Ly

Ly may refer to:

Surnames

  • Lý (Vietnamese name), a Vietnamese surname (Chữ Nôm ar)
  • Lý dynasty, a Vietnamese dynasty
  • Abbreviations

  • Libya, ISO 3166-1 country code
  • .ly, the Top-level domain for Libya
  • Light-year, the distance that light travels in one year in a vacuum
  • Langley (unit)
  • Legislative Yuan, the unicameral legislature of the Republic of China
  • El Al, IATA airline designator
  • Labour Youth of Ireland
  • Laughter yoga
  • .ly, the default filetype extension of the GNU LilyPond sheet music format
  • Miscellaneous

  • Hungarian ly, or ellipszilon, a letter of the Hungarian alphabet
  • -ly, an adjectival and adverbial suffix in English
  • Ly the Fairy, a character from Rayman 2: The Great Escape
  • Internationalization and localization

    In computing, internationalization and localization (other correct spellings are internationalisation and localisation) are means of adapting computer software to different languages, regional differences and technical requirements of a target market. Internationalization is the process of designing a software application so that it can potentially be adapted to various languages and regions without engineering changes. Localization is the process of adapting internationalized software for a specific region or language by adding locale-specific components and translating text. Localization (which is potentially performed multiple times, for different locales) uses the infrastructure or flexibility provided by internationalization (which is ideally performed only once, or as an integral part of ongoing development).

    Naming

    The terms are frequently abbreviated to the numeronyms i18n (where 18 stands for the number of letters between the first i and the last n in the word “internationalization,” a usage coined at DEC in the 1970s or 80s) and L10n for “localization,” due to the length of the words.

    The Last Five Years

    The Last Five Years is a musical written by Jason Robert Brown. It premiered at Chicago's Northlight Theatre in 2001 and was then produced Off-Broadway in March 2002. Since then it has had numerous productions both in the United States and internationally.

    The story explores a five-year relationship between Jamie Wellerstein, a rising novelist, and Cathy Hiatt, a struggling actress. The show uses a form of storytelling in which Cathy's story is told in reverse chronological order (beginning the show at the end of the marriage), and Jamie's is told in chronological order (starting just after the couple have first met). The characters do not directly interact except for a wedding song in the middle as their timelines intersect.

    The Last Five Years was inspired by Brown's failed marriage to Theresa O'Neill. O'Neill threatened legal action on the grounds the story of the musical represented her relationship with Brown too closely, and Brown changed the song "I Could Be in Love With Someone Like You" to "Shiksa Goddess" in order to reduce the similarity between the character Cathy and O'Neill.

    Podcasts:

    PLAYLIST TIME:

    L-y

    by: Tom Lehrer

    You're wearing your squeaky shoes
    And right there taking a snooze
    Is a tiger, so how do you walk on by?
    Silently ... silently ... silent ... L-Y
    You're a secret agent man
    Who's after the secret plan
    How do you act so they don't know you're as spy?
    Normally ... normally ... normal ... L-Y
    At an eating contest you boast
    That you can eat the most
    How do you down your fiftieth piece of pie?
    Eagerly ... eagerly ... eager ... L-Y
    On the lake your boat upset
    And your clothes got soaking wet
    How do you stand and wait for them to dry?
    D-d-d-d-d patiently ... d-d-d-d-d patiently ... patient ... L-Y
    In the public library
    You fall and you hurt your knee
    But the isgn says "quiet please," so how can you cry?
    Quietly ... quietly ... quiet ... L-Y
    Asyou walk along the street
    A porcupine you meet
    How do you shake his hand when he says hi?
    Carefully ... carefully ... careful ... L-Y
    You enter a very dark room
    And sitting there in the gloom
    Is Dracula! Now how do you say goodbye?
    Immediately ... immediately ... immediate ... L-Y




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