UCW Entertainment Newswire - New Hip-Hop Dictionary “Flips the Script” on Proper English.
New York Author Randy “Moe Deezy” Kearse ‘s “Phat” New Hip-Hop Dictionary “Flips the Script” on Proper English.

NEW YORK /UCWE/ - Any parent or teacher can attest that rap has birthed a whole different language that lives on the tongues of America’s youth. Anyone who thinks 50 Cent is something one uses to buy a soda or Eminem is a little candy-shelled treat needs to get their mitts on STREET TALK: Da Official Guide to Hip-Hop & Urban Slanguage the definitive hip-hop and urban dictionary by Randy “Moe Deezy” Kearse.

“If you have had a hard time following or keeping up with the fast pace of hip-hop and urban ’street’ lingo then [this] is the book for you. STREET TALK simplifies this often-complex and gritty language in an easy-to-read, easy-to-follow way,” Kearse says.

Move over Webster because STREET TALK is a comprehensive reference guide that redefines the English language. Kearse interprets the urban vernacular used by those immersed in the hip-hop culture. Whether from rap lyrics or off the streets, Kearse covers everything over the course of more than 700 pages and 10,000 entries. Written in the same manner as a normal dictionary, the book includes phonetic pronunciation, word origin, contextual examples and clear, concise definitions so the most inept person can “holler” with “dime pieces”, “dukes” or any of their young “duns”. The following offers a glimpse inside the covers of this enlightening cultural dictionary:

STREET TALK ‘got the hook-up” for all the urban lingo. Educators, parents, and anyone who interacts with young people can now decipher the covert words, phrases and meanings “bumping in their Benzes, Jeeps and Geos” and “spittin” from their mouths. Kearse’s definitive guide is already earning praises from critics from the “Dirty South” to the West Coast and East Coast and all points in between.

“STREET TALK is the official ’street’ thesaurus.” J.M. Benjamin, author of Down In The Dirty, says. “Everyone from the ‘hood to Hollywood should own a copy, especially if you’re ready to step ya talk-game.”

With his finger “on the pulse of hip-hop and urban culture,” Kearse is a true “slanguist” born and raised in the streets of Brooklyn, N.Y. From an early age, his “verbal aptitude” has allowed him to stand out among his peers.

With the publication of STREET TALK, Kearse has given hip-hop its fifth element, which consists of “DJing, breakdancing, rhyming, graffiti, and now ‘Slanguage’”.

CUP plans dictionary on cell phone- The Economic Times
CHENNAI: Cambridge University Press (CUP) is planning to introduce a dictionary on mobile phones in India, its chief executive said.

“Many software and cellular service providers are on the look out for a quality content like dictionary,” Stephen R Bourne told reporters here last night.

CUP has tied up with a Chinese telecom company last year to provide Cambridge Learners Dictionary in China.

He said CUP wanted a similar tie-up with an Indian service povider to provide dictionary on mobile phone. “We expect to join hands with some Indian company soon,” he said.

Speaking after opening the CUP’s centre housing three departments - the CUP, Cambridge International Examinations and Cambridge English for speakers of other languages, he said it will serve as an institution that provides better service for the academic and language purpose of the people.

Earlier CUP and Cambridge Assessment Board operated seperately in most parts of the world, but now it has been brought together at the centre here and this model would be replicated elsewhere, he said.

intr.v. con·fab·u·lat·ed, con·fab·u·lat·ing, con·fab·u·lates
To talk casually; chat.
Psychology. To fill in gaps in one’s memory with fabrications that one believes to be facts.

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[Latin cnfbulr, cnfbult- : com-, com- + fbulr, to talk (from fbula, conversation. See fable).]
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con·fabu·lation n.
con·fabu·lator n.
con·fabu·la·tory (-l-tôr, -tr) adj.

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Translations for: Confabulate
Nederlands (Dutch)
met elkaar praten, gaten in het geheugen vullen met verzinsels

Français (French)
confabuler, bavarder, converser

Deutsch (German)
v. - plaudern

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. συνομιλώ, κουβεντιάζω, διηγούμαι φανταστικά περιστατικά εξαιτίας παραμνησίας

Italiano (Italian)
confabulare

Português (Portuguese)
v. - confabular (coloq.)

Русский (Russian)
трепаться, болтать

Español (Spanish)
v. intr. - charlar, confabular, platicar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - samspråka, småprata

中国话 (Simplified Chinese)
v. intr. - 交谈, 谈心, 闲谈

中國話 (Traditional Chinese)
v. intr. - 交談, 談心, 閒談

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 談笑する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) شاور, تشاور, تحدث مع‏

עברית‬ (Hebrew)
v. intr. - ‮שוחח‬

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Confabulation is the confusion of imagination with memory, and/or the confusion of true memories with false memories.

People with Korsakoff’s syndrome characteristically confabulate by guessing an answer or imagining an event and then mistaking their guess or imagination as an actual memory.

Confabulation also appears to be a common occurence in normal individuals under experimental circumstances, as shown by research into choice blindness.

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Scanning the Oxford English Dictionary reveals an astounding 76 definitions of the word run. The top ten words with large numbers of meanings are:

run (76)
set (63)
point (49)
strike (48)
light (47)
round (46)
cast (45)
draw (45)
touch (45)
rise (44)

A Collection of Word Oddities and Trivia
Page 1 - Miscellany
Page 2 - Miscellany
Page 3 - Miscellany
Page 4 - Miscellany
Page 5 - Palindromes
Page 6 - Vowels
Page 7 - Uncommon double letters; triple letters; quadruple letters
Page 8 - Typewriter words; consecutive consonants
Page 9 - Misspelled words; pangrams
Page 10 - Beautiful words; most frequent appearance of each letter
Page 11 - Long words
Page 12 - Long words (place names)
Page 13 - Long words (chemical names)
Page 14 - Plurals; Scrabble
Page 15 - Mathematics; the Bible
Page 16 - Names of people which became words
Page 17 - French words; interjections
Page 18 - Last words (alphabetically arranged)
Page 19 - Italian words

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Words that include at least 66% vowels in order of length:

aa naoi aculei aucuba easies iodine
ae obia adagio audile eelier iodise
ai oboe adieus audios eerier iodize
oe odea adieux augite eidola iodous
ogee aecial auntie ekuele iolite
eau ohia aecium aurate elodea ionium
olea aedile aureus eluate ionize
aeon oleo aedine aurora eluvia ionone
aero olio aeneus aurous emeute koodoo
agee ooze aeonic ausubo eolian kookie
agio ouzo aerate auteur eonian lamiae
ague quai aerial autoed eosine laurae
aide raia aeried avenue epizoa league
ajee roue aerier aviate epopee liaise
akee toea aeries bailee equate looies
alae unai aerobe bailie equine louies
alee unau aerugo bateau etoile mealie
aloe urea agapae baubee eupnea meanie
amia uvea agapai beanie eureka mediae
amie zoea agorae beebee euripi meinie
anoa agouti booboo exodoi meoued
aqua aalii aikido boogie exuvia miaous
area adieu aiolis boohoo faerie milieu
aria aecia airier bookie faunae moirai
asea aerie alexia bootee feirie muumuu
aura aioli alodia bootie feriae nausea
auto aquae alulae boubou flooie obelia
awee areae amadou bougie foodie ocreae
beau audio amebae bureau footie odious
ciao aurae amoeba caeoma foveae oedema
ease aurei amusia caique galeae oeuvre
eaux cooee anemia coatee gateau oidium
eave eerie anomie codeia gaiour oilier
eide looie anopia coocoo goalie oleate
emeu louie anoxia cooeed goatee oleine
epee miaou anuria cooees goodie oolite
etui oidia aortae cookie gooier oomiac
euro oorie aoudad coolie goonie oomiak
idea ourie apiece cootie guaiac oorali
ilea queue apnoea coteau guinea oozier
ilia uraei apogee coulee heaume opaque
inia zoeae areola curiae hoagie opiate
iota areole daimio hoodie opioid
ixia aaliis ariose dautie hoolie oreide
jiao abasia ariosi dearie hoopoe oriole
lieu abulia arioso doolee hoopoo oroide
luau acacia arouse doolie iguana otiose
meou acajou ataxia doozie iodate ourari
moue acedia aubade easier iodide ourebi
outage reseau urania yautia areolae oogonia
outate roadeo urease zaikai aureate ouabain
outeat roadie uredia zouave aureola ouguiya
outlie rookie ureide aureole rouleau
outsee roomie uremia aboulia aurorae sequoia
outvie soiree utopia acequia couteau taeniae
peerie souari uveous aecidia epinaoi uraemia
peewee teepee uvulae aeneous eucaine
pereia teniae veepee aeolian eugenia aboideau
quaere tibiae voodoo aeonian eulogia aboiteau
qualia toupee weenie aerobia eupnoea aureolae
queued ubique weepie alienee evacuee eopoeia
queuer unciae weewee amoebae exuviae eulogiae
queues unease wienie anaemia ipomoea
quinoa unique woodie aquaria miaoued
rediae uraeus woolie aqueous nouveau

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All tournament players make it a high priority to learn these 16 Q-words that don’t use a U:
FAQIR - Variation of FAKIR, a Hindu ascetic.
FAQIRS - Plural of FAQIR.
QAID - A variation of CAID, a Muslim leader.
QAIDS - Plural of QAID.
QANAT - A system of underground tunnels and wells in the Middle East.
QANATS - Plural of QANAT.
QAT - Variation of KAT, an evergreen shrub.
QATS - Plural of QAT.
QINDAR - Variation of QINTAR, a monetary unit of Albania.
QINDARS - Plural of QINDAR.
QINDARKA - Albanian currency.
QINDARKAS - The plural of QINDARKA.
QINTAR - See above.
QINTARS - Plural of QINTAR.
QOPH - A letter of the Hebrew alphabet.
QOPHS - Plural of QOPH.
QWERTY - A standard typewriter keyboard.
QWERTYS - The plural of QWERTY, see above.
SHEQEL - An ancient unit of weight and money.
SHEQALIM - The plural of SHEQEL, see above
TRANQ - A variation of TRANK (i.e. tranquilizer).
TRANQS - Plural of TRANQ.
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Powerful New Dictionary Series for Pocket PC & Windows Mobile®! Ultralingua, Inc Releases V 5.0

Minneapolis, MN October 24, 2005 — Ultralingua announced today the release of Ultralingua 5.0 for the Pocket PC & Windows Mobile 2003-05 operating systems, a significant advancement for their line of powerful bilingual and monolingual dictionaries.

With the advent of version 5.0, Pocket PC and Windows Mobile® users will now have the benefit of the powerful Ultralingua Dictionary software; databases with up to 300,000 entries including technical terms and phrases, stemming (recognition of conjugated and other inflected forms), a text-to-number converter, contextual information, seamless interaction with other applications, and much more.

“With version 5.0 now available for devices that run the Windows Mobile operating system, we are providing a wide range of customers with the powerful functionality of the Ultralingua Translation Dictionary software, while maintaining our easy to use interface,” said Chad Johnson, Ultralingua General Manager. “In addition to now offering fifteen dictionaries on this platform, our new Pocket PC version includes Ultralingua favorites: a choice of stemmed search or browsing search, verb conjugation, an intuitive display, and much more.”

Version 5.0 for Pocket PC & Windows Mobile 2003-05 is the latest release in the company’s strategy of providing ongoing updates on a variety of platforms. In the past thirteen months the Company released version 5.0 for Mac OS X (including a dictionary widget for Tiger), version 5.0 for Windows, and version 5.0 for the Palm O/S.

About Ultralingua Inc.
Ultralingua is a leading provider of dictionaries and grammar/spelling checkers for educators, translators, and business travelers worldwide. The Company’s product line consists of fourteen translating dictionaries, two monolingual dictionaries, four grammar and spelling checkers, and the Eureka thematic encyclopedia. Ultralingua partners include McGraw-Hill, Apple Computer, Hachette Multimedia, Handango, PalmGear, and the International Herald Tribune, among others. Ultralingua is headquartered in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Lenovo alliance to pre-install software

Chinese computer giant Lenovo Group has made another step towards becoming a more significant world player, fully endorsing the adoption of genuine software in its computers in partnership with US giant Microsoft and Chinese top software firms UFIDA and Kingsoft.
Lenovo formed an alliance with the three firms in Beijing Tuesday and vowed to pre-install software from the partners on all its computers from December.
It is the world’s third largest computer maker since acquiring IBM’s personal computer business last year.
Microsoft will be able to access all new Lenovo computer users with its Windows operating systems and will also provide its Office software together with the competing product WPS Office from the local competitor Kingsoft.
The Beijing-based Kingsoft will also provide its famous electronic dictionary software Ciba and anti-virus software Duba.
UFIDA, a top accounting and enterprise management software firm in Beijing, will offer its solutions for small and medium enterprises.
Yang Yuanqing, chairman of the Chinese computer giant, said the co-operation will enhance Lenovo’s competitiveness; it will have genuine copies of software, services from software companies and solution development based on the software, but at very low prices.
Chen Shaopeng, Lenovo vice-president and general manager of its Chinese operations, said the prices of the software will be “very very low.”
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Inside Bay Area - Alameda Times-Star - Local News
THE WORD is harmless enough. It has five letters. It doesn’t have an inordinate number of consonants or vowels. It is commonly used in conversation.
But nearly always, it is pronounced incorrectly.

And that rankles true verbivores.

“Oh, yes. ‘Forte,’” says Paul Brians with a perceptible sigh, pronouncing the word meaning a person’s strength as it should be, monosyllabically without a flourishing finish on the word’s final vowel. “I’ve given up on that one. It’s a dead issue. If you went around saying ‘FORT,’ people wouldn’t know what you’re talking about. It’s an error that has become a non-error.”

The use, or some might say, abuse, of the English language, and the standardization of non-standard English is endless. A joke is hysterical when it’s really hilarious. People buy a chaise lounge when it’s really a chaise longue. Forte, probably confused

with the musical dynamic of the same spelling that’s borrowed from Italian, gains an extra syllable.

It’s enough to make a lexicologist wonder: Are we all just a bunch of idiots?

“I don’t think so,” says Brians, a professor at Washington State University who manages the Web site “Common Errors in English” (http://www.wsu.edu/brians/errors/errors.html) and who recently wrote a companion book called “Common Errors in English Usage” (William, James and Co., $15). “People have always abused language. The specific abuses they commit just change with time, so we notice the new ones.”

But today, it’s quite likely that those abuses and misuses are worming their way into standard English usage at a quicker rate.

Unaccepted pronunciations become accepted — like the grudging acceptance of a two-syllable forte by the Random House Webster’s College Dictionary that reads in an almost exasperating tone when it says, “a two-syllable pronunciation is increasingly heard, esp. from educated speakers, and is now also considered standard.”

Words that don’t exist earn dictionary entries — such as “irregardless,” a word that may have been so abused by former Raiders coach Jon Gruden that it’s earned a spot in most dictionaries, even though “regardless” would suffice.

And words that previously had one definition gain altogether new ones — such as “boo,” one of the latest words to enter the esteemed Oxford Dictionary of English that has nothing to do with ghosts but instead means a person’s boyfriend or girlfriend.

“People crave novelty in language, and we have to reflect what’s going on,” says Oxford American Dictionary editor Erin McKean, based in Chicago. “Dictionaries are recorders of language, not guardians of it. We describe what people actually say and write, not what we think they should say and write.”

The seeming increase in language abuse might be attributed to the current preferred modes of communication, which are heavily text-based in terms of e-mails, text messages and blogs, yet at the same time are somewhat illiterate, in terms of lagging readership of newspapers, magazines, books and other resources that are written — and, more important, edited — by professionals.

“The fact is that people read much less than they used to, but they’re writing more,” says Brians. “They’re more aurally-based writers — they write things based on what they’ve heard.”

Courtesy the Internet, those misuses, abuses, slang and shorthand are broadcast to the world, or at least, the World Wide Web, where they earn a