Linguistic Life

Moving Day I have a new home! All future personal blogging will now be at: From My Wandering Mind All general audience intellectual rambling...

Geek Buffet Now Serving! Like many people I know, if given the choice, I prefer to be lazy. But I also like thinking about things and commen...

New and Interesting Dental Trivia If I wanted to stretch and say that this post is relevant to the supposed linguistic focus of this blog, I...

New Vocabulary Acquired Over the Weekend I suppose, technically, I acquired this new vocabulary item on Friday, which is not actually the we...

Foreign English Teachers: Products or People? Earlier this week, a friend currently on the JET program wrote the following: I believe that t...

Happy Year of the Pig! Yesterday was Chinese New Year, this year ringing in the Year of the Pig. I have enlisted my father's pig, Piggy ...

From Theory to Practice Since about the beginning of the year, I've been thinking about the future, things I like to do, things I want t...