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question:
why do I have to pay the postage for my absentee ballot? do people have to pay postage for things like tax filings and suchforth? (I don't know the answer to that.) I know that the cost to me is almost negligible, but ... I feel like maybe the government's own carrier service shouldn't charge for items which are purely government-related ( Read more... ) -
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Less than a megabyte, and less than a minute, and [I think] fairly interesting;
Variations on a theme in Genesis - Firth of Fifth
Smaller clip highlighting just one correspondence
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I just found this ipa site, which is probably more useful than wikipedia's for character-grabbing. -
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so the "reign" in "foreign" is not related to "rex" or "royal," but is rather a respelling of an O.Fr. word forain which ultimately derived from L. foris "outside ( Read more... ) -
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vague thought: standardized "newscaster english" as a sort of linguistic hyperreality [i.e. an artificial dialect which resembles, but does not match, any natural dialects]; with the surprisingly-persistent non-convergence of regional dialects standing fast as some sort of .. uhm... 'natural' counterpoint.
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Time for a thing;the meme
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 fear, a love -- anything! but ( Read more... ) -
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so
cornell's school colors are red et white
and so are canada's
cornell's umbrellas are red et white
and so are canada's _
so I have this hilarious time wandering around
with a canadian umbrella
and almost blending in, except
not
AND: now people think that i'm from canada,
which is even better.
plus five 1.
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:DD today in syntax, the professor wrote the word "colourful" on the board
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so i made about 1 litre of my favorite herbal tea ["throat soothers" by celestial seasonings] and i'm slowly draining it via a ~4oz tea cup. excellent.
now to, err, do work.
