Sat 30 Apr, 2005 11:12 pm - Smartass vs. wiseass
They sound to me like regional variants. You know, like, maybe wiseass is New York, smartass is Chicago? (view)
Thu 13 May, 2004 11:48 am - Language as a martial art
In his novel [u]Iron and Silk[/u], Mark Saltzman describes a Chinese martial artist who wishes to learn English. Since his study of martial arts is built as a series of... (view)
Tue 9 Mar, 2004 09:25 am - I'm wondering if anyone knows of any online (or CD-ROM based) tutorials to teach the various scripts of the various languages which don't use the 'standard' Roman alphabet.... (view)
Mon 1 Mar, 2004 08:33 pm - I think you are probably correct. More precisely (in my case at least) I think it's because of the writing system. With Chinese and Japanese, learning to read is like learning a completely... (view)
Wed 25 Feb, 2004 08:45 pm - You know, I had a similar experience. I picked up French when I was six. I was speaking Spanish even earlier. I added German in college for no more compelling reason than the fact that I had an... (view)
Wed 25 Feb, 2004 12:50 pm - Answers to emode.com IQ test ( "the original IQ test&qu
One simple way, perhaps, in question #20, to see that Sandy will beat John (am I remembering the situation correctly?):
Sandy... (view)
