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Ahmadinejad tells government not to use Western terms in Persian

Uh, right, good luck with that.

I’m going to start posting “language news” posts here on Infundibulum. It’s something I find myself wanting to blog about a lot, and my opinions on it are prehaps a bit too opinionated to put up on the Blogamundo developer blog, so I figured I would bring them here.

I actually experimented for a bit on Blogspot here: Language News, and I found plenty of content. As a matter of fact, I’m going to import those posts here right now, so, here comes the onslaught.

Here’s the description from that temporary blog:

I post briefly about language stuff: language death, language revival, and language policy, especially. Suggestions welcome at pathall at gmail.

Offer still stands — suggestions welcome.

If you’d like to subscribe to this category exclusively in your feed reader (if, say, you’re not interested in my Javascript stuff or random blatherings), then you can do so at:

http://ruphus.com/blog/category/LanguageNews/feed/

Or:

http://ruphus.com/blog/category/LanguageNews/atom/

If you prefer Atom.

icWales - Assembly to dump Welsh

What?

Google admits that they failed to promote for-sale shows on their video site clearly enough, but they don’t say anything about getting in bed with Chinese government censorship.

Lame.

“Send them home.”

Peru’s Battle for Its History

A funny article from Hetq Online: Welcome to Armenia, Americano.

It tells the tale of an American Peace Corps volunteer’s first day in Armenia.

Also, what to call the electric thing you stick in a bucket of water to heat it up. (A kipyatilnik, of course.)

Good to know!

Feed Icons - Help establish the new standard

Hmm yeah, good idea. So is this supposed to apply to Atom as well?

Oh, and am I a geek yet that I should be thinking about this stuff instead of like… being Christmassy?

Icons are good presents, methinks.

Holly hippodays!

Editing WordPress posts in Performancing | Performancing.com

Testing Performancing… seems pretty neat. The account setup wizard was quite easy.

Ooops, I broke my own rule — I forgot to test Performancing with non-Ascii text.

• こんにちは 世界! Japanese
• Καλημέρα κόσμε! Greek
• สวัสดีราคาถูก! Thai
• ሠላም ዓለም! Amharic

That should do it.
Looks ok. But the markup that comes out of Performancing on the other side of Wordpress is kind of icky… not sure whose fault that is.

I’ve noticed a rather annoying trend on link aggregation sites like del.icio.us and digg.

Lists.

I mean, good grief, look at the top ten on del.icio.us/popular?new:

• Trabajadores del conocimiento: las 10 reglas de oro de Google
• 11 Techniques to Increase Page Views on Your Blog: Blog Tips at ProBlogger
• lifehack.org » 6 Reasons on Why are You Procrastinating
• Top 10 Tips for Great Pictures
• Win XP 20 things you do not know - Windows Tips ‘n’ Tweaks
• 20 ways to Secure your Apache Configuration

Digg too:

• Ten things I hate about the Xbox 360 - Fully Equipped - CNET reviews

I don’t know why those bug me… something sort of sound-bitish, I guess.

Neat: Odeo: BBC’s Documentary Archive . There are like 50-something of them.

Just started listening to this one, about my favorite tiny South American country where everyone speaks Spanish:
Odeo: Brazil: The Gentle Giant Awakes

*ducks*