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		<title>Recent innovations in Global Glossary</title>
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		<pubDate>Wed, 16 Nov 2011 13:53:05 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[My new pet project Global Glossary (which I have introduced in a previous blog post) has been going from strength to strength for some time and has been acquiring new features gradually. So I though it would be a good idea to post a commented summary now of the most significant recent innovations. Here it [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=171&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Global Glossary: probably the biggest dictionary in the world</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2011/06/25/global-glossary-probably-the-biggest-dictionary-in-the-world/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 25 Jun 2011 16:44:12 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[It is time I introduced the readers of my blog (all three of them) to my new pet project: a website that claims to be – probably – the biggest dictionary in the world. The website, called Global Glossary, is a collection of bilingual glossaries in 95 languages and contains over 25 million entries. Global [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=159&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>How not to order a beer around the world</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 25 Apr 2011 03:08:28 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with languages]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[This is a beautiful poster I spotted recently in a bar in north Dublin. It’s titled How to order a beer around the world and features phrases one can use in various languages to, well, order a beer. Combining my keen interest in languages with my even keener interest in beer, it drew me to [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=145&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Did Mark Zuckerberg really “invent” Facebook?</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 28 Dec 2010 01:30:14 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
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		<description><![CDATA[So Mark Zuckerberg, the creator of Facebook, has been named Time Magazine&#8217;s Person of the Year. That is great and certainly not undeserved, but there is one thing in the media coverage that I just can&#8217;t resist commenting on. A lot of people say and write that Mark Zuckerberg invented Facebook. I do not think [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=136&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>‘A series of tubes’, or an impassioned tirade on how internet terminology gets mangled by people who don’t know what they’re talking about</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2010/06/15/a-series-of-tubes/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 15 Jun 2010 14:52:09 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with languages]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[Ever since the Internet ceased being a domain of IT professionals and started being a domain of the average citizen, we IT professionals are constantly having to deal with people who use internet terminology inaccurately. A classical example is the US Senator Ted Stevens who famously declared in 2006 that the Internet was a ‘series [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=127&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Living with a diacritic</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2010/02/13/living-with-a-diacritic/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 13 Feb 2010 17:37:19 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with languages]]></category>
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		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multikulti.wordpress.com/?p=117</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[No, this is not an article about living with an obscure illness. It’s an article about living with a name no-one can spell correctly. You see, my surname is Měchura and the second letter from the left is adorned with a diacritic called a caron. This diacritic is used a lot in Czech, the language [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=117&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why we need more linguistics in schools</title>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 02 Feb 2010 14:29:10 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Better life through grammar]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[conversational maxims]]></category>

		<guid isPermaLink="false">http://multikulti.wordpress.com/?p=106</guid>
		<description><![CDATA[The art of advertising is, at least to some extent, the art of deception, and language is the tool of that deception. Let me illustrate that with this label I found on the back of a cider bottle I bought recently. It says: The traditional type of cider press was called a rack &#38; cloth [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=106&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Why Wikipedia works but Wiktionary doesn’t</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2009/11/14/why-wikipedia-works-but-wiktionary-doesnt/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sat, 14 Nov 2009 18:28:55 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lexicography]]></category>
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		<description><![CDATA[It’s a truism to say that Wikipedia has been a resounding success. Not only does it have a large community of contributors but it also has an even larger community of readers: people who actually go to Wikipedia to get information. Wiktionary, on the other hand, has been more of an “unmitigated failure”, in the [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=103&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>On good dictionaries and bad</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2009/10/27/on-good-dictionaries-and-bad/</link>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 27 Oct 2009 15:12:34 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Lexicography]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[dictionaries]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[eLex]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I had the pleasure of attending the eLex (“electronic lexicography”) conference in Louvain-la-Neuve in Belgium earlier this month. As someone who works a lot with lexical databases, I was in my element at an event where everybody was talking about electronic dictionaries. One of the issues that was discussed a lot at the conference was [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=101&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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		<title>Where multilingualism doesn’t shine</title>
		<link>http://multikulti.wordpress.com/2009/10/04/where-multilingualism-doesnt-shine/</link>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 04 Oct 2009 19:55:22 +0000</pubDate>
		<dc:creator>Michal Boleslav Měchura</dc:creator>
				<category><![CDATA[Living with languages]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[multilingualism]]></category>
		<category><![CDATA[numbers]]></category>

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		<description><![CDATA[I know this is going to sound conceited but I fancy myself as a cool multilingual type who nimbly juggles three languages in his everyday life and has no difficulty expressing himself in either. But I must admit that even I seem to have areas in my brain where there’s only room for one language. [...]<img alt="" border="0" src="http://stats.wordpress.com/b.gif?host=multikulti.wordpress.com&amp;blog=8212589&amp;post=98&amp;subd=multikulti&amp;ref=&amp;feed=1" width="1" height="1" />]]></description>
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