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notyourbroom Sep 18, 2008 18:18

Especially for those of you still in school, I want to take a moment to talk about Mnemosyne again ( Read more... )

meme?

notyourbroom Nov 05, 2007 23:30

I guess this is quasi-meme-ish,

but because (a) I'm not around much on the internets anymore, and (b) I'm really tired of doing syntaxwork,

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giraffe, anti-raisins, visiting my esteemed colleague(s?), poorly-photshopped, o_o, you always made me feel pretty thanks, tag tag tag!, canada, poorly-photoshopped, ink, entries without tags, i am le tired, frob the frooby

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notyourbroom Oct 16, 2007 16:48

I just did a friends-cut, which i haven't done for years ( Read more... )

As seven of my /friends have posted before me in the last nine hours, Kurt Vonnegut passed away last night.

I'm just copying the following from bokononism, but it was the second thing to pop into my head, too (after "so it goes")--I am, incidentally, Honorary President of the American Humanist Association, having succeeded the late, great science fiction ( Read more... )

sein schicksal erfuellt, fallend

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notyourbroom Apr 09, 2007 01:07

since I can't seem to sleep--

what's on your mind?

- comments start screened, but will be unscreened (unless you ask me to keep it screened, or unless I decide to keep it screened)
- anonymous comments are allowed

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notyourbroom Feb 11, 2007 11:50

because i am le tired,

here's another round of

the meme 1
post an anonymous comment on this entry. (i've turned off ip logging, so even if i wanted to find out who you were, i couldn't.) say something you've been wanting to get off your chest. you can comment more than once, if you want. post anything you'd like: a story, a secret, a confession, a ( Read more... )

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notyourbroom Nov 04, 2006 11:15

Tok Pisin is an interesting language. Take the following article on Canada:
Kanada i wanpela kantri bilong Not Amerika.
Canada is one-fellow country (that) belongs (to) North America.
or, on Saturday:
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notyourbroom Nov 01, 2006 16:22

clitic morphemes are silly.

i just had an interesting speech phenomenon;

I was talking to myself (because that's how I roll) and the following sprang forth--An item of-- a lexical item, rather, 's denotation [...]
The syntax of that sequence is pretty interesting. With my current level of knowledge, I would construct it, I think, like this:

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notyourbroom Oct 30, 2006 17:30

..ARRr.

I've spent the past one-and-a-half hours trying to work out my graduation requirements. I've been drawing up a spreadsheet that so far has 21 columns and 28 rows [available here for the morbidly curious], but there are so many damn exceptions and qualifiers to the Arts & Sciences rules (not to mention the alterations made by the fact that ( Read more... )

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notyourbroom Oct 26, 2006 16:58

mm
I don't know much what to write about anymore.

here are some things you aren't going to listen to:

clip from an excellent soprano&&tenor duet. there's some unison (!) near the beginning. and the wind and string parts are pretty cool.

italian plus onomatopoeia equals crazy silly.

ah, wasting time. such fun. c.c