Gord: Wait, is this a multiple choice question? Lime: No, choose only one answer. I’ll be quite happy when I can make such an interpretive error in Korean. I mean, when you think about it, if it’s an unknown term, her understanding of “multiple choice” makes sense: you would choose multiple answers, rather than just one “correct” answer. Fascinating little turn of conversation, and just shows how potentially counterintuitive terminology (like idioms and other features of language) can actually be. Another example is pronunciation I was trying to get right earlier. I encountered the word “꼬마” and discovered it means …
Month: October 2005
Stash Of Poetry Audio
We had our first discussion of The Cantos today — spanning Cantos I-III, and while I haven’t time to write about all we discussed today — I’ll try to get to it tomorrow — I think this link from Jason was very much worth sharing. It’s the Factory School’s Poetry and Literature Digital Audio Archive, and not only has it a big collection of Pound audio, but also audio from all kinds of other poets. If you’re into poetry, it’s a link to check out.
Computer Running Slower Than Before?
UPDATE (30 Oct. 2013): I sincerely doubt anyone could need the script, but if you do? Stop using Windows XP. It’s 2013. Anyway, I found this because I’m clearing out my site database and the attachment plugin, long gone, left a record in the database. Now that’s gone… and so is the script. ORIGINAL POST: This handy little script will hack your registry and restore everything to DMA mode. This translates to faster speeds for those whose PCs seem to have slowed down over time, often enough. At least, it’s worked for me and a few others. I downloaded it …
Links on Atheism and Religion
Marvin‘s put up some interesting links on atheism and the twisted way religion affects court appointments in America.
The Book Hocker and the Real Percentage
Well, I can’t REALLY complain, I got a new book to scam exercises from, but I tend not to enjoy the kinds of “presentations” that some guys make which really consist of them hocking books. I can usually tell within a few minutes of silent scanning whether or not a textbook will be useful to me or my students, and all the talk in the world won’t change how I perceive my students’ needs. Of course, it might be thatI’m generalizing about students and that in fact, many classes could sort-of handle the kind of text we looked at today, …