Language Liberalism Freethought Birds
Verbing Weirds Language only if you're expecting it to work in a simple way. This is a special case of the more general truth that Language Weirds.
Only when a republic's life is in danger should a man uphold his government when it is in the wrong. There is no other time.
The church says Earth is flat; but I have seen its shadow on the moon, and I have more confidence in a shadow than the church.
If we can't find Heaven, there are always bluejays.
His "story was soon told, for the whole twenty years had been to him as but one night" - and the answer from the teens on Jeopardy were .... What?
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I used to teach Russian and Ukrainian, and some basic English, to civil servants. Now I teach Russian at a local continued-learning institute. I dabble in Gaelic and Welsh. I'm am amateur photographer and I love birding (in a small way). I'm a Progressive, and a Freethinker, and I know Evolution is a fact - that's FCD, Friend of Charles Darwin (look down the sidebar). I read a lot, and follow women's college basketball. Also I love astronomy, though I'm a rank amateur at it. Most of all, I like living in the reality-based community...
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At 1:08 PM, August 19, 2011
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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At 1:36 PM, August 19, 2011
The Ridger, FCD had this to say...
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At 3:42 PM, August 19, 2011
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->This reminds me of something I found about 15 years ago, or thereabouts. I'd been talking with someone who thought that Rip had slept for 100 years, and I started asking people, without giving any prompts for choices, how long RvW had slept.
The answers I got were always either "20" or "100", and about evenly divided between them. No one picked any other number.
I was puzzled about where the "100" came from. If some people had said "100", some "40", some "50", and so on, that'd not have been surprising. But the prevalence of the incorrect "100" made me wonder.
Confusion with Sleeping Beauty would be my guess. Sleeping a hundred years just sounds so canonical, doesn't it?
I suppose. I reminded the "100" people that when he came back, people he'd known were still alive, and recognized him, thought he was a ghost. "Oh, yeah, right," they all said.
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