I haven't been posting, partly because I have been applying for actual jobs, including about four significant anxiety attacks over three weeks of working on one job application. I hope the fact that I'm recognising them sooner and am somewhat able to defuse them is a good sign ( Read more... )

[From Ingridients]

Some stuff I noticed while I was in NZ didn't seem to fit in the blow-by-blow tour guide I've written so far.

( so it got a post of its own )

[From Ingridients ( Read more... )

I just now realised that the danish word for a costume or outfit, dragt is very similar in look, and somewhat in meaning, to drag, in the sense of "clothes of the opposite gender". And also, that I've always been vague on where that particular meaning of drag came from ( Read more... )

ozarque has had an interesting series of posts recently about linguistic gaps, ideas that can't be easily expressed in a given language. And cmeckhardt has followed up with an interesting discussion about how for example movies and other shared experiences fill gaps in language ( Read more... )