I'm missing this entire term of french. *whines* And I've been to chansons ONCE this entire year. Zyfie has been ponning parrot-knows-how-many lessons too ( Read more... )

What soda's original recipe contained lithium? (7-Up)

I read that at neuroscience. Hmmm I never knew. o_O Some additional infro from the Soda Museum on 7-up! *grins* Speaking of which, did I mention that Michael, our friendly laundry man, quite resembles Fido Dido?

A bet between father and son ( I figure ) led to a very absorbing discussion on complete immersion over at linguaphiles"i think that there is a program at middlebury college, where you are not allowed to speak any language other than the one you are learning. if you are caught reading something in your native tongue, watching tv, talking, or even going on ( Read more... )

I stole some stuff which the_gazooni had posted in reply to the question I raised about languages' indequacies. He mentioned how we often neglect that others might understand things differently from us, and this makes translation quite an onerous task. This has also been talked about by Bernard Werber in L'Encyclopedie du Savoir Relatif et Absolu ( The ( Read more... )

heh i'm finally done ploughing through my mail. yea! i hope i wouldn't be too far behind the word lists in future. *crosses fins ( Read more... )

I finally got to reading up the communities. Ahhh... I'm getting nostalgic.


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