Compiled by Christopher Foyle, chairman of the famous Foyles Bookshop in London, the philavery* (pronounced fil-a-vuh-ri) features hundreds of the "overlooked gems" of the English language — selections apt and obscure, euphonious and quirky.
Google's services contain easter eggs, such as the Swedish Chef's "Bork bork bork," Pig Latin, "Hacker" or leetspeak, Elmer Fudd, Pirate, and Klingon as language selections for its search engine.
Problems controlling language selection may underlie reported cases of selective recovery of one language (Fabbro & Paradis, 1995; García-Caballero et al., 2007; Ku, Lachman, & Nagler, 1996), or pathological language mixing (Abutalebi et al., 2000), and of inadvertent switching between languages in the absence of any other deficits in production or comprehension (Fabbro et al., 2000).
For now, its lessons are deep—I haven't even spotted the end-mark of my French lessons but the language selection is small.
David then presented his own project, "BabelDiscussion", an ambitious tool which added a dropdown language selection tool to user comment threads, allowing users to read comments in their own language, as well as see the original text alongside the translation.
Besides the odd language selection (Mongolian and Latin, but no Italian or Arabic), what's striking is the common use of the wrong part of speech: a verb phrase here, a noun there.
Localisation – Support for Korean language selection.
The current chairman of the foreign language selection committee, Mark Johnson, says he tries to be flexible within the Academys strict boundaries.
Swiping left along the top of the keyboard brings in the language selection interface where you can specify your current language and the one you want to translate your words into.
Though Google Assistant is capable of understanding different languages, there wasn't a way to easily switch between them before – you'd have to configure your language selection in the app's settings.
The language selection will by default be based on what a user sets as the prefernce on the device itself, although it can also be set in the app.
