Alex DelPriore

✧ librarian ✧ information scientist ✧ language technologist ✧ text mechanic ✧ 日本語・中文OK ✧ 古今東西 ✧

[Chris Beiser @ctbeiser]

@vgr Not my find, but—the entire country of Sweden woke up to the app being in “swedish chef english.”

Turned out that loc used this script to test that the strings were localizable, and it had accidentally overwritten the Swedish translation.

[Nicholas Rougeux @rougeux]

I recreated Werner's Nomenclature of Colours by P. Syme from 1821 with original scans of painted swatches plus new example photos, cross references, and two new posters. Enjoy! https://t.co/NRpqKHT8Em

[Project Gutenberg @gutenberg_org]

The Boston Public Library is digitizing & putting online 200,000+ Vintage Records
Already available @internetarchive now: https://t.co/gy8eIKEPOC via @openculture

[Incunabula @incunabula]

There were reports from Rio in the Brazilian press earlier this year on the shockingly poor maintenance and state of the repair of the Museu Nacional. This is the expenditure on the museum for the years 2013 to April 2018 - in thousands, not millions.

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

there really should be a better term for data about metadata... "metametadata" and the more general "administrative metadata" are both awkward and tedious to say repeatedly.
My proposal: ~ultradata~

[竹澤雅文(拾萬字鏡) @JUMANJIKYO]

咳払いするときの感動詞「エヘン」の江戸時代の当て字(『書言字考節用集(1717年)』)。『文明本節用集(1474年頃)』には「噚(エヘン)」とある。

[Charlotte Hoare @ManMedProject]

Definite contender for most exclamation marks I've put in a catalogue record ‼️❕❗️ #!!! #ManMedProject

[Ruth Mostern @rmostern.bsky.social @RuthMostern]

These are "cat contracts" from a commercially printed Yuan dynasty divination manual. According to Kaiqi Hua, they are talismans or spiritual souvenirs. So great!

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

“When asked why he has kept using his old typewriter, Talih replies that computers are merely another way of writing, not a source of reliable information. … ‘The computer can only give the form, but people don’t know what to write.’” https://t.co/C8V0Hu4t4J

[Atlas Obscura @atlasobscura]

An understanding of Turkish legalese is vital to Hayrettin Talih’s work as a public scribe, or arzuhalci, a profession he entered almost 50 years ago. Now, he is one of the last of his kind. https://t.co/876FLkHg3M

[Damien Kempf @DamienKempf]

When my cat decides it is time for me to wake up
[BL, Harley 6563]

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

"Teach your children that technology is not just a tool of consumption, but a tool of creation" —@hunterwalk https://t.co/DcDZIAaqjl

[The Bold Italic @thebolditalic]

Our latest episode of 'This is Your Life in Silicon Valley' features former Youtube Head of Product @hunterwalk - we get his take on the infamous 'Damore memo' and other topics. Worth a listen on your ride home! https://t.co/uooEhKcINv

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

Zed, Zee or Izzard? https://t.co/C7UhII2PmA
Never encountered this before, but clearly for me it's gotta be "izzard" from here on!

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

what enlightened mind can solve this orthographic mystery for the ages? @cosmicore @ken_lunde @languagelog ??

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

The best partial explanation (https://t.co/1AxaP24PqP) looks to be that おぞだこ is a horrifically corrupted 「おいしい」... but what about the rest of it?

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

This apparently appears on several products by this company, with a variant 「おぞだこ味ぢさす」 https://t.co/QdfGoP2xnB

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

My first instinct was a JISかな入力 mixup, but converting to QWERTY doesn't seem to correspond to anything (6C[Q[B A[XR)

[Alex DelPriore @adlpr]

Was just trying to have a snack when this linguistic enigma stopped me in my tracks..

「真心込めてつくりました」 seems fine, but what in the world is 「おぞだこぢさす」??

[History of Astronomy @HistAstro]

Terrestrial within a celestial pocket globe, made by William Palmer & John Newton, London, 1783 @RMGreenwich https://t.co/ZT9SkdiKAU