September 2009
8 posts
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Lallation
I love that this is a real word. From dictionary.com:lallation- a speech defect in which l is pronounced instead of r, or in which an l-sound is mispronounced.It reminds me slightly of ululate, to utter wordless howling sounds. Just the tons-of-ls. Lallation can also mean to babble, apparently, which reminds me of another L-heavy word, glossolalia. Clearly that “lal” has to do with...
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I hate Sally Forth. And yet I think this strip of his is pretty hilarious, much of the time.
things you can do while listening to podcasts
cook clean dishes clean rooms walk, run, etc. travel/commute …
No wonder I have 180 unlistened-to podcasts. Someday I will add to this list.
me writing about health care, apparently →
huh: cell phones
I’d never thought of this until today, but: In Questionable Content (the webcomic), no one uses cell phones.
There’s nothing I have to say to this. It’s not even interesting.
Alternately:
Where did I hear about this? Jonathan Coulton’s “Skullcrusher Mountain”. I wonder if his other songs are any good. This one is ridiculous, and involves killing a pony, and...
repost from LiveJournal: huh: handwriting
Interesting article on handwriting? Yeah: the author talks about the way we write, the way we should write, and so on.
I’m intrigued: I guess it never really occurred to me that (a) italics were different from roman characters (they are: try it in Word — I can’t do it here, because the font I’m using online just shows oblique type: compare QQ and aa), (b) handwriting was...