Klingon Language Institute is an organization devoted to studying and teaching the Klingon language. This article is a stub. You can help Wikipedia by fixing it..
Klingon language - Klingon language The Klingon language (in Klingon, tlhIngan Hol) is a constructed language created by Marc Okrand for Paramount and spoken by Klingons in the fictional Star Trek universe. He designed the language with Object Verb Subject word order to give an alien feel to the language. A description of the Klingon language can be found in Dr. Marc Okrand's book The Klingon Dictionary (Published by Pocket Books, Simon & Schuster, 1985, second edition with new addendum 1992, ISBN 067174559X). Other notable works include The Klingon Way (with Klingon sayings and proverbs), Klingon for the Galactic Traveler and the two audio productions Conversational Klingon and Power Klingon. Three books have also been published in the tongue: Hamlet, ghIlghameS (Gilgamesh) and paghmo' tIn mIS (Much Ado About.
Constructed language - Constructed language An artificial or constructed language, colloquially conlang, is a language whose vocabulary and grammar were specifically devised by humans, rather than having naturally evolved as part of a culture like a natural language. Some are designed for use in human communication, the same as natural languages, usually to function as an international auxiliary language, but others are created for use in fiction, linguistic experimentation, secrecy (codes), or simply for the sake of it. Conlangers differ on whether linguistic creation of the last kind is to be considered an art or a hobby. The term planned language is also used, when referring to international auxiliary languages, and by those who may object to the more common term "artificial". Speakers of Esperanto, for example, have said that.
Klingon - Klingon Klingons, a race of humanoids in the fictional Star Trek universe, were the main antagonists in Star Trek: The Original Series and later became the uneasy allies of the United Federation of Planets. They were introduced in the episode Errand of Mercy. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Klingon biology 2 Klingon religion 3 History of the Klingon Empire 4 Klingon leadership 5 Klingon hand weapons 6 Extent of the Klingon Empire 7 Trivia 8 External Links Klingon biology Roughly humanoid in appearance, Klingons typically sport long manes of luxuriant hair, and for males, mustaches, and beards. Perhaps their most prominent external feature is their ridged forehead. These intricate, bony patterns vary by family line and are an evolutionary remnant of their prehistoric forms, when Klingons.
ILR or Foreign Service Level language ability measures - ILR or Foreign Service Level language ability measures The Interagency Language Roundtable (ILR) scale is a set of descriptions of abilities to communicate in a language. It was originally developed by the United States Foreign Service Institute, and is still widely known as the FSI scale. It consists of descriptions of five levels of language proficiency. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Foreign Service Level 1 - Elementary proficiency 2 Foreign Service Level 2 - Limited working proficiency 3 Foreign Service Level 3 - Professional working proficiency 4 Foreign Service Level 4 - Full professional proficiency 5 Foreign Service Level 5 - Native or bilingual proficiency 6 External Links Foreign Service Level 1 - Elementary proficiency Elementary proficiency is the first level in the scale. This level is sometimes referred to.
Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man - Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man Institute for the Harmonious Development of Man was an esoteric spiritual school founded by G. I. Gurdjieff in 1922 also known as Le Prieuré for the name of the property that he purchased in Fontainebleau-Avon south of Paris in France. The school was dedicated to work on oneself as a means of spiritual self-perfection and self-observation in the struggle against waking sleep towards achieving the state of self-remembering or subjective consciousness -- the third state of consciousness -- there being four states of consciousness in total. The following excerpt by an article of Clifford Sharpe "The Forest Philosophers" gives a flavour of the atmosphere at the Institute: The psychological aspect of the Gurdjieff-Ouspensky teaching might be briefly described as.
Information Processing Language - Information Processing Language Information Processing Language (IPL) was a programming language developed by Allen Newell, Cliff Shaw and Herbert Simon at RAND Corporation and the Carnegie Institute of Technology from about 1956. It included features intended to support programs that could perform general problem solving, including lists, associations, schemas (frames), dynamic memory allocation, data types, recursion, associative retrieval, functions as arguments, and generators (streams). Newell had the role of language specifier/application programmer, Shaw was the system programmer and Simon took the role of application programmer/user. IPL was used to implement two of the first artificial intelligence programs, by the same authors: the Logic Theory Machine (1956) and the General Problem Solver (1957), and also their chess program NSS (1958). IPL pioneered the concept of list processing. The first.
Guttural language - Guttural language A guttural language is a language that contains guttural sounds-- these are produced from the pharynx at the back of the throat or by the back of the tongue, as well as the palate and uvula. The word guttural is derived from the French and Latin denoting coming from the throat. Sometimes whether a language is guttural or not could depend on differences within regions and countries. The study of "gutturals" falls under the field of phonetics. Thus, it means that a pronounced or heavy sound, letter, and word that emanates from the pharynx and up from the back of the throat makes a certain kind of very heavy and pronounced "throaty" sound, very alien to the modern spoken English language and sometimes found to.
Fictional language - Fictional language Some authors use fictional languages as a device to underline differences in culture, by having their characters communicate in a fashion which is both alien and dislocated. Primary examples of this are: George Orwell's Newspeak in Nineteen Eighty-Four Anthony Burgess's Nadsat in A Clockwork Orange Iain M. Banks' Marain in his Culture novels and Ursula K. LeGuin's Pravic in The Dispossessed. Some of these languages are presented as distorted versions of modern English. Jack Womack's Dryco novels feature a future form of English with a modified grammar. A fictional language is separated from an artlang (language constructed for beauty or fun) by both purpose and relative completion: a fictional language generally has the least amount of grammar and vocabulary possible, and it is made usually.
Filipino language - Filipino language Filipino is the national language and one of the official languages of the Philippines along with English. The language, a member of the Austronesian languages, was primarily based on Tagalog. On November 13, 1937, the First National Assembly created the National Language Institute, which selected Tagalog for the basis of a new national language. In 1961, this language became known as Pilipino which was later renamed as Filipino. When the national language-based Tagalog was developed, Lope K. Santos wrote the Balarila ng Wikang Pambansa and introduced the Abakada of 20 letters in which only one letter represents one meaningful sound in Tagalog. The 20 letters of Abakada are written as a b k d e g h i l m n ng o p r.
Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film - Academy Award for Best Foreign Language Film Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 As a Special Award 2 As an Honorary Award 3 As a category in its own right As a Special Award 1947 Shoeshine (Sciuscià) (Italy) - Societa Co-operativa Alfa Cinematografica - Paolo William Tamburella producer - Vittorio De Sica director 1948 Monsieur Vincent (France) - E. D. I. C., Union Général Cinématographique - George de la Grandiere producer - Maurice Cloche director 1949 The Bicycle Thief (Ladri di biciclette) (Italy) - Mayer - Vittorio De Sica producer and director As an Honorary Award 1950 The Walls of Malapaga (Au delà des grilles) (France/Italy) - Francinex, Italia Produzione - George Agliani and Alfredo Guarini producers - René Clément director 1951 Rashomon (羅生門) (Japan) - Daiei Motion Picture Co,, Daiei.
Thai language - Thai language Thai (th. ภาษาไทย (paasaa thai), lit. the language of Thai) is the official language of Thailand, and of no other country. It is part of the Tai/Daic language family, whose origin is uncertain but which is sometimes linked to the Austroasiatic, the Austronesian or Sino-Tibetan language families. Thai is a tonal language, with both lexical and grammatical uses of tones. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Dialects 2 Thai alphabet 3 Grammar 3.1 Tones 3.2 Word-Order 3.3 Adjectives 3.4 Verbs 3.5 Nouns 3.6 Pronouns 3.6.1 For conversational use 3.6.2 For sacred and royal use 3.7 Adjectives 3.8 Adverbs 3.9 Polite Particles 3.10 Classes of Thai 4 Six-hour clock 5 Reference 5.11 Learn Thai Dialects The status of many of these dialects is debated. Standard or Central.
Categorical list of programming languages - list of programming languages This is a list of programming language grouped by category. See also Alphabetical list of programming languages Chronological list of programming languages Generational list of programming languages Assembly languages directly correspond to a machine language (see below) in order to allow machine code instructions to be written in a form understandable by humans. Assembly languages allow programmers to use symbolic addresses which are later converted to absolute addresses by the assembler. Most assemblers also allow for macros and symbolic constants as well. SSK (Sistema Simvolicheskogo Kodirovaniya, or "System of symbolic coding") for Minsk family of computers. AKI (AvtoKod Ingenera, i.e., "engineer's autocode") for Minsk family of computers was half-step away from assembly languages and doesn't really fit into any other categories in this article. Authoring languages Tutor.
Common phrases in different languages - of common phrases in different languages. It is possible for tourists in a country whose language they do not understand to get along with a surprisingly short list of phrases, combined with pointing, miming, and writing down numbers on paper. You are invited to add more languages to the list. Please use the minimum number of words that would be understandable and put the pronunciation in slashes according to SAMPA transcription if possible. If desired, also add a pseudo-English pronunciation guide for those not familiar with SAMPA or IPA. However, actual pronunciations of the pseudo-English spellings will vary wildly from speaker to speaker. Enclose the "spelling guide" in parentheses, separate syllables with dashes, use English words that sound like the syllables if possible, and render the stressed syllable in ALL CAPS..
COWSEL programming language - COWSEL programming language COWSEL is the COntrolled Working SpacE Language. Between 1964 and 1966, it was designed and implemented by Robin Popplestone, initially on a Ferranti Pegasus computer at the University of Leeds and on a Stantec Zebra at the Bradford Institute of Technology; later with Rod Burstall on an Elliot 4120 at the University of Edinburgh. It was based on a reverse Polish form of Lisp combined with some ideas from CPL. In the summer of 1966 it was renamed POP-1 and development continued under that name. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Example Code 2 Reference 3.
Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation - Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation The Western Hemisphere Institute for Security Cooperation (WHISC) (School of the Americas (SOA)) is a US Army facility at Fort Benning in Columbus, Georgia. It is a Spanish language training facility especially for Latin American military personnel. Around 60,000 people have taken courses, roughly 1,000 a year. The SOA was renamed to WHISC in January 2001 as part of the National Defense Authorization Act. The institute's remit is "to provide professional education and training" while "promoting democratic values, respect for human rights, and knowledge and understanding of United States customs and traditions" WHISC's $10 million budget is funded by the Army and by tuition fees, usually paid through the International Military Education and Training (IMET) grants, the International Narcotics Control (INC) assistance.
PHP programming language - PHP programming language For the "PHP" Cold-war history project, see Parallel History Project. PHP (now a recursive acronym for "PHP Hypertext Preprocessor", but originally "Personal Home Page Tools") is a widely used open-source programming language used primarily for server-side applications, to develop dynamic web content such as the MediaWiki software. It can be seen as an open source alternative to Microsoft's Active Server Pages (ASP) system and to the CGI/Perl system. Its ease of use and similarity with the most common structured programming languages, most notably C and Perl, allows most experienced programmers to start developing complex applications with a minimal learning curve. It also enables experienced developers to get involved with dynamic web content applications without having to learn a whole new set of functions and practices..
Klamath County, Oregon - all federal reclamation projects--the Klamath Project, which drained much of the 128 square mile Lower Klamath Lake to provide 188,000 acres of irrigable land. Starting in the summer of 2001, the water resources for this project have been insufficient to meet both wildlife and farming needs, and the local rainfall has been insufficient. The Bureau of Land Management concluded that the language of the Endangered Species Act gave priority use of water to the sucker fish of the Klamath Lakes and the wild salmon of the Klamath River, and cut off water deliveries to 1,400 farmers of the Klamath Project. This resulted in numerous demonstrations and farm-related bankrupcies. In the following summer, there was once again insufficient water for both irrigation and wildlife. The Bush administration ruled that farmers would this.
Koyaanisqatsi - shot of a cityscape with one of a computer chip. The documentary has no dialogue but does feature the Hopi Indian word koyaanisqatsi chanted over a score by Philip Glass, as well as a few different Hopi prophecies in their native language; interpretation is left to the viewer, although the meanings of the word (including "crazy life," "life in turmoil," "life disintegrating," "life out of balance," and "a way of life which calls for another way of living") seem to offer clues. The Hopi prophecies are translated at the film's end; these are generally dour forecasts of boiling oceans, burnt land, cobwebs in the sky--for instance, one is "If we dig precious things from the land, we will invite disaster." The film was made over the course of about six years,.
Konrad Zuse - world's first working programmable computer in 1941 and the design of the first high-level programming language Plankalkül in 1945 (although the language was never actually implemented within his lifetime). Born in Berlin, Germany, Zuse graduated in engineering from the Technische Hochschule Berlin-Charlottenburg (today the Technische Universität Berlin or Technical University of Berlin) in 1935. He started work at the Henschel aircraft factory in Dessau, but only one year later he resigned from his job to build a programmable machine. Working in his parents' apartment in 1938, his first attempt, called the Z1, was a binary electrically driven mechanical calculator with limited programmability, reading instructions from punched tape. The Z1 never worked well, though, due to the lack of sufficiently precise parts. The Z1 and its original blueprints were destroyed during World.
