català
The tower of Babel
The Castella school, in the Raval district of Barcelona, is an authentic Tower of Babel: in a class of 25 students we can find a dozen nationalities and around ten languages. But this linguistic diversity seems small when we expand the scale of observation. In Catalonia there are inventoried more than 300 different languages, and […]
Designing the Catalan keyboard
The program Quèquicom proposes to the linguistic engineer Lluís de Yzaguirre from the UPF, and to the member of Softcatalà Joan Montané, the design of a new keyboard adapted to the Catalan language. With this new keyboard would be possible to write faster and reduce injuries to hands and wrists. The QWERTY keyboard finally has […]
Detectives of the words
The handwriting is personal and difficult to imitate, calligraphers are able to authenticate it. Although we do not write by hand, the trail of our texts can be followed, thanks to its linguistic structure. We speak and write in a particular way, so the fakes and plagiarisms can be discovered. The ancient texts, copied several […]