A year and a half! It's already mindboggling that two years ago I was pregnant and one year ago we already had a sturdy infant in place of a tiny newborn.

Pediatrician says: height 33" (85th %ile), weight 24lb 14oz (60th %ile), head circumference 90th %ile. Everything looks good.

We are finally seeing that first real blossoming of vocabulary. ( food, clothes, shapes, and the requisite animal noises )

This poor sentence is trapped in the wrong language. It is in Marketingspeak and needs to be in English. Can someone please help me translate it?

“Throughout the organization, efforts are being redeployed around member-focused initiatives.”("Members" = our customers. This line would be tolerable if it were a marketing-internal document, but it's ( Read more... )

T&V (the synagogue which, incidentally, I have now officially joined) just announced a 6-session mini-course in beginning ASL! I signed up immediately! Besides Russian, ASL is the #1 language I have taken an interest in acquiring next. It runs Wednesday nights, Oct. 10-Nov. 14. I am psyched ( Read more... )

This is a two-part question (which I swear has nothing whatever to do with Sherlock Holmes, hot though that is):

• What accents do you find particularly sexy and/or appealing?
  (You can say "British", but I for one will probably scoff at you. Specific regions are acceptable. ;-)
• What movies present particularly good, squee-worthy, or toe-curling examples ( Read more... )

( personal context, both spiritual and vocational, for This Kind Of Thing and why it's grabbing my focus right now )

[By way of la_vie_en_rosie... and I found it extremely fun so I encourage all you linguaphiles to go do it, yidlach and Gentiles alike ( Read more... )

For queue: Don Marquis' archy and mehitabel (see also archyroach)


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(Boy, it's quiet here on LJ today. *grin* One would think everyone is outside enjoying the weather, as I was all afternoon. So...)

While ascending the pedestrian walkway past the lovely cool moss-covered walls of the Flume Gorge last Sunday, I said to Tiger Boy ( Read more... )

Through AltaVista. Can you guess the song?
(It took some iterations to achieve
A piece of poetry that pleased my ear.
This, simply, went to Japanese and back.)
Comments are public; read them as you wish.

Image of your eye of the coffeehouse and it is blue, the empty, it comes in the distance due to the sort of morning of the silent sunrise. But ( Read more... )

At musicjill's yesterday, the movie Hoosiers came up, and it made us start trying to think of movies that have one-word plural titles.

Goonies (Disqualified, heh. It's "The Goonies". I claim ignorance as I've never actually seen it...)
Gremlins
Stripes
Aliens (courtesy of darlene_ford!)
Antz
Heathers
Clerks
Mallrats
Beaches
Mermaids
Showgirls
Signs
Flatliners

What ( Read more... )