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July 16, 2008

Muchly

Someone recently sent me an email that included the word "muchly", in the context of gratitude.

I suppose this is how the English language grows, by inventing new words and adopting existing ones from other languages.  A word need only to catch on to be accepted as an word in the English language.  Very democratic.

Other languages, notably French and Spanish, have official organizations to guard and track changes to the language.  The Royal Academy of the Spanish Language, for example, keeps track of the geographic origin of a word (see http://www.rae.es/), as there are more Spanish speaker outside of Spain than there are in this European country.

July 20, 2008

Hair of the Dog

"Hair of the dog that bit you"
- the next day after drinking when you have a hangover, have a beer to help alleviate it

July 30, 2008

G'hooba

Today's lesson in Farsi:

Halem Chitora: how are you doing?

Holom g'hooba: I'm good.

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