Category: language

• Arrr, Matey!

  The other day I was encouraged by a friend to change my Facebook default language to: English (Pirate) Which is an actual selection on the Facebook language list. So, I did. And I nearly died. It is so hilarious! Click on the image below to see a larger version:

  Charles

  October 3, 2008

  good news, language, the internets

• Nerd Fabulous, Party of One (Your Table’s Ready)

  Someone should buy one of these for Srikanth Reddy, because I think of his poem about Esperanto every time I wear it. Fun facts about Esperanto (via Wikipedia): Esperanto was developed in the late 1870s and early 1880s by ophthalmologist Dr. Ludovic Lazarus Zamenhof, an Ashkenazi Jew from Bialystok, now in Poland and previously in […]

  Charles

  January 8, 2008

  language, nerd-fabulousness, shopping

• Will Have Been

  NERD ALERT. My favorite verb tense is the future perfect because it is the closest anyone gets to real time travel. When used, the speaker of the statement exists simultaneously in two times: the future and the past. “By this time tomorrow, I will have left town.” The action is past but the time of […]

  Charles

  October 3, 2007

  language, quantum physics