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Comment on The Trouble with Timeline by Lanna

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Comment on Library School Blues Part II, In Which I Rediscover the Internet by amy brown

amy brown — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:27:25 +0000

I have never used Twitter and Facebook as much as I have since the death of Reader. I’d poke my head into + to see how it was going, but (1) I don’t want to give them any page views and (2) I don’t want to know which of my friends are turncloaks.

Comment on Failing at the first imperative (library school blues) by amy brown

amy brown — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 06:12:11 +0000

When I abandoned my old blog and Reader died, I lost my connection to yer blogue! I am back to it now.

Comment on 6 Ways to Fail at Learning Chinese by anne

anne — Thu, 03 Nov 2011 05:28:25 +0000

Wow, I had no idea people were commenting - I sort of forgot about my blog, and my email has apparently been junking comment notifications. Thanks, people! And John, you made my night (seven months later) by reading this - I’m an enormous fan of Sinosplice!

Comment on Google Translate (to cabbage it) by varlos11

varlos11 — Tue, 01 Nov 2011 15:25:15 +0000

This is what i got when i translated it to chinese to english:

Waiter: Welcome, welcome!
Guests: No seat it?
Waiter: Yes, there, there. Please come with me. Party you?
Guests: Yes.
Waiter: Would you like vegetables?
Guest: I want a bowl of white rice, a dumpling.
Waiter: paint or meat?
Guests: meat. A bowl of hot and sour soup.
Waiter: “OK.” A bowl of white rice, a meat dumplings, a bowl of hot and sour soup. Anything else?
Guests: Even a glass of Coke.
Waiter: Cold?
Guest:. Tom Do not MSG.
Waiter: salt it?
Guest: can be added. No cabbage?
Waiter: I’m sorry. Chinese cabbage has just sold out. Cabbage it?
Visitors: It does not matter. I do not like vegetables. So you can.
Waiter: “OK.” A bowl of white rice, a meat dumplings, hot and sour soup bowl, no MSG, salt, cola glass. In quickly.
Guests: Yes. Waiter, I starve. Good food?
Waiter: food is good. Immediately to go.
Guests: Yes.

Comment on Failing at the first imperative (library school blues) by GwenG

GwenG — Wed, 19 Oct 2011 01:57:12 +0000

You’re back! Your faithful following has missed you, daisy chains of improbable adverb-adjective pairs and all. Especially those.

Comment on 6 Ways to Fail at Learning Chinese by John Pasden

John Pasden — Wed, 23 Mar 2011 15:10:03 +0000

Great post! You speak the truth, and it’s good to hear lots of different voices. Hang in there!

Comment on geology by Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:07:59 +0000

I grew up in Blytheville, near the site of the eponymous New Madrid earthquake, and it was the stuff of legend there. Although there were occasional tremblors (is that the right term?) when I was in junior high and high school, I never actually felt one.

Comment on 6 Ways to Fail at Learning Chinese by Stacy

Stacy — Sun, 20 Mar 2011 20:03:13 +0000

Anne, you never cease to amaze me with the wit, clarity, common sense, insight, and wisdom of your writing!