Comments on: Harvard Crimson on the Clash of Civilisations /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/ But I fear more for Muninn... Thu, 16 May 2013 14:30:52 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.2.2 By: Muninn /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/comment-page-1/#comment-10503 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 20:36:54 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/?p=379#comment-10503 Thanks Glenn…I wish I had an editor for my typos…

]]> By: Glenn F. Henriksen /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/comment-page-1/#comment-10501 Mon, 27 Feb 2006 14:50:14 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/?p=379#comment-10501 Hehe, we complain that Americans think Norway is the capitol of Sweden but how many Norwegians know what the capitol of Belarus is (a rather large country in Europe) or Benin (a small country in Afrika with 60% more people than Norway)

But still, one should perhaps expect more from something coming out of Harward.

BTW, Mitch, throw and through is not the same… ;)

]]> By: Muninn /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/comment-page-1/#comment-10384 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:46:49 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/?p=379#comment-10384 Craig – Shocking! I have fired my editorial staff for failing to notice this egregious abuse of the English language. Looking through my other postings, I realized they have been slacking throughout their tenure at Muninn.

As to your earlier point about this not being limited to the US, I debated including a few anecdotes discussing the far greater ignorance of some Norwegian exchange students I met in Korea studying at Seoul National University last summer, but then decided going back to bed to kick this cold was a better idea…

]]> By: GON /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/comment-page-1/#comment-10383 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:29:17 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/?p=379#comment-10383 Probably because Crimson people drink only Sam Adams…..or they keep drinking Heineken and Carlsberg in turn, and realized the tast is identical….I think the hidden point of this article is why do we import such cheap beers all the way from Europe.

]]> By: Craig /blog/2006/02/harvard-crimson-on-the-clash-of-civilisations/comment-page-1/#comment-10382 Wed, 15 Feb 2006 20:20:13 +0000 http://muninn.net/blog/?p=379#comment-10382 While I agree with Konrad’s larger point about the lack of geographical discrimination at play in both the article in question and the educations of a great number of U.S. Americans, I must point out that such problems are not limited to either geography or the education system of the United States. Case in point is Konrad’s ignorant spelling of the word “disappointed” as “dissapointed” in the last sentence of this blog entry.

Pees and esses may look very similarly, but they are not the same. These sorts of mix-ups are common of course, and admittedly the two letters share much (they both appear in the same area of the alphabet, for example) but I am deeply concerned that a burgeoning academic would make so basic an error.

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