December 2009
3 posts
ヨアーモンキーコロドで，日本週間！！！
I’m preparing for a last-minute work trip to Japan, so I’m getting in the mindset. So why don’t we just make it JAPAN WEEK at Your Monkey Called？
みなさん、準備はいいですか！？ Let’s go!
November 2009
13 posts
"Anthimeria" →
Wikipedia:
…the use of a word as if it were a member of a different word class (part of speech); typically, the use of a noun as if it were a verb.
The language blog Wishydig whips it out in a discussion of OUP’s word of the year, “unfriend”:
There has been lots of discussion about the verbing of friend for quite a while now. A lot of fear regarding anthimeria. Some people...
Ted Wilson Reviews The World #10: The For Sale... →
The Rumpus runs a regular series by Ted Wilson, in which he plans to review everything in the world, item by item. This week:
When I stepped out to get the paper this morning I noticed a ‘for sale’ sign placed near the sidewalk. My first thought was that I’d accidentally slept in the wrong house again, but I looked over my shoulder and it was definitely my house. I could tell because it looks just...
“My son and I are Americans, we prepare for glory by failing until we...”
– Craig Ferguson, in the preface to his new book American On Purpose. I’m listening to the audiobook; Ferguson’s Scottish accent adds poignance—and subtracts arrogance—from this sentence.
