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For a lot of people, grocery shopping is one of those chores you just gotta do. I’ve always had a problem about going in places like Kroger and Giant Eagle, they somehow seem to sap at my consciousness. Something about the environment just lulls me into a zombie-like stupor. Sometimes I’ll end up staring into [...]

An autodidact is a self-teacher. In other words when you teach yourself things on your own, enjoying the freedom of being absolutely self-paced. I’ve been teaching myself for most of my life, starting when I taught myself the BASIC programming language on an old Tandy my family found outside the UCSD student housing dumpsters. Later [...]

Do you ever have compulsive urges to correct other peoples’ language? Do you feel like you’re part of some kind of “language elite”? Here are some signs that you might be going down the more judgmental path of linguistics. If you have no clue what I’m talking about, read my article Prescriptivism vs. Descriptivism. You [...]

My friend K found the ultimate goldmine of Engrish. In case you don’t already know, Engrish is the wonderful dialect of English spoken in Japan. This goldmine is an anime called “Cheeky Angel”. The company hired some really lousy translator to create subtitles, and pure comedy ensues. The ironic thing is, the whole anime is [...]