Article on LOL and OMG and such creeping into student essays..."Everything is shorthand," Jeff Littwin, lead English teacher at Roosevelt High School. "No capitalization. The spelling is just awful. There's no commas, no periods." [emphasis mine]
*sigh*

Geschlechtsverkehr

Aw, German compounds, how I love thee.

(learned from watching The Lives of Others, with Dan. good movie.)

Aw, spam...


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Sitting on the shuttle last night, the girl next to me was on the phone speaking every other sentence/phrase/word in English vs. Russian, switching to English for technical things and certain idiomatic expressions ( Read more... )

In addition to watching about 6 episodes of Entourage last night before going to bed at 3:30 am or so, I read the entire Wikipedia article on the Voynich Manuscript, following dozens of links in the process.

The coolest part was reading about this dude who theorizes it's in an artificial alphabet representing the Manchu language, and went on to ( Read more... )

I just learned a new word, via torgo_x:ennuiWhy did I never know this word?

Off to Russian class in a bit here ( Read more... )

Updated my 7+ year old vocab quizzer program to be web-based. Actually I just rewrote it all.

Screenshot:


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I love both my bicycle and my motorcycle, but I hate both those nouns.

Yet the better noun for both, "bike", is now ambiguous.

The verbs "ride" and "bike" are a little better, as "ride" leans a little bit towards motorcycle, but not really. Not enough to be clear.

In any case, I rode my motorcycle to work today for the first time. I'm not sure ( Read more... )

So, it turns out that Linux, Mac, and Windows all have slightly different Russian keyboard layouts for phonetic mode ( Read more... )