I met Carmen in the first days of hi5.com, 5 years ago. We changed y!m ids, talked a lot about our continents, our countries, the differences between our cultures and especially about the music we loved. Then we took a 4 years break (don’t exactly know what happened to her, but I suspect she learned a lot to become a lawyer, and also got into a steady relationship with some dude which she’ll marry the next year). Anyway, she came back on yahoo messenger this year, and she told me about of interesting things about Lima, the clubs, the beach, the music, the people and so on. She also hates chileans because they kicked peruvian ass during the last war between the two countries. She talks to me in spanglish (indeed, Einstein, english mixed with a few spanish words) and she kinda forgot to translate the text into English. To my surprise, they don’t listen to dnb in Peru. There’s a single dnb pub in Lima. Yep, I asked her to write an article for my readers, and this is what she came up with:
marți, 22 iulie 2008
Straight from Lima, Perú
PERC Corpus of Professional English Unveiled
PERC Corpus Online with both English and Japanese interfaces, will be available for use at no charge until the end of June 2009. The service is operated by Tokyo-based NetAdvance Inc.
The service is being provided as one part of the "Shogakukan Corpus Network" portal site, which also offers access to the British National Corpus (BNC), with 100 million words, and the Wordbanks English Corpus, with 56 million words.
To access the PERC Corpus Online, please visit:
http://www.corpora.jp/~perc04/index.html.
PERC, a professional society, was established in 2002 by scholars in fields of linguistics and English language education, in cooperation with a group of publishing companies.
The PERC Corpus, the largest published corpus in the field of science and technology, contains approximately 17 million words taken from papers published in leading journals in 22 fields including medicine, mathematics, physics, chemistry, biology, electronics, communications, and computer science.
Rare And Traditional Breeds Show: For Animal Lovers
For those of you who grew up in the country, you would probably love to relive that experience. For those who are purebred city people, then you might want to have a taste of what growing up in the country is like. That is, being surrounded by animals and fields, being out in the open air.
If you like animals and you want to experience something like a county fair, then I suggest that you head on over to the Rare and Traditional Breeds Show at Singleton, Chichester, West Sussex. What should you expect? About Britain announces the event:
Our biggest show of the year! Over 500 cattle, sheep, pigs, goats and poultry of numerous rare breeds will be taking part in the show, the largest in south east England. Bring the family to see orange bristled Tamworth pigs; the Pygmy goats, not much more than one foot high; Gloucester Old Spot pigs with their dramatic black blotches, Longhorn cattle with majestic curly horns and Southdown Sheep with their teddy bear faces and dumpling shape and many many more. Other attractions include country craft and trade stands with farm and animal themes and the Museum’s own team of working Shire horses.
The exact venue of the show is the Weald and Downland Open Air Museum, which is worthy enough of a visit on its own. The highlights of the Museum include historic homes, farms, and workplaces. These have been restored and all efforts have been made to keep them as close to the original as possible.