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.
I was about to blog that Alex's attempt to imitate the accent and cadence of Kennedy and Reagan made identifying the excepts from their inaugurals (already embarrassingly easy: "the torch has been passed" and SDI? C'mon) really easy.
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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 10:16 PM, September 23, 2011
Kathie had this to say...
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At 11:14 PM, September 25, 2011
Kathie had this to say...
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At 8:39 AM, September 29, 2011
Barry Leiba had this to say...
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<-- Older Post ^ Home Newer Post -->Our reaction, too, was that the insistence on "tariffS" tonight seemed overly persnickety. Of course, once in a rare while someone who's lost gets to come back months later for a second chance (probably so the company can avoid lawsuits, I reckon).
OTOH, on this evening's "Inspector Lewis" epi -- "The Mind Has Mountains" -- we were quite sure we heard a character refer to the US's National Institute [sic] of Health. Grrr!
Can't really expect a British program(me) to get it right, when most Americans don't. And it's all so confusing: we have the National Institutes of Health (plural), and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (singular). Who can remember?
My pet peeve on the "There's an 's' in there," thing is "John Hopkins University". I see that mistake made even by professors at other major U.S. universities.
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