“Has she been thoroughly vetted?” they ask. It’s an apt question. But do they know what the word actually means?
Category Archives: Language
Protecting America from Immigrants
May 8, 2008 – 12:31 pm
She makes a terific argumint.
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The sign in the background reads:
——–Tejas no es una colonia mexicana.
A tip of the hat to Robert Rummel-Hudson’s
Fighting Monsters with Rubber Swords blog.
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Will There Be Water in Lake Chad?
March 29, 2008 – 8:06 pm
Much of the talk about unsettled times ahead looks to oil as a cause: economies will undergo transition and regional conflicts will increase.
Think also about water.
Lake Chad is an exemplar. At one time the world’s sixth largest lake, included in four African countries (Cameroon, Chad, Niger and Nigeria), it has, in less than a half-century, [...]
A Singular Eating Experience
February 26, 2008 – 4:09 pm
Several years ago my brothers (Lanny and Doug) and I were on Long Island where Doug, a well-known performer of modern Jewish music, had a concert scheduled. The show was set for 7:30 p.m., with a sound check an hour earlier, but it was just 4:45 and Doug was hungry. Because a full [...]
Prof. Joshua Whatmough — Linguistics 120
February 11, 2008 – 11:30 am
This morning, rising with formless, benignant wonderings about my future and vague remembrances of my long-ago youth, I surprised myself with an abrupt focus on Prof. Joshua Whatmough (”WUTT-moe”).
I googled and found a perfect description of his terrifying and exhilarating classroom (in 1947) put up on a webpage by one of Whatmough’s former students, William [...]
