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- Joan Baez – non-violence in action
- Paul Yarrow – News Raider
- Student Journalist – bends a US senator right over
- Vegetables – committing suicide
- What English Sounds Like – a 1972 song by an Italian, written to sound like it’s English
- You see a beaver in the distance – best randomly connected internet chat ever
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language Archive
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A person, albeit a man, states his case.
Posted on February 2, 2010 | 1 CommentAvoid gender-specific language unless it is necessary. In particular, avoid terms such as "man", "men" or "mankind" to refer to people in general. -
Up his sleevies…
Posted on September 16, 2009 | 1 CommentIn which the prospect of a serpentine army is considered. -
Basically a Message for Robyn
Posted on April 30, 2009 | 4 CommentsHey, Robyn. How are you? I’m in Wellington this weekend. Let me know if you want tickets to Operation Double Black and to catch up for a drink. But while I’m at it, when you’re referring to the nonsense someone’s talking, it’s drivel, not dribble.... -
Cock
Posted on January 21, 2009 | 1 CommentIn different countries, people speak different languages. That includes onomatapoeia, as I learned in high-school Japanese. Apparently dogs go, “Wan! Wan!” Stupid Japanese people. Dogs go, “Woof! Woof!” This is why you lost the war. NationMaster (which is pretty cool) has a list of different... -
Silver Linings/Tongues
Posted on January 21, 2009 | No CommentsReadWriteWeb have posted a little analysis of Obama’s inaugural speech by running it through Wordle to create a word cloud. On RWW, you can compare it to Bush’s speech upon re-election four years ago, some Clinton, Reagan and Lincoln. But here is just the Obama... -
Murder! Blow your wig at this keen site.
Posted on December 26, 2007 | No CommentsI learned a huge amount of stuff as a kid playing role-playing games. Okay, I still do play RPGs. I meet with a few friends to play D&D (which I never actually played as a kid) every few weeks. Resource books about different historical periods...
