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10.30.2009

I was actually responsible today

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I've had a strange schedule lately, so today I decided to take it easy while it was raining outside. I was quite lazy, though I did mana...
10.27.2009

Obama as a Japanese verb

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Mad Minerva told me about a blog about Japan that reports the use of Obama as a verb: obamu: (v.) To ignore inexpedient and inconvenient f...
10.25.2009

Photos from Friday's Reading

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10.23.2009

Reading tonight!

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The Down the Block reading is happening tonight: Friday, October 23, from 7 to 8 PM, at Quimby's Bookstore, 1854 W. North Avenue in Ch...
10.21.2009

Why use "some"?

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I've noticed that people use the word "some" quite often when they offer statistics. For instance, I was watching a documentar...
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10.19.2009

Is It All Right To Use "Alright"?

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English is notorious for its baffling spelling rules and its seemingly capricious and arbitrary differentiations as to what is correct and i...
10.16.2009

Some language excitement

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I've been using the Cyberduck ftp client, and I want to donate something, so I went to the donate page . He asks for either financial d...
10.14.2009

Flash torch?

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Well I guess I keep learning new English words from British TV because I was watching another episode of Inspector Lewis last night (which ...
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10.11.2009

A language lesson from Inspector Lewis

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I was watching the excellent Mystery series Inspector Lewis , and he actually taught us something about British English: he said the word ...
10.09.2009

This is authentic?

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Food companies must think consumers are really stupid because they use words such as "gourmet" and "authentic" to convin...
10.06.2009

When Alice's White Rabbit becomes a White Kangaroo

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As an adult, I read Lewis Carroll's Alice's Adventures in Wonderland and marveled at the use of puns, inversions, and other types o...
10.04.2009

Pink castle!

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I sometimes read the Japanese Yahoo site to practice my reading skills, and I found this " target="_blank">pretty pink ca...
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10.02.2009

Parabéns?

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Will be we be saying "Parabéns" to Rio? I hope so, and I live in Chicago. Take the Olympics, please. Update: Parabéns!
9.29.2009

Freelance worker

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I was talking to someone about what working "freelance" means, and I found a good definition at About.com , which lists four categ...
9.27.2009

Invented languages

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I found an online artificial language lab with a list of invented languages and various data and commentary. There's no "about...
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9.24.2009

Why mix?

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I ended up watching a show from India called Bollywood Unlimited , which is in English even though it covers the Indian film industry. They ...
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9.21.2009

Ought we to use "the Aughts"?

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With only a few months left of this decade, there seems to be a lack of consensus on what this decade should be called in English. The 1990s...
9.19.2009

The "its" is wrong

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Cristina said the " its' " on this sign is "driving me crazy every day on my way to work", and when I saw the pictu...
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9.17.2009

They're probably planning for a hit

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There's a lot of news about the murder of the Yale student, and there's so much drama and frequent updates about it, I'm guessi...
9.15.2009

English that's probably been translated from Japanese or that's just odd

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I ended up at the website of Zoom, a Japanese company that makes sound gear. The Japanese version of the site is interesting, of course, bu...
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