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I have run across a copy of A Sentimental Journey Through France and Italy, by Laurence Sterne. I recall trying to read Tristam Shandy once, at the recommendation of one of my lit profs, but never was able to get past the first few pages. From what little I read, however, it appeared to me [...] A linguistics professor was giving a lecture to a class of freshmen and was trying to make a point about how different languages go about expressing a negative. “In some languages, a single negation is sufficient to denote a negative, as is the case in English,” said the prof. “In others, such as Russian, negatives are grammatically [...] If there are two things the French team likes to do outside of working hours, it’s going into Baikonur on Saturday night to party until the wee hours and to go into town at any time to see something new. (I must admit to a weakness for the latter, myself.) Yesterday, events conspired to combine [...] An incident from my days as an engineer made a deep impression on me. It was the day after the 1984 Academy Awards, during which Milos Forman’s film Amadeus had walked away with the Oscars for Best Picture, Best Director, and Best Actor. Exchanging morning pleasantries with my boss, I jokingly noted that [...] |
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