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¿qué lenguaje usted está hablando?…

One of the joys of web surfing is finding oneself in out of the way places…  But sometimes those spots are so remote that one need a bit of assistance locating oneself.  Now, thanks to the good folks at LangID, help is at hand.

One simply types/pastes in the opaque text, and LangID identifies the language in which it’s written.

Muy bueno!

As we orient ourselves with orthography, we might raise a cerveza and wish our neighbors a Feliz Cinco de Mayo, as it was on this date in 1862 (while attentions above the border were on the Shenandoah Valley and Stonewall Jackson in a different war of independence) that General Ignacio Zaragoza and his brave forces turned back a French assault at Puebla de los Angeles– and turned the tide of resistance in Mexico.

Ignacio Zaragoza

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May 5, 2009 at 1:01 am

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