I just love all these social networks on which people tell you what they own and eventually where they live and what they do on Saturday night. I just wish they wouldn’t list all the crap I can get on P2P.
Irish opposition parties are trying to stir up the nationalist vote with a proposal to get Irish (ca 0.2M fluent speakers) adopted as an official EU language. I know when I’ve lost an argument, and I hereby renounce everything I have said on this subject in the past. Let’s make every European tongue (including the…
Cockroach-eye view of the choir up to the usual nonsense in a garage in Sants: We’re still looking for a good tenor and more sponsorship – apparently the full video is crashing mailservers all over Korea, so Samsung, this is your chance. Contact me on my mobile or use the form. Creds to al-Ben for…
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.
The following pricelist was received from a spammer who thinks that a Taiwanese email address is worth 70 times as much to me as an American one. America 175 Million Email Address $220 US Europe 156 Million Email Address $250 US Asia 168 Million Email Address $150 US China(PRC) 80 Million Email Address $200 US…
I’m slightly confused that Asian Media Watch is condemning Lost in Translation but supporting The Last Samurai in AA campaigning. Although the latter film is more explicit in its rejection of the present and embrace of the past, the positive use of Japan clichés (chanting monks, temples, flower twiddling) by the former makes it clear…
Over a couple of lunchtime drinks today a culturecrat intimated that it might be possible to fast-track ghit into the official dictionary of a widely spoken Romance language. Being first with this kind of thing is important – just think of the PR.