Archive: Languages category
My thoughts on the Sunday morning session of General Conference.
James E. Faust. The story of Amish forgiveness was really touching. I especially liked Pres. Faust's description -- "anguish, but no anger; hurt, but no hate." That's a motto to live by. I've noticed that when I ...
A few ramblings:
1. Ken Burns came and gave a great lecture at our university forum on Tuesday. While I could write a whole long post about it (and probably should), I'll just mention one thing that struck me: our idolization of the present. He said that a huge ...
I'm really supposed to be preparing for my two midterms (which are tomorrow) and my grad school application (which is due ASAP, probably Wednesday), but I need some release, and writing is how I do that. (Accidentally napping in a library carrel for an hour did help, as long ...
Yet another multi-topic post.
1. Today's Daily Universe has a series of articles about domestic abuse. I just finished reading them, and it made me so mad. How can guys do that to women? It's so...evil. I wish I could somehow help every woman in an ...
On either side the river lie
Long fields of barley and of rye,
That clothe the wold and meet the sky;
And through the field the road run by
To many-tower'd Camelot;
And up and down the people go,
Gazing where the lilies blow
Round an island there below,
The island of Shalott.
I've decided that my dead time ...
Time for another potpourri post.
1. Being a creature of habit, over the past couple of years I've settled on three shirts that I cycle through each week (excluding Sundays). One is blue with white stripes, one is solid blue, and one is solid green. Usually I wear #1 ...
I just finished my last paper of the semester. All that's left is a final in my Middle English class tomorrow afternoon. And considering that the midterm took me ten minutes, I'm not too worried. :)
Here's a hodgepodge smattering of items I've been meaning to blog about:
1. Whenever ...
Rikker pointed out an interesting find on Google Books. It's a "New Proposal for the Publication of a New English Dictionary by the Philological Society." And it's the genesis of the Oxford English Dictionary, twenty years before they got James Murray onboard to edit it.
After that I ...
[Thanks to Rikker for this. Happy Thanksgiving, everyone!]
The Chaos
by Gerald Nolst Trenite (1870-1946)
Dearest creature in creation,
Study English pronunciation.
I will teach you in my verse
Sounds like corpse, corps, horse, and worse.
I will keep you, Suzy, busy,
Make your head with heat grow dizzy.
Tear in eye, your dress will tear.
So shall ...
1. I went to the BYU Men's and Women's Chorus Concert on Friday, primarily because the last three songs that the Women's Chorus sang were from Wicked ("Popular," "For Good," and "Defying Gravity"). I got goosebumps. I love musicals! :)
2. When singing in church meetings, I've noticed how ...
