I stumbled upon this article on Quebec English. It’s got some inaccuracies but is a pretty interesting read.
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Bed and Breakfast in Full Effect
We’ve got a steady stream of visitors coming until mid-month. But I’ll try and keep it together. In the meantime, tV reminds me that if you were wondering about the Harper administration’s agenda for higher education, their initial big idea is a plan to make Canada the first country ever to pull out of the …
The Sound of a Cat Puking
That’s what woke me up on this fine, sunny birthday morning. You’d think that would be upsetting, since puke on the bedroom carpet is not fun to clean up, but it actually made me smile. As of last February, I thought his days were numbered and instead he’s made it to my birthday. Skinnier and …
Bon Cop Bad Cop
Reviewed here.
Sitting and Rocking
So it turns out that La Tulipe has my two favorite things in a rock club these days: seats and air conditioning. By rock audience standards, this means unequivocally that I’m old and lame, but then rock always was an ageist undertaking and it’s just something we’ve got to live with. As we were going …
Actually,
Another Miriam writes in to correct me but actually. . . . my Hebrew name is יוספ (pronounced “Yoseyph”). It’s different from my English name because the family was serious enough about being Jewish to consider such things, I was accidentally named for the wrong great uncle. I don’t know who the right uncle is, …
Today’s Font Discovery
Hebrew, QWERTY-style: ×× ×™ יוספ Only because I was looking at resurrecting an old essay which includes some Hebraic philology. Just a little, though. The Hebrew’s a little clunky but the Mac OS automatically makes it move from right to left. That’s pretty cool. A few years ago, it was absolutely impossible to do that with …