Was recently affected by the Cupertino effect: “bounce of ranging monkeys” instead of “bunch of raging monkeys” and “historical impotence” in place of “historical importance”.
One of my previous new year resolutions was to improve my grammar and interpunctuation skills, wished by some teachers that dreaded my long, dwindling (learn to use the comma!?), rambling (or any of its brothers and sisters), rants as sentences. I’m a strong believer in if you’re going to do something do it as good as you possibly can; why I decided to in return become tyrannical in matters towards people that I believe should know better, be it grammatical or typographical.
So I guess I’m one of the few students to have turned in an English test with the words: “I found two typographical errors, I marked them up for you.”
Here’s an idea I’ve been entertaining for some time now and that I would like to see realized: A word navigator. I know that in the field of computational linguistics there’s several implementation of this kind for different areas of our syntactic, lexicographic and semantic network of knowledge for our understanding of language. But what I imagine is a practical application for everyday life and work.
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I have made my swedish translation for Sandbox available as sv_SE.po and sv_SE.mo. You only need the later unless you intend to modify the translation.
Even if you are using english as standard on your blog, you can still benefit from gettext to modify some wordings without changing any of the template files. For the purpose of demonstration I’ve uploaded the en_US.po and en_US.mo I’m using on this very blog as examples.
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I’ve done a translation of the Sandbox theme for my swedish section of the site using the GNU gettext tools. It’s pretty simple.
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