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Sep. 19th, 2019 08:16 pm1. Giving up Refined Sugar Changed My Brain
Sigh. I keep trying. As the writer attests -- it is harder than it looks, because refined sugar is added to basically EVERYTHING, including drugs. But I am trying.
2. Nobody else may care about this...but I wondered Why Donna Tart's A Secret History Never Became a Movie
Apparently it's the age old case of the wrong people snapping up the rights, not knowing what if anything to do with them, and the rights inevitably reverting back to the writer.
Shame. I'd go see "A Secret History", "The Goldfinch" doesn't interest me in the least.
Although to be honest, I'm not positive "A Secret History" would work that well on the screen, it's an internal book.
3. Falling Out of the Middle Class into Poverty
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4. How to Survive a Lightening Strike -- This certainly sounds useful, although isn't the best way to survive one -- not to be anywhere near it?
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5. The Enduring Mystery of JAWN, Philadelphia's all purpose noun.
If your first thought was much like mine..."wait, since when was JAWN a word?" This article is for you.
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6. As if the discussion regarding the word "Jawn" isn't enough proof that... English is Not Normal...
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Honestly, you just have to get into a semantics fight with a bunch of Brits and Americans and Australians and Canadians online to figure this one out. Although I can't help but wonder if people from Spain have similar disagreements over Spanish in other Spanish speaking countries? I know there are about fifteen different versions of Chinese -- I used to in a finance department in which 90% of the people were Chinese and came from various areas within China, none of them spoke the same dialect. We'd have lengthy discussions or debates over which brand of Chinese made the most sense, was the most clear, and easiest to learn. I'm thinking they preferred Mandarin to Cantonese...and the other varieties.
I've had a lot of interesting conversations regarding language over the years. Possibly because it has become exceedingly clear to me that I live in the tower of babble.
7. Wales' mom died last night. ( Read more... )
Sigh. I keep trying. As the writer attests -- it is harder than it looks, because refined sugar is added to basically EVERYTHING, including drugs. But I am trying.
2. Nobody else may care about this...but I wondered Why Donna Tart's A Secret History Never Became a Movie
Apparently it's the age old case of the wrong people snapping up the rights, not knowing what if anything to do with them, and the rights inevitably reverting back to the writer.
Shame. I'd go see "A Secret History", "The Goldfinch" doesn't interest me in the least.
Although to be honest, I'm not positive "A Secret History" would work that well on the screen, it's an internal book.
3. Falling Out of the Middle Class into Poverty
( Read more... )
4. How to Survive a Lightening Strike -- This certainly sounds useful, although isn't the best way to survive one -- not to be anywhere near it?
( Read more... )
5. The Enduring Mystery of JAWN, Philadelphia's all purpose noun.
If your first thought was much like mine..."wait, since when was JAWN a word?" This article is for you.
( Read more... )
6. As if the discussion regarding the word "Jawn" isn't enough proof that... English is Not Normal...
( Read more... )
Honestly, you just have to get into a semantics fight with a bunch of Brits and Americans and Australians and Canadians online to figure this one out. Although I can't help but wonder if people from Spain have similar disagreements over Spanish in other Spanish speaking countries? I know there are about fifteen different versions of Chinese -- I used to in a finance department in which 90% of the people were Chinese and came from various areas within China, none of them spoke the same dialect. We'd have lengthy discussions or debates over which brand of Chinese made the most sense, was the most clear, and easiest to learn. I'm thinking they preferred Mandarin to Cantonese...and the other varieties.
I've had a lot of interesting conversations regarding language over the years. Possibly because it has become exceedingly clear to me that I live in the tower of babble.
7. Wales' mom died last night. ( Read more... )