I finally figured out at childbirth class last night something that’s been bothering me about the way a lot of people talk about pregnancy. It has to do with the idea of support. The instructor was talking about it a lot, about how important it was for dads to be supporting moms through [...]
Google Reader is now presenting me the news in French. Not all the news, mind you, but about half of the Google News feed now comes in in French. I’m not really sure why or how this happened, although appropriately enough it did start happening on Bastille Day. My reading comprehension is [...]
A Cab Threshed Zen Humor Limp
A Cab Helped Zithers Horn Mum
A Cab Helped Zen Mirth Humors
A Cab Hedonism Her Hertz Plum
The only problem with using William the Conqueror as your example is that he wasn’t a native English speaker (what with the whole conquering bit and all).
I spent my Powell’s gift certificate on The Cambridge Old English Reader. Because I am crazy.
I went to Fred Meyer’s to get my prescription refilled. I came back with a new table and a cinnamon roll. I blame the wind, and the bright red crunchy leaves.
‘Roll’ is one of those words that I’ve noticed is starting to lose cohesion for me. I know that it exists, that [...]
The word of the day.
It seems wrong to me that the sign for “I love you” is static. Emphasis is added in ASL by exaggerating the motion of a sign, how am I supposed to empasize “I love you” if there is no motion in the sign? I may have to make up a new one.
Tonight’s ASL word of the day: the sign for ‘believe’ means literally ‘idea-wed’ or ‘idea-spouse.’
I’ve been thinking about names, and why humans name things. I was talking with my mother the other day and she said it was in order to know them, but I think it’s actually the opposite. If you give a thing a name, you don’t have to think about what it really is. [...]