Supergrunch

Cool day today. Imagine having an interactive grammar lesson in a classroom, except it's awesome. Yeah.

It's brilliant, but I had to read it 3 times to properly understand it. It still classes as a very good novel on the first reading though.

"Procrastinators: Leaders of Tomorrow!" My friend has that on a t-shirt.

Here's the original post. :wink:

Yep, pretty much.

Some random guy who on a ssbm forum who thought he could disprove evolution with the second law of thermodynamics - he seems to forget about the Sun.

...good point.

It's from an old book written in the 16th century which attempts to demystify popular misconceptions. Apparently at the time people genuinely thought that hedgehogs tried to suck the milk out of cows' udders at night, making the cows sore and irritable.

The very end is somewhat crazy - I had a look at it in Japanese, and it makes a little more sense, but not much more. Things to note:

Incidentally, The Oxford Dictionary of Quotations is one of the most awesome books ever. You can just scan through it and find stuff of win.

Nabbed directly from my Facebook: "[it is a fallacy that] the Hedge-Hog is a mischievous animal; and particularly that he sucks cows, when they are asleep in the night, and causes their teats to be sore." - Stephen Fovargue, A New Catalogue of Vulgar Errors (Cambridge, 1767) "[A]lthough there is plenty of space on a gravestone to contain, bound in moss, the abridged version of a man's life, detail is always welcome." - Vladmir Nabokov, Laughter in the Dark "[a merchant] cam in to an hows and axed for mete and specyally he axyd after eggys. And the good wyf answerde that she coude speke no frenshe. And the merchaunt was angry for he also coude speke no frenshe, but wolde haue hadde egges and she vnderstode hym not." - William Caxton "To frighten off skittish academics who might be tempted to take Murakami seriously, he warns, 'Only a very few would be silly enough to get interested in deep reading.' Alright then, let's get silly..." - Jay Rubin, Haruki Murakami and the Music of Words "English doesn't borrow from other languages. It follows them down dark allies[sic], knocks them over, and goes through their pockets for loose grammar." - Unknown IRC user "I hear my father-in-law's response. 'oho, fine, Whiggish sentiments, Adam. But don't tell *me* about justice! Ride to Tennessee on an ass & convince the red-necks that they are merely white-washed negroes & their negroes are black-washed Whites! Sail to the Old World, tell 'em their imperial slaves' rights are as inalienable as the Queen of Belgium's! Oh, you'll grow hoarse, poor & grey in caucuses! You'll be spat on, shot at, lynched, pacified with medals, spurned by backwoodsmen! Crucified! Naive, dreaming Adam. He who would do battle with the many-headed hydra of human nature must pay a world of pain & his family must pay it along with him! & only as you gasp your dying breath shall you understand, your life amounted to no more than one drop in a limitless ocean!' Yet what is any ocean but a multitude of drops?" - David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas "He was beloved not for any essential ability but for those unforgettable digressions of his, when he would remove his glasses to beam at the past while massaging the lenses of the present." - Vladmir Nabokov, Pnin [given huge time spans] "the impossible becomes possible, the possible probable, and the probable virtually certain. One only has to wait: time itself performs the miracles." - G. Wald, The Origin of Life, Sci. Amer. "...showed that the male uses brushes and hooks on the penis to scrape out the sperm [of other males]. Many other delightful examples are known of male competition, but we shall not discuss them here because they do not pose deep theoretical questions." - Mark Ridley, Evolution (2nd Ed.) "Linguistics is arguably the most hotly contested property in the academic realm. It is soaked with the blood of poets, theologians, philosophers, philologists, psychologists, biologists, and neurologists, along with whatever blood can be got out of grammarians." - Russ Rymer

Awesome, happy birthday to you.

Well, phonetics is the study of phones (but not that type ); phonology, by contrast is the study of phonemes. And meh, morphology doesn't really mean very much as a word in itself - "the study of the forms of things" I suppose.

So, turns out I'm the only undergraduate studying phonology and morphology in the entire university. This means I have lectures with about 8 MPhil students and a PhD student, at the grad level. The first was awesome.

Source visual novel for each is made by the same company (Key), and the adaptation is done by the same animation studio. (Kyoto Animation) Same is true for Air. Personally I think Clannad is easily the best out of the three.

It's from Clannad, the second season of which is up to episode 2. It's one of my favourite series.

I saw one of those in Akihabara - they're a lot better quality than that picture implies. Not a figurine person myself though.

Fun day - after sleeping all morning, I walked around to the south of Cambridge and looked in some cool shops, then read some morphology before meeting with some friends and doing lolthings. Then when I got back I made the mistake of thinking about the essay I have to do on the number of words in the English language - scribbled down a couple of pages of random thoughts, now I'm way too excited by it to sleep... [/geekery]

And why is it in the User Image Gallery?

You might find Underground by Murakami interesting, if you don't know it already. Also Ghostwritten by David Mitchell is an extremely clever fictionalisation of the attacks, but to get the most out of it you need to read it several times.

Alrighty then, let's start.

Dude, sentence. But this game looks awesome, although we have to rely on people not cheating.