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Literal may refer to: Interpretation of legal concepts: Strict constructionism; The plain meaning rule (a.k.a. "literal rule") Literal (mathematical logic), certain logical roles taken by propositions; Literal (computer programming), a fixed value in a program's source code; Biblical literalism; Titled works: Literal
Literal language is the usage of words exactly according to their direct, straightforward, or conventionally accepted meanings: their denotation. Figurative (or non-literal ) language is the usage of words in a way that deviates from their conventionally accepted definitions in order to convey a more complex meaning or a heightened effect. [ 1 ]
Literal translation, direct translation, or word-for-word translation is the translation of a text done by translating each word separately without analysing how the words are used together in a phrase or sentence. [1] In translation theory, another term for literal translation is metaphrase (as opposed to paraphrase for an analogous translation).
In linguistics, a calque (/ k æ l k /) or loan translation is a word or phrase borrowed from another language by literal word-for-word or root-for-root translation.When used as a verb, “to calque” means to borrow a word or phrase from another language while translating its components, so as to create a new word or phrase in the target language.
"Rien que de l'eau" is a 1992 pop song recorded by French singer Véronique Sanson. Written by Bernard Swell and Sanson with a music composed by Swell, it was the lead single from her tenth studio album Sans Regrets , on which it appears as the fourth track, and was released in June 1992.
An Audacious Plan to Halt the Internet's Enshittification by Cory Doctorow at DEF CON 31, 2023. Enshittification was first used by Cory Doctorow in a November 2022 blog post [4] that was republished three months later in Locus. [5] He expanded on the concept in another blog post [6] that was republished in the January 2023 edition of Wired: [7]
The Electronic Literature Organization (the ELO) was founded in 1999 by hypertext author Scott Rettberg, the author and teacher of creative writing Robert Coover and internet investor Jeff Ballowe, with the mission "to facilitate and promote the writing, publishing, and reading of literature in electronic media". [61]
Internet censorship is the legal control or suppression of what can be accessed, published, or viewed on the Internet. Censorship is most often applied to specific internet domains (such as Wikipedia.org, for example) but exceptionally may extend to all Internet resources located outside the jurisdiction of the censoring state.