I haunt places like WalletPop. I surprised myself by finding Clark Howard's CNN show interesting. I've become someone I would have found boring 10 years ago. Hee.

I was thinking today, as the news ticker went by on an item about "pork-barrel spending", what it must be like for someone learning English to run into odd phrases like that. Think of that for a second. Pork. Barrel. Huh?I've noticed more quirks in my own language since I started trying to learn Japanese. It's kind of like a minor, ongoing eureka. ( Read more... )