Author Archives: Anton

leftovers

Posted on Sunday, 2003 April 13 by Anton

One Victor Lewis Smith (or possibly Lewis-Smith), to whom I followed a link for a completely unrelated reason, proudly reports: AS curator of the Museum Of Heads And Limbs That Are Missing From Statues In Other Museums (we have the … Continue reading →

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prosody never travels well

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 12 by Anton

Geoffrey Nunberg alerts us that in Arabic both Iraq and Qatar are accented on the first syllable. I wonder why we got it wrong. (Link from languagehat)

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propaganda for dummies

Posted on Saturday, 2003 April 12 by Anton

David Hardy catalogs deceptions in Bowling for Columbine. (Link from Bruce Baugh)

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a marriage of words

Posted on Friday, 2003 April 11 by Anton

Do be-all and end-all always go together? Can something be a be-all but not an end-all, or vice versa?

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did you know that the words frustration and fraud are related?

Posted on Friday, 2003 April 11 by Anton

I can’t get Java working under Mozilla. (sigh) I wonder how I did it once before.

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I’m so demanding

Posted on Friday, 2003 April 11 by Anton

From 1990 to 2001 most of my working day was spent in WordPerfect 5.1. Now every office manager says “We have to use Messy-Word because it’s the staaaandurd.” Is it too much to ask that the standard of 2003 offer … Continue reading →

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what you gonna do with those shoes?

Posted on Thursday, 2003 April 10 by Anton

BBC: Decoding Iraq’s symbols of celebration (thanks to Lee Gold for the link)

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