I still love my job…
Wednesday, February 29th, 2012…even though of late it’s been keeping me too busy to write about it!
One of the things I love about it is that there’s always something new to do. Today for the first time ever, I defined a piece of text as a span in which lang = "sq".
That is, I defined the language of a line of text so that voice browser software (the stuff that reads the contents of the screen to non-sighted surfers) would know that it wasn’t in English, and pronounce it accordingly.
But what language is represented by the abbreviation ‘sq’? Well, here’s a clue: I’m working on an update of the website of sociologist Beryl Nicholson.