Interesting article on shift in T/V usage, i.e. informal and formal 2nd person pronouns.

Across the western world the formal "you" is losing ground. From the archive: https://t.co/ffYqpA1keh pic.twitter.com/Mu6f4APLJj

— The Economist (@TheEconomist) August 23, 2016

In tech translations I noticed a slight shift towards T forms in Spanish over the years. I usually had to change it back to the V form for consistency. In German I noticed a shift from a clipped, telegraphic style towards a more conversational style, but still Sie not du.

Vigenère

The Vigenère cypher. It turns up in Lauren Child's Ruby Redfort books, which daughter #2 is reading, and in Red Shift by Alan Garner, which I've just read. So I wrote this little library to help me encrypt and decrypt it. Probably won't be of much interest to anyone: the Vigenère cypher is almost useless for modern cryptography, and I've written it in XSLT, which most programmers seem to hate, but as a linguist I have a perverse liking for it.

janiveer/Vigenere

Interesting. Twitter as a tool for linguistic analysis, again.

Text analysis of Trump's tweets confirms he writes only the (angrier) Android half

Edinburgh Bike Co-op Manchester Closing

Ah well.

Edinburgh Bike Co-op Manchester Closing

I haven't shopped there for ages to be honest. For parts and gear I go online. For expertise and fixes I'd go to the Bicycle Doctor or Harry Hall.

I think EBC occupied an interesting position. They sell goodish, mid-range off-the-peg bikes: not pile 'em high, sell 'em cheap, but not custom titanium frame either. There always seem to be plenty of places in Manchester selling overpriced road bikes. I guess the local market didn't support their approach.

Green Man, Hare Hill.