Archive: Languages category
Tomorrow my arm's getting amputated.
You see, BYU library's power outage starts first thing tomorrow morning, and it's going to black out over half the library -- everything from the main entrance south. I work in the north end, so that won't be a problem, but what will be a ...
Goodness, I completely forgot that today is C.S. Lewis's birthday! (Thanks to Bruce Edwards for the reminder and also for the tribute he wrote.)
So, C.S. Lewis. He's my favorite author, one who has influenced me in so many ways I can hardly keep track of them ...
Time for another random scattering.
First, I was walking through campus yesterday and overheard a guy on a cell phone saying, "I'll give you her phone number. Do you have a pen and pencil?" (Inscribing notes on the wooden exteriors of pencils is actually a highly efficient storage system, ...
So, a comp lit fit has struck me. With my new biblical Hebrew study in the mornings, the modern languages were feeling neglected, and that just couldn't be. To remedy it, then, I've taken up a new schedule, this one fairly lightweight but hopefully the benefits will be ...
I started reading an introduction to Hebrew a couple hours ago. (I've decided that my half-hour of language study each morning will be dedicated to Hebrew for the next couple of months. I'm itching to read the Old Testament in the original.) Now, the book looked nice ...
It's way late and I really ought to be in bed, but I just got back from dinner at my family's. But then again, I'll be with them forever, so I guess staying quite that long on Sunday nights isn't entirely necessary. :P Anyway, my first impulse was ...
In the quintessential example, the hammer slams against the wood and a flurry of typographical marks (#@!%^&@!) flies into the air as the nail breathes a sigh of relief when it realizes it's safe for at least another few seconds, and the finger calls ER while shaking its head and ...
I wonder as I wander out under the sky,
How Jesus the Savior did come for to die,
For poor orn'ry people like you and like I,
I wonder as I wander, ... out under the sky.
I love this song, but there's one word that bothers me: the "I" in "like I." ...
Good news! A few days ago I talked with the department chair of Special Collections and snagged an internship there for this summer, going through all the valuable books and reassessing their fair market value (which means talking with curators and rare book dealers and such). Yes, I'm ...
In my phonology class today, the guy who sits behind me pulled out a copy of Crime and Punishment in Russian. Enter drool. Exeunt attention to professor and grades for this semester. Yes, I've decided to start reading C&P in Russian. Granted, I don't know Russian, ...
