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In a May 18, 2010 lawsuit with Apple Inc., Sony Corporation of America, Rhapsody International Inc., Napster LLC and others, Sharing Sound LLC alleged that the named defendants infringed Sharing Sound LLC’s patent on distributing musical products by a web site vendor over the internet. M·CAM analytics have identified other documents in the innovation space that may contain critical elements of enabling technologies that predate key aspects of the innovations described in the claims of the Sharing Sound patent. These documents include innovations both precedent to and concurrent with the highlighted Sharing Sound patent, samples of which are included in the tables below. Please note that the assignee shown is the assignee to which the patent was originally granted.
Apostrophes used incorrectly to form plurals are known as greengrocers' apostrophes (or grocers' apostrophes, or sometimes humorously greengrocers apostrophe's). The practice comes from the identical sound of the plural and possessive forms of most English nouns. It is often considered a form of hypercorrection coming from a widespread ignorance of the proper use of the apostrophe or of punctuation in general.
Mojibake (文字化け ?, pronounced /mod͜ʑibake/) is the happenstance of incorrect, unreadable characters shown when computer software fails to render a text correctly according to its associated character encoding.
The basic sources of this work are Weekley's "An Etymological Dictionary of Modern English," Klein's "A Comprehensive Etymological Dictionary of the English Language," "Oxford English Dictionary" (second edition), "Barnhart Dictionary of Etymology," Holthauzen's "Etymologisches Wörterbuch der Englischen Sprache," Ayto's "20th Century Words," and Chapman's "Dictionary of American Slang." [Anyone know a better guide?]
Barack Obama’s inaugural address is proving to be more powerful in the reading than it was in the hearing.
so close to garbage, so far from language.
I’m a Macintosh a guy and so Spotlight helps me a lot. I just get on Spotlight and say, let's see, if I say "asshole” and “minister," I then can find what I want find.
Diner Lingo is a kind of verbal shorthand used by cooks and chefs in diners and diner-style restaurants, as well as waffle houses.
Review all the options, and choose the one that best expresses your meaning.
The hypothesis postulates that a particular language's nature influences the habitual thought of its speakers.
Roses appear red; Violets seem blue. Honey tastes sweet, And you elicit love.
ProVoc is a free and easy-to-use vocabulary trainer.
Welcome to Michigan State University's ASL Browser web site, an online American Sign Language (ASL) browser where you can look up video of thousands of ASL signs and learn interesting things about them.
- the home for language courses developed by the Foreign Service Institute. These courses were developed by the United States government and are in the public domain.
Even though most Japanese consider them to be green, the word ao is still used to describe certain vegetables, apples and vegetation. Ao is also the name for the color of a traffic light, "green" in English.
Her goal was to make English grammar as user-friendly and as easily applicable as possible without having to explain it through the use of expansive grammatical terminology.
As many readers of this page will know, I have an on-going interest in Japan, its people and language. I have assembled this set of pages: (a) to provide information about a number of my projects in the area of Japanese computing and dictionaries, (b) to