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Succeeds at Neither Entertaining Nor Informing
Image Provided By: www.StockMonkeys.com Through June, July, and August, Doug complained about his summer reading assignment, a book called Strange As This Weather Has Been, by an author with the...
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Peanut Eyes
In a social-media gimmick to promote the the new Peanuts movie, a web page is being shared that invites you to “get Peanutized!” I went there, expecting to upload a headshot and be amused at what came...
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Don’t Believe Me Just Watch
I’ve been thinking about “Uptown Funk,” the song b Mark Ronson and Bruno Mars that spent fully one quarter of the year 2015 at the top of the US Billboard chart. You’ve heard it, of course. There was...
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All or Nothing On the Field
Last Wednesday, as I watched Hillary Clinton’s concession speech, she told her campaign workers: You left it all on the field, every single one of you. On the other hand, the week before, Cleveland...
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Babbling with L
I loved this punning tweet from @ScottishScouse that ties together the Oscar-nominated movie La La Land, the Teletubbies, and Eastern Europe. It has inspired me to post another installment of...
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/(h)ej(ː)o/
Lin-Manuel Miranda’s musical Hamilton hit it big last year. I gradually became aware of it during the winter and spring, and eventually bought the original cast recording for my wife. The songs soon...
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Black Little People
My brother Glen is a fan of Game of Thrones, and recently he came across a this blog post by Adrienne Marie Brown, where she proposes an all-black cast for GoT. However, when Glen reached the bottom of...
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Through Houses They Had Never Been Through Before
It’s been a while since I wrote about things I noticed in books I read to Doug and Adam at bedtime. It started to be tough to do that when they started going to bed later than I did, and became just...
View ArticleSome Phonetic N-L-ysis (Or, You’ll Want to Hold Your Nose for This One)
In doing pronunciation tutoring for international students, I’ve found one pronunciation error to be particularly difficult for students to overcome. The specific problem, which I’ve noticed most...
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Grover and the Excellent Idea
It’s been called “the new Laurel vs. Yanny“: A six-second video clip from Sesame Street in which Grover expresses his enthusiastic approval for an idea that a fellow Muppet named Rosita suggests. In...
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