Alex around the World

By looking at the error message that was generated by Amazon when I was updating my contact info, I had the feeling that the website did not like the name of my country. In fact, this is an example of the details you need to pay attention to when you are managing a multilingual website, [...]

Remember my last post about me dreaming about the new MacBook Pro? It contained a word (in fact 2) that may seem a bit strange to some readers. I thought it could be a good idea to describe it in more details, specially since Wikipedia has a quite complete entry for this concept: Computational linguistics [...]

This week’s word I have selected is mnemonic or mnemonic techniques. Read my related post or what Wikipedia says about it: Mnemonics are often verbal, something such as a very short poem or a special word used to help a person remember something. They are often used to remember lists. Mnemonics rely not only on [...]

How many times are you asked for a login name and password in a day? How many Personal Identification Numbers (PIN), door codes, digicodes, IDs do you have? How many of these do you remember each and every time?As far as I’m concerned, I havePersonal Identification Number (PIN) for: my mobile; my e-banking account; my [...]

Here’s the word of the week: multilingualism, courtesy of Wikipedia community: A multilingual person is, in the broadest definition of multilingualism, anyone with communicative skills in more than one language, be it active or passive. More specifically, the terms bilingual and trilingual are used to describe comparable situations in which two or three languages are [...]