John Chappell‘s almost reached the 100 comment mark on his Mon 16th post. That’s nothing: I could get 1000 in a couple of hours were I to post something with a title as ridiculous as this. update 2004/02/19 13:39 An wellwisher has kindly sent in a photo he took of me a while back. I’m…
This stuff should be subsidised, not banned, although I can’t work out whether the machines used to produce it are translators or generators. Here’s something I received this morning (URL omitted): Our soft pensil makes sound. Our noisy round eraser is thinking and our children beautiful spoon arrives. A golden glasses smells at the place…
As a second-class Anglo-Saxon, I would have immediately and incorrectly assumed that the use of the word shatnes in connection with wool and linen referred to the increase in hygiene and decrease in mortality that resulted from making undergarments from the latter rather than the former (PDF). Via LanguageHat.
News tha the forst results frem a git big survey on the use of Valencian carried oot fre the Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua are expected in aboot a month. The AVL (photos) is another one of those wonderful clubs heor in Spain in which a bunch of aad lads put on suits an get…
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