Tag: language
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More Julia-isms
When Julia has a stomachache, she says she has a “stomach egg.” It took us a while to pick up on this and it wasn’t until she complained to Izumi about an “egg” on her knee that we finally figured it out. Applied to other areas of the body it kind of makes sense. I…
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Insulting British Slang
The BBC has a web site where you can browse or lookup British Slang. I guess that’s fulfilling the part of their charter which has them preserving the culture of the British Isles. I like their little disclaimer on the lookup page: ***Please note: the dictionary contains many words that are not used in the…
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Fuhghet-about-it
The phrase is from a note sent to my father who, after living over 25 years in Japan, is amazed at the overt confidence of the advertising he sees on video tapes I send him from America. If you think corporate American advertising is overt, you should see New Jersey! The difference between the East…
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Tyler writes his name
Tyler informed us today that he was ready to write his name and he proudly produced this sample for the website.