Lionel Mandrake
Lionel Mandrake's JournalBento won't print my database.
I can print labels just fine, but when I try to print the whole database (or make a PDF from the Print utility), it doesn't work. I'm guessing that the latest version of OS X is the culprit. Does anyone have a suggestion?
Items on the menu at a Mexican restaurant.
Why is it "Chile Relleno" but "Chili Verde"? The two "C" words have the same etymology, from Nahuatl "chilli".
"American Odyssey"
This serial TV thriller streams on Netflix. It got poor reviews, but I recommend it. I had to find out how the heroine would escape certain death and, like Odysseus, return home from a distant land.
Does redundancy constitute bad grammar?
This is a question about style, or prescriptive grammar, not about linguistics.
TV Westerns used to have theme songs. One of them started as follows:
"Wyatt Earp, Wyatt Earp;
Brave, courageous, and bold ..."
Song lyrics are poetry. This example is bad poetry IMHO, because it's so redundant.
Here's a subtler example: when I hear someone say "warm temperature", it bothers me. I'd prefer to hear about "high temperature" or "warm weather". Since "warm" has the idea of temperature built into it, "warm temperature" strikes me as slightly redundant.
Redundancy is a vice in English, but it's a virtue in some other languages. "No sé nada" and "Je ne sais rien" are acceptable, but "I don't know nothing" isn't. As the Germans say: andere Leute, andere Sitten.
Doctor Blake rules Oz.
The Doctor Blake Mysteries is an Aussie TV show which I enjoy very much. The first three seasons stream on Netflix. The 4th season won't be released in Region 1 (which includes the USA) until 2018, for reasons I can't fathom. Grrrr.
Can you answer a physics question discussed by Hooke and Newton?
A ball is dropped from the top of a tower on the equator. Does it land right at the base of the tower, slightly to the east, or slightly to the west? Neglect air resistance, and assume the Earth is perfectly spherical and rotating at constant angular velocity.
Can you prove your answer?
Wiktionary IPA symbol R is messed up.
In the standard German pronunciation of words that begin with an r, like "reich", the first IPA symbol should be R, which indicates a uvular trill, but when I look up "reich" in Wiktionary, the R is upside down, which indicates a uvular fricative. This is true on three different web browsers. I wonder what's going on. I'm using a Macintosh computer.
The real reason the GOP is gung-ho on repealing Obamacare
Today's LA Times had this column by Michael Hiltzik:
http://www.latimes.com/business/hiltzik/la-fi-hiltzik-obamacare-tax-cut-20161216-story.html
Definition of "schadenfreude"
That's how we Democrats feel about current plight of the GOP.
In other words, HAHAHAHAHA!!!!
pronunciation of poly-
In words like polygon, polygonal, polyhedron, polygamy etc. ...
Is there any rule about which syllable is stressed?
Or is this part of the lexicon?
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