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Warning: extreme librarian content ahead.
English is a language of synonyms, perhaps more so than any other language. French, for instance, has a vocabulary that’s roughly one-fourth that of English. Sometimes this is a good thing. It allows us to express subtleties with a word that, in other languages, might depend on context requiring several words. On the other hand, [...]
Sometimes publishers play dirty tricks. For instance if a particular publication ceases and customers have already paid for the coming year, the publisher won’t necessarily refund the customers’ money. Instead they’ll just substitute an alternate publication, something they think will fit the customer’s interest just as well as the old magazine. It’s something libraries have [...]
Buddy Hackett once said that if you drop an anvil on your foot you’re not going to say, “Spring is here!” You’re going to say…well, you know what you’re going to say. Personally I’ve never dropped an anvil on my foot, although I have stubbed my toe in the dark on occasion, and I [...]
When I was in college I knew a guy who had a t-shirt that said, “If you remember the 60’s then you weren’t there.” It was very funny, and the fact that he looked kind of like John Lennon just added to the effect. It was a period of what I look back on now [...]
There are few things that upset me more than violence toward animals. I’m not any less upset by the senseless, cruel things people do to each other, and yet I think people have a way of escaping the cruelty that’s inflicted on them, even if it’s just rationalizing or mentally retreating. Maybe I’m naïve, but [...]
While putting things in alphabetical order is essentially arbitrary (unlike numbers, which do have a logical progression) we do, for the most part, agree to the rules and put D before E (and i before e except after c, and when it sounds like ‘a’ as in neighbor and weigh…but that’s another story). So it [...]
Like a lamb to the slaughter, I could resist taking yet another of those ridiculous quizzes. This one was What Shakespearean Character Are You? And the conclusion just made me feel like an idiot. I thought I knew enough of Shakespeare’s plays well enough that I could recognize whatever atrociously wrong result it gave me–Caliban [...]
Several years ago Pizza Hut ran an ad with Mikhail Gorbachov. Russians sat around a Pizza Hut debating whether Gorbachov’s rule had been good or bad for the country. Wait, was it really a Pizza Hut? On the sign, which is glimpsed only briefly in the commercial, it looked like it was a ПИЏЏА ХАТ. [...]
I don’t want to treat the subject of bullying lightly. It’s not funny and, as we’ve seen in numerous situations, bullying can have very real, very serious consequences. The book Bullying And Young Children is partly a brief academic study, citing real life examples, including children who have disorders such as autism and dyslexia, but [...] |
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