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Relatively Sane or Absolutely Bonkers A Matter of Some Antics

Fri, 14 Jul 2006 19:15:36 -0400

A very intelligent friend of mine who has a mental illness remarked to me that sane was the absence of symptoms of insanity I protested that you can t define a term that way I looked it up and of course she was right or at least that was one of the definitions I ..

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Be With You In a quot gif quot A Guide To Pronunciation Limbo

Sat, 15 Jul 2006 18:18:54 -0400

For years I have been in an ongoing tussle with friends over the pronunciation of the format gif I thought naturally enough that it should be pronounced with a hard g since it stood for graphical interchange format By some serendipity now forgotten I came across some ..

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Esperanto A Language For Everyone How It Can Benefit You How It Can Benefit The World

Tue, 27 Jun 2006 00:36:54 -0400

The Esperanto language was developed by Dr L L Zamenhof in Europe over a hundred years ago No one knows exactly how many people speak any language fluently Some estimates put the speakers of Esperanto at more than a million They live everywhere in the world Zamenhof s idea came ..

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Dissing Dissect

Sun, 09 Jul 2006 19:26:24 -0400

Dissect is a two syllable word Split it between the two esses and what do you see dis and sect So how would a person pronounce such a combination Even without knowing what it means one would doubtless pronounce it dis sect not even remotely di sect to rhyme with hi hect But that is what ..

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The History of the Flower Language

Fri, 25 Nov 2005 21:14:24 -0500

Attributing flowers with hidden meanings and using them to express feelings and sending messages is an ancient tradition and even the old Greeks used flowers in this manner Cleopatra used to shower her lover Marcus Antonius in rose petals to express her love for him During the 17th century B C the Turks developed a large ..

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