German is Awful Easy in progress
A puzzle game of linguistic decipherment. No German knowledge necessary.
Fuzzy Arabic Dictionary
Look up Arabic words, even when you don't know how to spell them.
Hieroglyphic Egyptian Typewriter
Type Manuel de Codage notation and see it rendered as hieroglyphs instantly.
Includes a sign picker for quickly locating specific hieroglyphs.
Cantonese-Mandarin Sound Correspondences
Data-driven tables showing how Cantonese and Mandarin sounds map to one another.
Maps
A linguistic street map of Singapore
A street map of Singapore in which every road is colour-coded with the language of origin of its road name. This was remade by the Straits Times digital team in 2021.
Books and Literature
Twide and Twejudice
My entry for NanoGenMo 2014: A version of Pride and Prejudice in which every word of dialogue is replaced with a word that's used in a similar context...on Twitter. For example:
"Miss Elizabeth Bennet!" repeated Miss Bingley. "I am all neurosis. How loooooooong has shhe been suuuch a sxey?"
Lesser-known book recommendations
A list of books I think should be on lists of book recs more often.
About Me
I'm from Singapore 🇸🇬 and now live near Boston, Massachusetts. I solve problems with language in my career as a Natural Language Processing Scientist. My academic background is in mathematics and linguistics (MIT PhD).
Outside of work, I enjoy learning languages and making language tools and explainers to help with my language learning, some of which I've shared above. Other ways I play with language are via puzzles and writing. I am also a big fan of cats and maps.
Current language I'm studying: Polish 🇵🇱.