In the language system itself, I think there are two key accomplishments.
The computer giant has implemented a natural-language system at T.
Dr Studdert-Kennedy maintains that speech moves in a fluid stream of sound that has little resemblance to the discrete tones used in Dr Merzenich's hearing tests, and that dyslexia probably stems from a high-level problem in the brain's language system that is simply not yet understood.
Scotland, like Northern Ireland, has a small Gaelic language education system, but it is also growing.
Buying a bank in another country with another language and another legal system is a risk that few want to take.
These fingerprints look deep into the characteristics of the machine, logging such things as the time zone, keyboard language, operating-system version and other key identifiers.
The company also plans to make the core language of its operating system available this summer to developers who can then use it to design new applications, much in the same way that companies like Apple have cultivated a community of app developers around their gadgets.
The coalition government says it is reviewing English language requirements across the visa system.
Good knowledge of French (as a working language of the United Nations system) would be an asset.
Belize, which used to be called British Honduras, has English as a national language and has a legal system based on England just as ours is.
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For easy operation while viewing movies or television, the system offers an advanced multi-language on-screen display that overlays onto HD and 3D video signals to depict system control and setup prompts.
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Google is accused of using the Java programming language in its Android mobile operating system unlawfully.
English was forced upon our education system as a primary language, so there's a huge chunk of native Welsh who cannot speak Welsh Things are getting better however.
Hundreds of Kurdish political prisoners went on hunger strike in October 2012 demanding better conditions for Mr Ocalan and the right to use the Kurdish language in the justice and education system.
In 65 short years, the humble transistor evolved into an artificial life form called Watson, a computer system that recognizes natural language and, in 2011, handily defeated two former champions on the TV quiz show Jeopardy.
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Puppet does this work by providing system administrators a declarative language that allows a configuration file to be described and then filled in differently based on the role that the computer on which the configuration file exists is playing.
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The fact that these nations were British colonies is also an advantage in that they inherited a similar civil service, political system, a judicial system and the English language, features that would make the integration easier than the union of Europe.
For one of the very reasons that these markets are in the Anglophone countries is not so much the shared language as it is the shared legal system.
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To be sure, Mr Powell couched the idea in vague and conditional language, and quickly added that no system of oversight could be put in place without the agreement of both sides.
The idea, says Buell Duncan III , IBM's general manager for ISV and developer relations, is to create a network of companies large and small, which are conversant in both nonproprietary, or open, computing standards, like the Linux operating system or the Java programming language, and IBM's suite of hardware, middleware and services.
Most of the non-English speaking world is literally locked out of the domain name system by reason of limitations in language.
English was entrenched as the founding language of the Internet by the Domain Names System (DNS) which accommodates hundreds of millions of web addresses around the globe.
Other recently expired empires, such as the British, Dutch, French, had left some residue for locals grudgingly to admire: habits of administration, a legal system, even just a useful language.
An English learner's entrance into the public school system usually starts with a home language survey, which asks whether another language is used at home and which language the child speaks most frequently.
That is, language is purely a means of exchange, a system that enables the sharing of thoughts and feelings.
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They really can't replace the people who speak the language, who have been trained in the medical system, who are there for the long haul.
"Silbo is interesting from the point of view of the theory of language because, since it is a very simple system, it can help us understand how languages in general are formed, " he says.
Instead, priority would shift to a merit-based system with points for things like education and language skills.
"That sort of language will have to be tackled" if this new system is to be an improvement.
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