Language

General

See also Mind#Language, Mind#Semiotics

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• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_speech

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Language
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origin_of_language

• http://www.fun-with-words.com

• http://blog.nabeelqu.com/post/33557680375/surprisingly-undervalued-books

Blogs

• http://languagelog.ldc.upenn.edu/nll/

• http://elms.wordpress.com/

Languages

English

• http://www.tfd.com/
• http://www.etymonline.com/
• http://www.kokogiak.com/logolepsy/
• http://splasho.com/upgoer5/
  • http://tenhundredwordsofscience.tumblr.com/
• http://www.wordsforthat.com/

• http://oxforddictionaries.com/words/what-word-contains-the-five-vowels-a-e-i-o-u-in-the-right-order

• http://edl.byu.edu/lexicon

• http://alt-usage-english.org/

• http://jsomers.net/blog/dictionary [1]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plain_English
• http://www.plainenglish.co.uk/
• http://odi.dwp.gov.uk/inclusive-communications/channels/clear-english.php

• http://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/11/pronunciation-errors-english-language
• http://public.wsu.edu/~brians/errors/

• http://www.dialectsarchive.com/
• http://accent.gmu.edu/ [2]

Slang

• http://www.urbandictionary.com/

• http://home.earthlink.net/~dlarkins/slang-pg.htm
• http://local.aaca.org/bntc/slang/slang.htm
• http://www.odps.org/glossword/index.php

Translation

• BabelFish.org is a fish that translates speech from one language to another.

• EUdict is a collection of online dictionaries for the languages spoken mostly in the European Community. These dictionaries are the result of the work of many authors who worked very hard and finally offered their product free of charge on the internet thus making it easier to all of us to communicate with each other.
• dict.cc is not only an online dictionary. It's an attempt to create a platform where users from all over the world can share their knowledge in the field of translations. Every visitor can suggest new translations and correct or confirm other users' suggestions.

• Linguee - Dictionary and search engine for 100 million translations.

• http://www.dsl.ac.uk/dsl/index.html - scots

• http://rut.org/cgi-bin/j-e/dict - japanese

• http://www.translation-guide.com/free_online_translators.php?from=Latin&to=English
• http://www.latinphrasetranslation.com/translators/latin_to_english

• http://www.paulmeier.com/ipacharts/

Other

• http://www.meta-net.eu/

• http://babadum.com/

• http://www.xibalba.demon.co.uk/jbr/ranto/

• http://www.newyorker.com/magazine/2012/12/24/utopian-for-beginners [3]

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8192474

• http://mycommunityrights.org.uk/community-right-to-bid/

Numbers

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/English_numerals
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ordinal_indicator - nd, rd, th, etc.

Other

• https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gG62zay3kck

• http://www.arlt.co.uk/songs.html

Writing

• https://owl.english.purdue.edu/owl/

• http://nathanbarry.com/step-by-step-landing-page-copywriting/
• http://asserttrue.blogspot.co.uk/2013/01/how-to-write-opening-sentence.html [4]

• http://learning.blogs.nytimes.com/2012/09/20/writing-rules-advice-from-the-new-york-times-on-writing-well/

• http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/29/books/review/colson-whiteheads-rules-for-writing.html
• http://www.scoop.it/t/story-and-narrative
• http://aerogrammestudio.com/2013/03/07/pixars-22-rules-of-storytelling/

• http://joel.is/post/32338258448/5-realisations-that-helped-me-write-regularly

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brandon_Sanderson#Sanderson.27s_Laws

• http://www.tc.umn.edu/~jewel001/CollegeWriting/home.htm

Literature

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literature

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poetics

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Communication_design

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_writing

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_criticism
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Literary_theory

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Formalism_(literature)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comparative_literature

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Modernist_literature
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Postmodernist_literature

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Creative_nonfiction - a genre of writing that uses literary styles and techniques to create factually accurate narratives. Creative nonfiction contrasts with other nonfiction, such as technical writing or journalism, which is also rooted in accurate fact, but is not primarily written in service to its craft. Forms within this genre include biography, autobiography, memoir, diary, travel writing, food writing, literary journalism, chronicle, personal essays and other hybridized essays.

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metafiction

• http://instruct.westvalley.edu/lafave/DFW_present_tense.html
• http://techcrunch.com/2014/01/11/such-dfw-very-orwell-so-doge-wow/

• http://www.locusmag.com/Perspectives/2014/01/cory-doctorow-cheap-writing-tricks/

• http://designthroughstorytelling.net/periodic/

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Auguries_of_Innocence

Journalism

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Journalism

• http://www.newsdiffs.org/

• http://www.nytimes.com/2013/10/28/opinion/a-conversation-in-lieu-of-a-column.html

Format

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Report
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/M%C3%A9moire
• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monograph
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthology

• http://nossidge.tumblr.com/post/46605163160/i-am-the-path-along-unseen-heather-snowball

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outline_(list)

• http://tosbourn.com/2013/12/other/case-writing-unit-tests-blog-posts/ [5]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Enjambment

Page elements

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Byline

Press release

• http://www.mediacollege.com/journalism/press-release/format.html [6]
• http://www.rocknrollbride.com/2012/04/how-to-write-a-press-release-that-will-actually-get-you-featured-a-guest-post-by-debbie-carlisle/

Proposal

• http://www.slideshare.net/ShantiramDahal/detailed-outline-of-research-proposal

Style

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Writing_style
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylometry
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stylistics_(literature)

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Style_guide
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Manual_of_Style

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Elements_of_Style
• http://www.crockford.com/wrrrld/style.html

• http://scribemeetsworld.com/

• http://nitpickertool.com/

Lyrics

• http://rappad.co/

• http://rapbot.jit.su/

• http://www.rhymezone.com/

Publishing

• http://www.smashwords.com/

• https://hackpad.com/Everything-I-Know-about-Self-Publishing-d4zCU7alhJX

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=6052075

• https://www.petekeen.net/adventures-in-self-publishing

• http://www.nytimes.com/2014/09/01/business/media/mental-floss-is-buoyed-by-online-video.html [7]

Reading

• http://www.magicscroll.net/

• http://www.eyercize.com/

• http://ankisrs.net/

• http://spreeder.com/

• OpenSpritz is an extremely crude implementation of Spritz in JavaScript. It works as a bookmarklet to add Spritz-type speed reading to every page. good

• Squirt - Speed read the web, one word at a time [8]

• http://www.zolmeister.com/2014/03/zethos-35-million-in-1kb.html [9]

• http://ds300.github.io/jetzt/
  • http://ds300.github.io/jetzt/ - test page

• https://github.com/luisivan/spritzer

• http://lively-web.org/users/robertkrahn/speedread.html

• Spree - Chrome extension
  • https://github.com/wpears/spree

• spread0r should run on all platforms supporting perl and gtk2-perl.

• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?AlanKaysReadingList

Software and services

• https://groups.google.com/forum/#!forum/versioned-writing

• https://www.wakati.me/

Vim

See Vim

Notepads

Often zen like.

• http://www.zenpen.io/
  • https://github.com/tholman/zenpen
• http://quraysoft.com/
• http://www.quietwrite.com/#new
• https://draftin.com/
• http://litewrite.net/
  • https://github.com/litewrite/litewrite
• http://throwww.com/
• http://a5.gg/
• http://pencil.asleepysamurai.com/
• https://www.jottit.com/ - zen-ish
• http://solitarydesigns.net/write/
  • https://github.com/kushsolitary/Write
• http://www.nimblenot.es/
• http://gun.io/w
• http://hallojs.org/
• http://notepad.cc/
  • by http://jacobbijani.com/
• https://draftin.com/
  • https://chrome.google.com/webstore/detail/draft/amlbbbgcijmiooecobhkjblcdkjldmdk
• http://www.writeboxapps.com/
• http://littleoutliner.com/
• http://inkpen.in/edit/documentation
• http://hastebin.com/
• https://drive.google.com/keep

• https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=5135194

• https://wri.pe/

• http://collabedit.com/

• https://paste.sh/about - locally saved, encrypted

• http://coedit.me/ - code highlighting, vim/emacs

• http://www.penflip.com/
  • http://madebyloren.com/github-for-writers

TextMate

• http://wiki.macromates.com/Main/Plugins

• http://blog.macromates.com/2012/textmate-2-at-github/
• https://github.com/textmate/textmate

SublimeText

• http://www.sublimetext.com/
  • http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sublime_Text

• https://github.com/sokolovstas/SublimeWebInspector

Other

See also WebDev#Authoring

• http://www.trelby.org/ - screenwriting

• http://dictator.kieranholland.com/dictator.html - reading (rapid serial)

• http://tools.suckless.org/sandy - very minimal

• http://www.wordnik.com/

• https://gingkoapp.com/p/future-of-text/ - tree structure [10]

• http://elifesciences.github.io/lens/
  • https://github.com/elifesciences/lens

• https://github.com/quarnster/lime [11]

• http://dillinger.io/ - markdown
• http://socrates.io/
• https://stackedit.io/

• http://writer.pro/ - nice ui
  • http://www.candlerblog.com/2013/12/23/no-thanks-ia/ [12]

• https://www.jottit.com/ - wiki like

• https://authorea.com - collaborative platform for research. Write and manage your technical documents in one place. web native, uses Git. write in LaTeX, Markdown, HTML, Javascript, and/or more.

• https://draftin.com/

• https://github.com/slap-editor/slap [13]

• http://pastebay.com/

Other

Smiley

• https://openlibrary.org/

• http://www.metafilter.com/132059/How-to-Write

• http://demo.innovationaccelerator.com/

• http://filer.case.edu/dts8/thelastq.htm
• http://www.thrivenotes.com/the-last-answer/

• http://infinitemonkeys.fuzzie.sg/

• http://hpmor.com/

• http://www.skyhunter.com/marcs/GentleSeduction.html

• https://www.kuro5hin.org/story/2002/12/21/17846/757

• http://lightspeedmagazine.kinja.com/

• http://acharya.iitm.ac.in/sanskrit/why_sans.php

• http://www.marlborotech.com/Zalgo.html

• http://greatlanguagegame.com/

• http://www.wordle.net/

• http://www.lrb.co.uk/blog/2013/10/16/yasmine-seale/q-v-k/ [14]

Dead tree

• JamBook: The world’s thinnest, lightest notebook. Ever.

Fiction

• http://www-users.cs.york.ac.uk/susan/sf/index.htm

• http://hieroglyph.asu.edu/

• http://futurismic.com/

• http://archiveofourown.org/

• http://ficly.com/stories

• http://365tomorrows.com/

• http://futuretimeline.net/index.htm

• http://www.technovelgy.com/

• http://www.aeonmagazine.com/world-views/can-the-multiverse-explain-the-course-of-history/

• http://lesswrong.com/lw/ihr/september_2013_media_thread/9rr5

• http://openfolklore.org/

• http://www.infinityplus.co.uk/stories/under.htm?2

• http://www.galactanet.com/oneoff/theegg_mod.html

• http://qntm.org/responsibility

• http://slatestarcodex.com/2014/04/03/the-study-of-anglophysics/

• http://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2014/09/12/the-future-according-to-stanislaw-lem/

• http://nautil.us/issue/15/turbulence/an-astrobiologist-asks-a-sci_fi-novelist-how-to-survive-the-anthropocene [15]

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walt_Whitman

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Octavia_E._Butler

• http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Mind_Parasites

Naming conventions

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/CamelCase
• http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?CamelCase
• http://communitywiki.org/en/LinkLanguage