Language Nerd, Spanish and French were once both dialects of Latin, but now they’re different languages… when did they switch from 2 dialects of one language to 2 languages? *** Dear mysterious anonymous person, When Spanish and French people stopped being able to understand each other. Since I’ve been calling myself the Language Nerd for […]
Hey Lang Nerd! (BTW I loved the post about the NATO Phonetic Alphabet) Is it easier to develop a text-to-speech application for Chinese, rather than other languages, because the tones are already built into the words? Like, wouldn’t that mean that the program doesn’t have to enforce sort of a global tone to the sentence, […]