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Author of WICKER PARK WISHES, a novel, published by Eckhartz Press "It's like 'Hi Fidelity' from a woman's perspective. A 90s book about relationships." - John Siuntres, WordBalloon. Language discussion and expression, a view from the city: "A fascinating and enlightening look at language and other important matters" - Rick Kogan, Chicago Tribune "...definitely an interesting voice!" - Languagehat.com "...a great site!" - Mary Beard, Times Literary Supplement

1.30.2006

Convert Roman numerals

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You no longer have to be perplexed by the Roman numerals you see all around you on copyright dates, statues, people who are trying to trick ...
1.29.2006

Happy dog!

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Happy Chinese New Year ! According to Mad Minerva , it's the Year of the Dog, so here's hoping this won't really be a dog year--...
1.28.2006

Excuses

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Someone sent me the Top 10 Reasons to Avoid Writing: 10. The phone rang. 9. My favorite show is on T.V. 8. I’m behind with my e-mails. 7. I’...
1.27.2006

Still dumb!

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What has happened to the show Monk ? It's still awful! It used to be a mystery with comedy that came from the characters, but now it...
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1.26.2006

Not a typo

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Mad Minerva had a post about a German company that is banning whining, and even set up a happiness website to discourage negativity. I tho...
1.23.2006

Fonetiks

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Via Language Geek , I found something very cool to help people learn English (seven accents/dialects) and for us English native speakers to ...
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1.22.2006

Life's weird

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I received a bogus email asking me to "confirm" my credit card information, and even though I already suspected it was fake, this ...
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1.20.2006

Writing hope

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John Deaver sent me this good advice from JA Konrath (aka Joe Konrath): Hope is a Four Letter Word I hear from a lot of unpublished writer...
1.19.2006

sic

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The good thing about reading other language blogs is that sometimes they look up stuff that I've been curious about for a while, but hav...
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1.18.2006

Is he high?

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Whenever I watch the show FreeStyle , I often wonder if Aaron Foster films it the day after some serious pot-smoking sessions, or if he tak...
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1.16.2006

Annoying accent

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Sometimes I come across annoying accents, and this is one of those times I can't ignore it: Michele Addey on the show Double Take . She...
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1.14.2006

Face of stone

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I just saw the season premier of Monk . That show has become predictable, with not much plot, and even a non-mystery type like me can easily...
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1.12.2006

Desperate liar

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What is wrong with this guy? Here's a summary : This 36-year-old claims he went from being an outsider at his suburban Michigan high sch...
1.11.2006

I want this

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This is one of the times when I wish I had a lot of money. I went to a Japanese bookstore today, and there were a lot of books I wanted to b...
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1.10.2006

CRIS

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I'm going to volunteer for something interesting and helpful at The Chicago Lighthouse : Chicagoland Radio Information Service ( CRIS ),...
1.09.2006

Too happy?

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I haven't written any fiction since Nanowrimo . The same thing happened to me last time I did Nanowrimo, but that was because I was sick...
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1.08.2006

Check your work, Bill!

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I saw a post at Language Hat about William Safire's " target="_blank">On Language column that began: I've been t...
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1.06.2006

Japanese in WWII

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Someone just gave me an interesting book that is hard to find (since it's self-published and has no website) called "Kanji & Co...
1.05.2006

30 k

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I just found out that Metrolingua has had over 30,000 unique visitors. That's over 30,000 different people who've visited the site. ...
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1.04.2006

MM is 2

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I just found out that Mad Minerva is celebrating her two-year blogiversary. At this point, it's my favorite blog. It has good info abou...
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