“Can we pretend none of that happened?”
Can we pretend that none of today happened?
I have trust issues. I wouldn’t want to live with anyone who couldn’t be bought.
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Today’s word: Casa
3/28/07
Let the pronoun they serve as an indefinite 3rd person singular pronoun. At the most basic level, this allows the he/she conundrum to be circumvented. However, this more generally allows deliberate vagueness, by allowing description without detail. Even gender and number can be obfuscated.
No idea on a solution, pronoun based or otherwise, for distinguishing between the 1st person plurals formed by 1st + 2nd from those formed by 1st + 3rd.
We are so awesome. We-GFWBAFB2P, that is.
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Today’s word: Insieme
No idea on a solution, pronoun based or otherwise, for distinguishing between the 1st person plurals formed by 1st + 2nd from those formed by 1st + 3rd.
We are so awesome. We-GFWBAFB2P, that is.
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Today’s word: Insieme
3/27/07
“There are 7 rules about the uses of the subjunctive, and one is that the uses of the subjunctive are infinite and you’ll spend the rest of your life learning the uses of the subjunctive.”
There is a magic in someone who has not touched the language in years having their eyes glaze over as if entering some mystic trance and pouring out from the restraints of forgotten strands of memory the simple rhythm of do, dare, dedi, datum. The language has spoken to me.
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Today’s word: Latino
There is a magic in someone who has not touched the language in years having their eyes glaze over as if entering some mystic trance and pouring out from the restraints of forgotten strands of memory the simple rhythm of do, dare, dedi, datum. The language has spoken to me.
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Today’s word: Latino
3/26/07
3/25/07
3/24/07
[My @wustl account seems to not be working. If anyone e-mailed me in the past week, especially about housing, please resend by IM.]
The 300 is gratifyingly enjoyable despite it being an epic and overhyped, although divergence from historical details, even if artistic, still must incur some minimal level of wincing. The most incongruous moment, however, is when suddenly the Spartan numbers drop from 297 to 2; although the sudden abandonment of unity for individuality feels just as dissonant. There is certainly an allegorical theme, although that is much an issue of current modern geopolitics as much as one of historical accuracy.
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Today’s word: Teatro
The 300 is gratifyingly enjoyable despite it being an epic and overhyped, although divergence from historical details, even if artistic, still must incur some minimal level of wincing. The most incongruous moment, however, is when suddenly the Spartan numbers drop from 297 to 2; although the sudden abandonment of unity for individuality feels just as dissonant. There is certainly an allegorical theme, although that is much an issue of current modern geopolitics as much as one of historical accuracy.
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Today’s word: Teatro
3/22/07
[My @wustl account seems to not be working. If anyone e-mailed me in the past week, especially about housing, please resend by IM.]
Some days need 2 rolls.
When they’re this wrong and you’re this right, it’s worth remembering that *you* don’t have to justify yourself to *them*.
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Today’s word: Simpatico
Some days need 2 rolls.
When they’re this wrong and you’re this right, it’s worth remembering that *you* don’t have to justify yourself to *them*.
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Today’s word: Simpatico
3/21/07
3/20/07
William Henry Harrison Principle
Brevity is either elegant or awkward.
Much has been done/needs doing.
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Today’s word: Sei
Brevity is either elegant or awkward.
Much has been done/needs doing.
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Today’s word: Sei
3/19/07
3/1/07
Spring Break:
Sicily 3/2-10
England 3/11-18
Some vacations I would pay to take.
"What did you do on your vacation, grandpa?"
"Killed a mugger."
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Today’s word: Vacanza
Sicily 3/2-10
England 3/11-18
Some vacations I would pay to take.
"What did you do on your vacation, grandpa?"
"Killed a mugger."
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Today’s word: Vacanza
2/28/07
2/27/07
2/26/07
“Where civil blood makes civil hands unclean...”
Returning back from Verona, I discover that I do not have my camera, though I know the exact location on the train where it must have fallen out. However, I am stonewalled by the Tiburtina customer assistance attendant, who refused to respond to my Italian or to what I had someone write out lest my pronunciation mangled the conditional. Despite the ticket office, the luggage department, the station’s bookstore, the Ostiense ticket office, and the trenitalia help line all sending me exactly to him, and despite him working in customer assistance, he would not take my request, nor even give me the office’s phone number.
At least I can take pride in bookstore workers internationally being overly nice and helpful.
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Today’s word: Odio
Returning back from Verona, I discover that I do not have my camera, though I know the exact location on the train where it must have fallen out. However, I am stonewalled by the Tiburtina customer assistance attendant, who refused to respond to my Italian or to what I had someone write out lest my pronunciation mangled the conditional. Despite the ticket office, the luggage department, the station’s bookstore, the Ostiense ticket office, and the trenitalia help line all sending me exactly to him, and despite him working in customer assistance, he would not take my request, nor even give me the office’s phone number.
At least I can take pride in bookstore workers internationally being overly nice and helpful.
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Today’s word: Odio
2/25/07
“In fair Verona, where we lay our scene...”
Between 5:30am yesterday and 5:30am today were the best 24 hours I have yet had in Italy. Gardens of obeliskine trees amid hedges and fountains beneath a hilltops rustic walkway to a breathtaking view at and over the treetops. A circumference of ruins. Balconies, battlegrounds, and battlements; theatrics, theatres, and amphitheatres. Roman jewels, Romeo & Juliet. The Arige makes the Arno look like the Tiber. Verona is a city laden with so much romance that I wish I had not seen it, so that I could experience its wonder on my honeymoon.
I went to be alone and found myself with people; there’s a lesson there.
“...There is no world without Verona walls...”
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Today’s word: Giardini
Between 5:30am yesterday and 5:30am today were the best 24 hours I have yet had in Italy. Gardens of obeliskine trees amid hedges and fountains beneath a hilltops rustic walkway to a breathtaking view at and over the treetops. A circumference of ruins. Balconies, battlegrounds, and battlements; theatrics, theatres, and amphitheatres. Roman jewels, Romeo & Juliet. The Arige makes the Arno look like the Tiber. Verona is a city laden with so much romance that I wish I had not seen it, so that I could experience its wonder on my honeymoon.
I went to be alone and found myself with people; there’s a lesson there.
“...There is no world without Verona walls...”
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Today’s word: Giardini
2/23/07
2/22/07
George Washington is an aeteological mythic figure created early on in the republic to explain various customs and eponyms, such as the name of the capital city. In fact, most of the original Presidents of the United States are likely mythological, providing the country with a cosmogonical succession myth that gradually became absorbed into the state religion. Nevertheless, George Washington is historically significant in that he allows us to see how the people viewed an ideal leader. But regretfully, there is no evidence that he ever existed.
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Today’s word: Mito
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Today’s word: Mito
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