a thought-- the use of chatting/texting speech is the foil of creating a creole... the youngest generation is paring down the language to what they consider the essentials, creating a dialect of sorts. In creating a creole, the youngest speakers of a pidgen fill in grammar regulations and conjunctives, where in text speech, those are the first ( Read more... )

The German Holocaust killed 6 million Jewish Europeans, as well as 5-11 million other individuals-- Poles, Soviets, homosexuals, people with disabilities, and gypsies among them ( Read more... )

a friendly message about grooming ( Read more... )

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so, first of all, thanks so much you lifeless reading machines!!

However, i was just recommended about 1,000 books... which is great, and i will probably try to read a little from each list recommended to me.

Lets try this...
What is your favorite book?

(sorry sally)

Please recommend them to me. I read any kinds of them (except math textbooks), and would love to rack up an extensive winter break list-- right now there are only 4 on the list.  Plus, i have final papers, and no moving to do, so that adds about 2 weeks to my break.

Any great books?

In his book Bagombo Snuff Box: Uncollected Short Fiction, Vonnegut listed eight rules for writing a short story:

1. Use the time of a total stranger in such a way that he or she will not feel the time was wasted.
2. Give the reader at least one character he or she can root for.
3. Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
4. ( Read more... )

the unsolicited ( Read more... )

just a realization.  Life is busy and full. and tiresome, at times ( Read more... )

Super cool party tonight!

Gangsters!! Jeremiah, Welsey and I are 1940's gangsters!!

Vampire cookies!! Butter cookies with jam in the middle, and bite marks on top!

LARP tonight!!  It's chirstmas time!