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On the topic of Enya’s new made-up language,
Terry Dolan, professor of English at University College Dublin, said: “It’s a very eclectic language. It seems to choose elements at random. It brings in a whole wealth of different language forms such as Anglo-Saxon, Hindu, Welsh and, I think, Siberian Yupik as well.”

Repeat after me: Hindu is [...]

The Discovery channel has a story about how the “traditional” Thanksgiving meal is not that traditional after all. From the article:
“Most farmers tried to kill a wild turkey or a deer for Thanksgiving, but more often than not they wound up killing a goose or a hen that no longer was a good egg [...]

As I write this, I’m sitting in our living room. My wife has decided that her job this morning is to optimize the Thanksgiving parade broadcast. She keeps switching between NBC, CBS and one other channel which I think is actually broadcasting something from Disneyland, Disneyworld or something like that. It is [...]

Lernen Sie Deutsch mit Klaus-Joachim Gebauer. Das Tageswort ist “Lustreise”. Wiederholen Sie bitte: “Lustreise”.

Uttered on Desperate Housewives yesterday was the stupidest line in the show so far. Don’t take me wrong, I like the show (although the second season is definitely not as good as the first) but Mike asking his dog “what is it, boy?” (I’m paraphrasing) made it look like Mike’s brain had melted somehow. [...]

Peu de temps après sa nomination, j’avais exprimé mon opinion (Michaëlle Jean: de journaliste à politicienne…) que Madame Jean était devenue politicienne. Elle a disgracieusement confirmé mon opinion lors d’un récent dîner de presse notamment lorsqu’elle a évoqué le passé entaché de drogue d’André Boisclair.
Même les membres de sa famille sont désolés de son [...]

CNN has a report detailing the content of Brown’s emails around the time Katrina hit Louisiana. What I’m basically getting out of this is that Brown had fingers up both nostrils and was drooling on himself while Louisiana was going to hell.

New Scientist reports that Nestec has a patent for the production method of some hybrid beverage of coffee and beer. I was concerned that I wouldn’t be able to enjoy the new creation since I don’t drink alcohol but it is non-alcoholic. Ok, now where do I buy this thing?

The infective participle is used with a main verb in the postpartum present tense to indicate the retrograde completion of the action signified by the main verb of the sentence. The infective participle agrees in gender, number, longitude and latitude with the subject of the main verb if it appears before the subject. [...]