My Areas of Interest 興趣領域

Major long-term

• Linguistics, grammar, usage, dictionaries and thesauri
  • Mistranslations from miscomprehension
• Translation and interpretation
  • Techniques
• Language and languages
• Idioms and fixed expressions 成語
• Writing 寫作
• PKM 個人知識管理 and Note-taking
• Glossary Lookup and management

Minor long-term

• Speech sound and audio processing
• Teaching language and interpretation
• PKM 個人知識管理, especially Anki and Obsidian (you are looking at an instance of it)
• Regular expressions (Regex or RegExp)
• Computer-assisted interpretation (CAI) tools
• Pronunciation, phonetics, IPA, SAMPA and orthoepy
• Computer-assisted translation (CAT) tools
• Singing and vocal harmony
• Reading by listening to audio book summaries
• Book digitization
• Literary appreciation
• Up-leveling my French
• Perl 6 (Raku) Programming

Major short-term

• Web publishing - The process of publishing this website
• Hearing loudly and clearly
• Migrating and merging glossary data

Minor short-term

• Computer Programming 電腦程式設計
• ChatGPT applications

Minor transient (the shining objects of the moment)

(New to old)

• Migrating and merging glossary data
• A large rolling briefcase, such as Briefcase on wheels
• Typography, typefaces and fonts

Tools I use