Language

I’m a grammar geek (Finnish at least) and I enjoy nitpicking things. I also enjoy English and learning other languages. Through the years I’ve got acquainted with English, Swedish, German, Spanish, and Persian. And, Finnish is my mother tongue.

Abuser name

:: Monday, Mar 26th 2007 @ 23:08 :: Computer & Gadgets, Quote of the Day ::

Login failed. Most likely you entered your abuser name or your password.

Dear English-speaking reader. (…)

Translator’s amnesia

:: Monday, Dec 4th 2006 @ 23:11 :: Language, Mobile phones ::

I’m waiting for an email from the library so I changed the address in my library information to my mobile email. (…)

Firefox the Nitpicker

:: Saturday, Oct 28th 2006 @ 20:11 :: Computer & Gadgets, Language ::

Last night I installed the newest version of Firefox (2.0) and just now I noticed that it checks spelling in form fields!
What a wonderful feature! (…)

Recycling UI strings is bad

:: Wednesday, Oct 4th 2006 @ 21:05 :: Computer & Gadgets, Language, Work ::

I work in localisation among other areas of translation and I know it’s very tempting to re-use texts that one might think are “the same”. (…)

Wax in my grammar ear - or someone else’s?

:: Friday, Sep 8th 2006 @ 22:26 :: Language ::

Suddenly this started to bother me a lot. I surf to WordPress.com and on the front page it says: “Why Blog? All the cool kids are.”
That doesn’t make sense, does it? (…)

I just don’t have anything to say right now

:: Monday, Aug 21st 2006 @ 19:07 :: Quote of the Day, Web design & Coding ::

I had received the following spam comment which was sort of refreshing after the “Hi Jane! (…)

Misfirings in the brain

:: Sunday, Aug 13th 2006 @ 19:48 :: (Odd) people, Language ::

Chatting with Vera, I noticed I misspelled all the time. I wrote “where I you flying on Tuesday?” without noticing it. (…)

Grammar terrorists

:: Friday, Mar 17th 2006 @ 18:44 :: Language ::

At Jafer’s there’ve been discussions on grammar and grasp of language (and lack there of). I’m so glad someone else is similarly enthusiastic about these things. (…)

My id (Inner Despot)

:: Sunday, Feb 26th 2006 @ 18:51 :: Thoughts, Word of the Day, Work ::

After having been a project manager for a week now I’ve started to get annoyed by the technical people. (…)

Why I love PCs

:: Tuesday, Nov 8th 2005 @ 21:53 :: Quote of the Day, Smile of the Day ::

Now, this is why I stick to PCs:

[Ctrl Alt Del]
I recommend reading all of Ctrl+Alt+Del. The comics are wonderfully geeky.