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SOPA & PIPA Blackout

SOPA and PIPA Blackout

SST and TA will be "down" today in sympathy.  pl

 

A tool for doing diacritical marks in Arabic

 
http://www.googlelabs.com/show_details?app_key=agtnbGFiczIwLXd3d3IVCxIMTGFic0FwcE1vZGVsGIronAEM

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Irish Langs

My father'sfamily came to America from County Meath just before The Famine, Oldcastle actually.  I have been told that the family persists in that part of the country.  In looking in the on-line Irish telecom phone book, I notice that there are a few Langs listed thereabout.  In particular I see that there is a Frederick Lang living in a village outside of Kells.  That was my grandfather's name.  Would anyone care to suggest a method for gtting e-mail addresses for any of these people?

I realize that I am opening the door to mischief in the form of twelve year old boys with a developed sense of gamesmanship.  Conmen and scamsters are everywhere.  I am not easily deceived.  pl

Happy New Year!

This is for the more intellectual, sensitive and artistic crowd here at the Athenaeum.  Pat

Arabic Verb and Noun Chart

My wife and I have been using this chart to teach Arabic Grammar ever since we were given it by a great teacher, a Tunisian gentlemen at our graduate school.   The chart reflects the codification of Arabic grammar by Persian scholars in the first couple of centuries of Islam.  Enjoy.  pl

Download faalachart.pdf

Notice of Public Appearance

I am going to give a talk at VMI on the value of foreign langiage study.  This is a picture of Raleigh Colston who was variously a professor of French at VMI a brigadier general in the Confederate Army and a colonel of topographical enngineers in the Egyptian Army of the Khedive Ismail. pl

Download Language4.pdf