Ever needed to find a proper, scientific name for a class of critters, such as “bovine” for cows or “lupine” for wolves? Here’s a great list of animal adjective forms that covers much of this ground, provided it ends in -ian or -ine. This kind of stuff makes the language geek in me smile.
via Steve [...]
I’d heard about the efforts of experts to develop markings that would keep people out of radioactive waste disposal sites for the 10,000 years that they will remain dangerous, but until now, I hadn’t read any of the experts’ findings. Excerpts from ‘Expert Judgement on Markers to Deter Inadvertent Human Intrusion into the Waste Isolation [...]
I ran across a phrase I’d never heard before this morning: “on a hiding to nothing”. A quick Google search later, and I ran across a definition from Dave Wilton at his site, Wordorigins.org:
The phrase dates to 1905 and is apparently from horse racing.
The phrase is used in situations where one is expected to win, [...]
While following a few links from Slashdot, I ran across an Introduction to i18n, which contains some freakish abbreviations:
i18n internationalization, or support for English and one other language
l10n localization, or support for many languages, but only support for English and one other, specific language at the same time
m17n multilingualization, or support for many languages at [...]
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