Simon Willison’s Weblog

A History of the Sentence “Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo.”. Complete with explorations of the grammar in Lisp.

# 5th February 2010, 9:50 am / buffalo, english, grammar, lisp

He/She/They: Grammar and Facebook. Facebook are going to start requiring gender information because foreign language translations wind up being too confusing when that information is not available. Aside: I wish they’d implement proper title elements on their blog posts.

# 27th June 2008, 9:06 am / facebook, gender, grammar, i18n, l10n, usability