Adam and I found this hilarious Malaysian KFC commercial on Youtube.

Also, I've been teaching myself Hindi, and I wanted to find something to help me learn Devanagari (the Hindi writing system) and I found this and these diagrams right away ( Read more... )

bay game, bay slang
its a bay thang
so just know when you come to tha bay man
stunnas is glasses
thizz is pills
rippers is brawds
scrapers automobiles
hyphy is hyper
our version of crunk
thizzin is high
and perkin' is drunk

The bicycle version of a scraper is when you scrape together an old road frame with really low bottom bracket clearance and ( Read more... )

I mean, it's almost 6pm, and look how light it is outside! As a sufferer of SAD, I can be helpful in rounding up unbelievers to toil in underground sugar caves.

This krump tutorial is pretty dope ( Read more... )

Expensive Shit I Want, In Order of Importance- tuition ( Read more... )

Did some more Discorder editing this morning at work. This afternoon I've been reading old Language Log posts.

Three language-related things:

1. the McGurk effect is fucking trippy ( Read more... )

Yesterday I was checking out which Canadian universities have Linguistics grad programs. I'm starting to be stoked on school again, because this school year I'll be taking the last two courses I need to finish my BA in English Lit. I think in order to get into grad school for Linguistics, I'd have to go back and do a BA in Linguistics (my English ( Read more... )

chocolatebird reminds me why I love words.

Wearing new cleavagey green shirt today (and green nail polish, and green socks, w00t). I need a better cleavage-bra. But, waking up at 3:30am this morning (I keep doing that, I have no idea why), my brain got to thinking about my finances and I realized I ought to curb my spending habits. Enough of this outta control ( Read more... )

Surefire doldrum cures:

1. Liberal doses of Eddie Izzard and Margaret Cho

2. Beginning-of-the-month Discorder planning meeting

3. Bike rides. So, so many bike rides.

4. The Chinglish Pool on Flickr. Especially:

- Office of Mayhem Evaluation
- No Nearing
- Recycling | Unrecycling
- Unbelievable This is not butter
- Don't get into swimming with ( Read more... )

Yeah, I so don't wannna work today. Luckily it's not busy and I can get away with it somewhat.

I think it's important and useful to know how to say "thank you" in as many languages as possible. (Please note that I don't know the proper spellings of many of these.)

merci - French, Farsi
danke schoen - German
kiitos - Finnish
xie xie - Mandarin
do ( Read more... )

I totally don't know Spanish (except for a few dirty slang words). I learned that from Mark Pilgrim's blog. It is a pretty easy language to learn, though. Well, compared to like, Chinese.

I updated my Flickr. A few more China photos (I took like 1200 photos; it'll be a while before I run out), and a couple more recent random things.