Monday, November 26, 2007
Sometimes I wonder if I’m going insane. Other times—the times that really bother me—I wonder how insane you’d have to be for anyone to notice.
Keller Mulroy, It’s Night Time in Minot, ND
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“Maigret, showing no excitement, looked at the ears of the man in green. That settled it.” —Maigret and the Enigmatic Lett
Friday, November 24, 2006
There’s something interestingly typical going on here. Henry’s article displays an intense interest in matters of pronunciation and an obviously acute faculty of observation; but it also displays an almost complete ignorance of the concepts, skills and background knowledge that are relevant to the kinds of linguistic description that interest him. This combination […]
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Wednesday, November 15, 2006
This Word is most commonly used in speaking of a Number; where I should think Fewer would do better. No Fewer than a Hundred appears to me not only more elegant than No less than a Hundred, but strictly proper.
Baker 1770
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Tuesday, November 14, 2006
CRITIQUE NO. 1
The Toothbrush-of-the-Month Club is a terrible, terrible idea.
Response: I hear this objection a lot. I take it seriously, because I believe it gets right to the heart of my proposal. However, contrary to this oft-articulated criticism, the Toothbrush-of-the-Month Club is not a terrible […]
Monday, November 13, 2006
Abstract:
Spiritual research indicates that 96% of the causes of addictions are due to ghosts (demons, devils, negative energies etc.) or departed ancestors. The seeds of addictions are introduced in the womb itself by ghosts. Due to the spiritual nature of the cause of addictions, only spiritual remedies can successfully […]
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losandżelizować, zlosandżelizować (verb) to smog over
eg Rzadko tak się losandżelizuje Rarely does it smog over like this.
note From SF Bay Area slang - to Los Angelize.
from The Alternative Polish Dictionary
Monday, September 11, 2006
The philosopher Kant used the expression “Copernican revolution” to describe the effect that his critical method would have on contemporary epistemological thinking. The conditions and qualities he ascribed to the subject of knowledge placed man at the centre of all conceptual and empirical experience, and overcame the rationalism-empiricism impasse, characteristic of the 17th […]
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