Fluent In Hatstand
In an excerpt from the BBC documentary series One Pair Of Eyes from 1969, the late Sir Patrick Moore interviews a man who claims to be Jackie Healy-Rae able to speak and write three ‘space languages’.
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Brazilian Cáca Milis
Of this ‘Coconut Kiss’, Seamus Howard writes:
Brazilian dessert found in a Brazilian supermarket in Brussels. Ingredients in Irish and French only. I’m still baffled!
Learning Irish, 1967
The genuinely unusual Buntús Cainte .
From the book of the same name.
Anyone know what happened the scary Gaelbots presenters, Máire O’Neill and Aileen Geoghegan?
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Other People Complete Them
Declarations of love in loads of languages.
Sarah writes:
A Sweet Valentine’s video [viral) until the “Is gra liom ort”.
Rise Of The Zuckerverb
You know how ‘friend’ is a verb now?
Last week, as he paced around the stage at the f8 Developers Conference, Mark Zuckerberg declared with wide-eyed optimism that Facebook was “helping to define a brand-new language for how people connect.” “When we started,” Zuckerberg explained, “the vocabulary was really limited. You could only express a small number of things, like who you were friends with. Then last year, when we introduced the Open Graph, we added nouns, so you could like anything that you wanted.”
And then he delivered the breathless payoff: “This year, we’re adding verbs. We’re going to make it so you can connect to anything in any way you want.” It was all part of “building this language for how people connect,” he said.
Whoa! Language? Connect? Slow down there, Poindexter.
READ MORE: The Rise of the Zuckerverb: The New Language of Facebook (The Atlantic)
Mind Your Language
Kinetic typography animation of a Stephen Fry iTunes podgram by graphic artist Matt Rogers.
You may recall that Ceelo Green used the same device to slightly funkier effect back in August.
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