Jim Rittenhouse's semidaily journal of news, commentary and reports
From the Coming Anarchy site: projected maps of Europe in the future and the former Yugoslav areas, along with their tag on microstates. Personally, I strongly doubt some of this; France has been doing a thorough stomp of its minority groups (linguistics-wise, especially) for the last 100+ years to Make Everyone Parisian, and the Bosniak [...]
Languages are a hot item of discussion at our house, because – well, there’s a big language gap here. Susan’s family is a mix of Norwegian, Danish and variations on British Isles, and there’s a little bit of the ‘Fargo’ Scandinavian-American accent there. Not much, mostly in word choice and the occasional ‘ya, sure‘ delivered [...]
“When you get mad, you look for words that attack what represses you.” Quebecois French is loaded with curse words that the rest of the Francophone world wouldn’t understand… “For some people, it’s molestation. Maybe for other kids, it’s fun, you know?” The story of Mark Foley’s triple life in the closet. There are now [...]
…that if George Allen had called an adult Meredith (who was, say, working to videograph his stump speeches for the opposition like the ethnically Indian guy was) Miss Monkey or Miss Wog or Miss Chinky, Guido would be holding me down as I tried to go after the man with Mr. Louisville Slugger. I have [...]