“How ridiculous is this? We only have the volumes from A to O! What kind of alphabet ends with O?”
It’s all Greek to me.
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Today’s word: Greco
4/18/07
What’s your number?
“8. We good?”
We good.
“Oh wait. Add 3 to that. We still good?”
Slut.
<shocked look>
Sorry, double digits.
“I need to consult J[] about this.”
<cough>
“So once you hit 10, that’s it for life?”
You could hit triple digits.
“Then you get a triumph!”
“An obelisk might be more appropriate."
But the arch may be more symbolic.
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Today’s word: Tosse
“8. We good?”
We good.
“Oh wait. Add 3 to that. We still good?”
Slut.
<shocked look>
Sorry, double digits.
“I need to consult J[] about this.”
<cough>
“So once you hit 10, that’s it for life?”
You could hit triple digits.
“Then you get a triumph!”
“An obelisk might be more appropriate."
But the arch may be more symbolic.
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Today’s word: Tosse
4/17/07
4/16/07
"The evening was as uneventful as a spin of Left Foot Red when your left foot is already on red."
Epilogue
U[]C[] and D[] never worked out. I suspect after he found out about her sexuality, that was that.
H[] and I are good friends, and it definitely wouldn't have worked out between us.
S[]Gu[] is slowly progressing with R[]. They've definitely had obstacles, but things look hopeful.
I have to meet with F[]W[] in a few minutes to talk about next week.
The Pope is still Catholic.
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Today’s word: Ancora
Epilogue
U[]C[] and D[] never worked out. I suspect after he found out about her sexuality, that was that.
H[] and I are good friends, and it definitely wouldn't have worked out between us.
S[]Gu[] is slowly progressing with R[]. They've definitely had obstacles, but things look hopeful.
I have to meet with F[]W[] in a few minutes to talk about next week.
The Pope is still Catholic.
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Today’s word: Ancora
4/15/07
“How’s the Italian coming?”
Let’s not talk about how much I’ve forgotten.
“Oh, I thought that the daily word in your Away Messages was indicating that you were picking it back up?"
It’s indicating that I know how to use the Internet and an Italian-English dictionary.
It’s official.
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Today’s word: Italiano
Let’s not talk about how much I’ve forgotten.
“Oh, I thought that the daily word in your Away Messages was indicating that you were picking it back up?"
It’s indicating that I know how to use the Internet and an Italian-English dictionary.
It’s official.
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Today’s word: Italiano
4/14/07
The Best Restaurant Ever is Il Pino at Via delle Terme Romani 71, Bacoli (near Baia). Not only were they open on Easter Sunday, but they put up with my awful half-forgotten/near-hypoglycemic ally faint Italian, and rushed out a plate of gnocchi to go, and gave me free water and free coffee while waiting, and even gave me one of their forks to take with me. Which I returned, for as awesome a souvenir as it would have been, they deserved it back, along with a huge tip.
(This would have been the first time I ordered or paid for coffee if it weren’t that I didn’t do either.)
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Today’s word: Forchetta
(This would have been the first time I ordered or paid for coffee if it weren’t that I didn’t do either.)
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Today’s word: Forchetta
4/3/07
4/2/07
4/1/07
3/31/07
3/30/07
The entrance to Hell is a barricaded abandoned inoperative escalator descending into an opaque abyss. It is located along the way to a 75 bus.
“An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. You would never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order.’ sign, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.’.”
I don’t know why I get such enjoyment from descending up escalators and vice versa.
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Today’s word: Inferno
“An escalator can never break; it can only become stairs. You would never see an ‘Escalator Temporarily Out Of Order.’ sign, just ‘Escalator Temporarily Stairs. Sorry for the convenience.’.”
I don’t know why I get such enjoyment from descending up escalators and vice versa.
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Today’s word: Inferno
3/29/07
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
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