Category: World Languages and I.T
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Learning Journal for WL4102
In my final post for this semester, I would like to reflect on my learning over the course of the module. Coming into the module, while I was familiar with a lot of linguistic concepts, I admittedly knew very little about information technologies. The extent of my knowledge regarding the intricacies of I.T. (besides general…
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✥﹤┈ Blog Essay- A multilingual world and its plurilingual population. ┈﹥✥
The online world is populated by users of many different linguistic backgrounds and practices. This blog essay will begin to explore the multiplicity of languages online, the popularity of languages online and the technological linguistic issues faced by developers of multilingual websites, as well as briefly covering and exploring some solutions to these challenges. To begin…
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Second Blog Essay: The Use of Emoticons in Online Language and Communications ໒(⊙ᴗ⊙)७✎▤
An emoticon is a collection of glyphs and characters that can be interpreted as a comprehensible image to the human eye once presented together in a certain order. It is not to be confused as an emoji- the two are distinctly different. I will begin by explaining what an emoji is and why it is…
