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Tumblelog byChristopher Clay, founder of Soup.io.
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Heftling (2012?)
Luminous Flux (2012–) ♥
Mixtapes (2011)
27 (2010) ♥Team Armin Soyka (2010)
26 (2009) ♥
Startupwiki (2009–)
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
LIF (2008)
Soup (2007–) ♥
Netznetz (2007–2008)
Metalab (2006–) ♥
CanvasPaint (2006)
Design portfolio (2005)
Textcounter.org (2003)
PS: If I write about events, that's cause I'm inviting you to come along. Get in touch!
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October 25 2011
“ As with music and painting, we use language to express what we are not able to say. ”— Michèle Cooke
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April 22 2010
March 12 2010
A sentence written in Lovers
Communication System, a pictogram system developed by Yukio Ota, who also drew the original "running man" emergency exit icon.
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January 06 2010
“ Most fascinating is a feature that would make any journalist tremble. Tuyuca requires verb-endings on statements to show how the speaker knows something. Diga ape-wi means that “the boy played soccer (I know because I saw him)”, while diga ape-hiyi means “the boy played soccer (I assume)”. English can provide such information, but for Tuyuca that is an obligatory ending on the verb. Evidential languages force speakers to think hard about how they learned what they say they know. ”— What Is the Most Complex Language in the World? – Neatorama
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hairinmyJanuary 02 2010
“ !Xóõ, spoken by just a few thousand, mostly in Botswana, has a blistering array of unusual sounds. Its vowels include plain, pharyngealised, strident and breathy, and they carry four tones. It has five basic clicks and 17 accompanying ones. The leading expert on the !Xóõ, Tony Traill, developed a lump on his larynx from learning to make their sounds. Further research showed that adult !Xóõ-speakers had the same lump (children had not developed it yet). ”— Economist.com: In search of the world's hardest language
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November 04 2009
April 10 2009
“ Obzwar diese sich auf keine Gespräche eingelassen haben, befürchten sie nun, die räumliche Nähe könnte Josef F. in seinen Versuchen bestärken, mit ihnen Kontakt aufzunehmen. ”— Ein mir neues, anscheinend veraltetes, aber nach reiflicher Überlegung doch sympathisches Wort via DiePresse.com
January 06 2009
E-Prime - Wikipedia
"a modified English syntax and vocabulary lacking all forms of the verb to be ... [making] it harder for a writer or reader to confuse statements of opinion with statements of fact."
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