I have written here on numerous occasions about the mixing of languages. It is the most basic fact of communication between Sayaka and me, as it is between many of my friends. The newest pattern to make itself felt in my life is the fact that, increasingly, conversations with my Korean friends that I got [...]
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As always, my reading provides me lots of opportunities to learn new words. In a discussion of the French royal cosmographer Thevet’s fantastical lists of creatures, places, and monuments: In this exercise in Rabelaisian nomenclature, Colossus generates Column by, it seems, the repetition of a common radical; Ypodrome proceeds from pyramid by inverting the first [...]