Apologies if I've got the IPA wrong. I'm most of the way to a Dawn/Don merger and have difficulty distinguishing the subtle differences between some of these vowels. I relied on the following Wikipedia articles, some of which might be incorrect, incomplete, or misinterpreted by me.

æ a ɑ ɔ

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We just drove by a CompUSA. Gawked at it from the highway. Someone explain this pattern of stores to me?

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Ta Nehisi-Coates at The Atlantic has a couple of recent posts on football that led to surprisingly good conversations in the comments. (Surprisingly, because I'm not sure why I even clicked on the ones about this sport I don't follow at all.) In the follow-up to The Second Lives of Pro Football Players, he writes about how football players, like ( Read more... )

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( A little backstory. Reasons I think my sister is awesome. And music is awesome. And my sister's music has been particularly awesome. )

The IRS on frivolous tax arguments.For some reason, this is really amusing to me. I guess it's because I can sort of picture myself putting together this kind of list. Things You Should Never Try To Get Away With Because They Will Fail and Make You Look Stupid and Also Waste Our Time. If we write it down and put it on the internet, that will keep ( Read more... )