Archive for July, 2008
Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Mr. Smith, would you step this way please?
. . . we’d like to habeas your corpus unconstitutionally real quick.
The Federal government’s terrorist watch list has hit one million records, per their own admission. This is a million names, not a million people; names like ‘Robert Johnson’ mean that tens of thousands of Americans with that name are marked as suspects. Senator Ted [...]
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
I’m sorry, the border is closed today.
Perhaps tomorrow.
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Thursday, July 17th, 2008
Keeping things regular
From the taking-it-a-bit-too-far department:
Probably you know that a European (ISO) A0 sheet of paper is one square meter, and that successive sizes are half the preceding, so that an A1 is an A0 folded in half, down to A7; A4 is the standard ‘letter’ paper. The standard is very consistent, such that the weight of [...]
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Monday, July 14th, 2008
Courtyard from the Salone at the American Academy in Rome
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Thursday, July 3rd, 2008
Roman Italian
My colleagues will be delighted to learn that Romans voice coronals and velars intervocalically in rapid speech (not that they have any other setting), though geminates are more resistant.
ʌmɛrikɐ -> ʌmɛrigɐ
Complex onsets are allowed, complex codas are tolerated if sonorant enough, but discouraged. And the mozzarella is really beyond comprehension.
