“English: A language that lurks in dark alleys, beats up other languages, and rifles through their pockets for spare vocabulary” Our language is a bastard. In fact, of 80,000 English words, roughly 28% originate from Latin, 28% from French, and 25% from Germanic languages, so more than 3/4ths of English kinda… isn’t. What’s worse is we use this language to tell each other things that aren’t so. Oh, I don’t mean lying, though that’s certainly a bad thing. I mean [...]
“Seize the moment. Remember all those women on the ‘Titanic’ who waved off the dessert cart.” ~ Erma Bombeck 201.8 lbs. Getting close, but no cigar. Still, if I drop 2 lbs in the next 2 days I’ll still pass the pale of dropping 40 lbs in the first 50 days. I get a few emails of the “reads, shots, and leaves” variety – people who apparently skim an article and immediately start clacking the keys. They sound rather like [...]
“In the Middle Ages, they had guillotines, stretch racks, whips and chains. Nowadays, we have a much more effective torture device called the bathroom scale. “ ~Stephen Phillip 207.6 lbs. I set a few milestones for myself when I undertook this project, and I was hoping to be down 40 lbs by the halfway mark at Day 51. So far I’m on track with 16 days to drop 7.6 lbs. Remember, I’m doing this to show how harmful starving yourself [...]
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