random things

Useful/interesting books:

The Story of Language by Mario Pei
anything by Noam Chomsky
Complete Works of William Shakespeare
The Demon-Haunted World by Carl Sagan (also Cosmos)
Integrated Korean series, published by University of Hawai'i Press

For other major world languages, see Barron's Educational Press (http://www.barronseduc.com) for selections.

For Cubs fans: Wrigleyville: A Magical History Tour by Peter Golenbock is informative.

Good night everyone.

typing Korean on a U.S. English keyboard

If you have the computer set so that Korean is in the language bar, here are the key correspondences (the first of each pair is lower case, the other uppercase- using 'Shift'):

`1234567890-=
qwertyuiop[]asdfghjkl;’
zxcvbnm,./

~!@#$%^&*()_+
QWERTYUIOP{}
ASDFGHJKL:”
ZXCVBNM<>?

`1234567890-=
ㅂㅈㄷㄱㅅㅛㅕㅑㅐㅔ[]ㅁㄴㅇㄹㅎㅗㅓㅏㅣ;’
ㅋㅌㅊㅍㅠㅜㅡ,./

~!@#$%^&*()_+
ㅃㅉㄸㄲㅆㅛㅕㅑㅒㅖ{}
ㅁㄴㅇㄹㅎㅗㅓㅏㅣ:”
ㅋㅌㅊㅍㅠㅜㅡ<>?

Until later,

~에이미

linguistics links

Here are some linguistics links, care of my instructors here at UIUC:

http://www.newscientist.com/article.ns?id=dn6303
http://www-psych.stanford.edu/~lera/links.html
http://www.humnet.ucla.edu/humnet/linguistics/people/schuh/lx001/Dichotic/dichotic.html
http://news.nationalgeographic.com/news/2001/10/1004_TVlanguagegene.html
http://www.newhorizons.org/neuro/kotulak.htm
http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/education/4883418.stm
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/course/chapter1/chapter1.html
http://hctv.humnet.ucla.edu/departments/linguistics/VowelsandConsonants/vowels/chapter13/chapter13.html
http://www.chass.utoronto.ca/~danhall/phonetics/sammy.html

Some of these are fun to play with (especially Sammy the sagittal section), others are actually very surprising (the dichotic listening test, for one)... and the IPA chart always comes in handy :-D

Until later,

에이미

more useful stuff, I hope

For all you aspiring mathematicians/scientists/Greek classicists/Greek language-learners, I present: the Greek alphabet, in all its glory. While you'll have a way to go before you can honestly stop saying "It's all Greek to me", I intend to give you a leg up, so here goes:

Α α alpha
Β β beta
Γ γ gamma
Δ δ delta
Ε ε epsilon
Ζ ζ zeta
Η η eta
Θ θ theta
Ι ι iota
Κ κ kappa
Λ λ lamda
Μ μ mi
Ν ν ni
Ξ ξ xi
Ο ο omicron
Π π pi
Ρ ρ rho
Σ σ, ς sigma
Τ τ taf
Υ υ ipsilon
Φ φ phi
Χ χ chi
Ψ ψ psi
Ω ω omega

If you're familiar with the IPA, then to learn the pronunciation, check out http://home.unilang.org/main/wiki2/index.php/Greek_alphabet

안녕!

language aids (?)

So I found my card that has all the ASCII codes for European-language characters to be displayed using a U.S. English keyboard. Hope these help...

For all characters, press and hold "ALT" while typing the numbers in the numeric keypad on the right of the keyboard (make sure that "Num Lock" is on):

à=133
â=131
ä=132
Ä=142
á=160
æ=145
Æ=146
å=134
Å=143
ª=166
ç=135
ñ=164
Ñ=165
¿=168
¡=173
~=126
é=130
è=138
É=144
ê=136
ë=137
Ö=153
œ=0156
ô=147
ö=148
ó=162
ò=149
ï=139
î=140
ì=141
í=161
Ü=154
ü=129
û=150
ù=151
ú=163
Ç=128

If these help, great. If not... well, at least I know where to look for these next time :-D

random craziness

안녕? I've been really busy lately, looking for a job and trying to find apartments. Still no job yet, but hopefully that'll change soon before I get too broke. Time to register for summer and fall classes, so we'll see how that goes. I've tried not to "fall off the face of the planet", as some of my friends would say, but it's been tricky.

Link of the day:

http://www.ethnologue.com

Knock yourself out with this and I'll return as soon as I get things straightened out.

~에이미