Tag Archives: language

huffy Facebooker

Published: 1 December 2009
People online sometimes need to take a chill pill and not assume everyone they deal with is like an angry Fark commenter or 4chan poster. A friend of mine on Facebook said “Luna Nueva” in a wall post, and some other friend of hers responded about how the adjective comes afterward in Spanish. [...]
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first graduate classes

Published: 29 August 2009
My first day of graduate classes were Thursday, and I must say having gone through them has made me feel better about this semester overall. Before Thursday, I had been stressing out because this is my first semester of graduate school and I plan on working 20 hours/week. Full-time for graduate students is [...]
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Newspeak and the Others

Published: 20 August 2009
I was a student in a high school that had a really big, older building that had lots of floors. When going to class one day, my classroom was at the end of the hall and I noticed that there was a stairwell to the left of it, going down, that I had never [...]
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praynunce tis namm cerekly

Published: 26 February 2008
I was just visiting a site and saw a comment by someone named Vera, which is what prompted this whole entry. Thank you, random Vera, for your name’s inspirational qualities! Anywho, can you think of any particular names of places or people that irk you because of their pronunciation? I can, as [...]
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