In a comment on Mark Liberman's post "Clarification by misnegation", Stephen Hart makes a point that the rest of us have missed (or at least haven't raised), and that deserves wider attention: I may be missing something here. Slightly restated, Trump said, originally: US Intelligence says it is Russia. Putin says it isn't Russia. I […]
I think this one is the funniest: pic.twitter.com/MOOTKQy9RO — Julie Wills (@JulieBeth48) July 18, 2018
Stephen Mendenhall asks: That word is in the news again. Putin made an offer to Trump, to have US investigators visit Moscow, (and other stuff). Trump thinks the offer is “incredible”, meaning “good”. Nobody else thinks the offer is “credible”, so it’s literally “incredible”. Does anybody use “incredible” to mean “not credible” any more? Do […]
There were several aspects of President Donald Trump's recent news conference with Vladimir Putin in Helsinki that sparked strong negative reactions, for example leading former CIA director John Brennan to call Trump's performance "nothing short of treasonous". One of the controversial parts of Trump's remarks was this answer to a question about whether he would […]
In "Pinyin story" (7/16/18), we became acquainted with the language teaching theory called CI (Comprehensible Input) and the language learning method referred to as TPRS (Teaching Proficiency through Reading and Storytelling). If you read through the post and the comments, plus look at some of the embedded links, it becomes apparent that, using CI and […]
Wikipedia explains that the Fifth Third Bank's name "is derived from the names of both of the bank's two predecessor companies: Third National Bank and Fifth National Bank, which merged in 1908". But despite the fact that "[t]he bank operates 1,154 branches and 2,469 automated teller machines in Ohio, Kentucky, Indiana, Michigan, Illinois, Florida, Tennessee, […]
Tweet by Lori Belinsky: Our #Mandarin story created in 1 1/2 hours of #CI with Linda Li #NTPRS18 pic.twitter.com/2dgt99NrfF — Lori Belinsky (@loribelinsky) July 9, 2018
Interviewed by Jake Tapper on Friday about the indictment of 12 Russians by Robert Mueller's investigation, Michael Hayden said Your browser does not support the audio element. I would not be surprised if this were not the last indictment we see that- that doesn't mention an American So will there be one or more future filings, […]
From Harry Asche: I'm in Mongolia. Just had to buy the solar powered dashboard prayer wheel. The instructions alone are worth the $5 price tag.
In the comments to "The ethnopolitics of National Language in China" (7/2/18), "Uyghur basketball player" (6/24/18), and other posts, there has been a vigorous debate on the relationship between national language on the one hand and local and "minority" / ethnic languages on the other hand. In the course of the debate, many interesting political, […]
Whence the "ff" in Roscoff, where I am now? The Breton name is "Rosko". And "ff" is not a common word ending in French.
At the same time as the World Cup was being held in Russia, an even more intense soccer-related drama was unfolding in Thailand. A group of teenage boys and their coach had become trapped in a cave complex for more than a week after the entrance had been sealed by rapidly rising floodwaters. An international […]
Those of you who got an email alert, or saw a tweet, about a post titled "Corpora and the Second Amendment: 'keep' (part 1)" may be wondering why you don't see that post. The reason is that I accidentally posted an unfinished draft; I clicked on "Publish" instead of "Save Draft." Maybe I need to […]
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