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Drink coffee! Do stupid things faster!
---- unknown

Education's purpose is to replace an empty mind with an open one.
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Isn't it interesting that the same people who laugh at science fiction listen to weather forecasts and economists?"
---- Kelvin Throop III

Man invented language to satisfy his deep need to complain.
---- Lily Tomlin

Arguments over grammar and style are often as fierce as those over IBM versus Mac, and as fruitless as Coke versus Pepsi and boxers versus briefs.
---- Jack Lynch

I do not fear computers. I fear the lack of them.
---- Isaac Asimov

As an adolescent I aspired to lasting fame, I craved factual certainty, and I thirsted for a meaningful vision of human life - so I became a scientist. This is like becoming an archbishop so you can meet girls.
---- M. Cartmill

A magician pulls rabbits out of hats. An experimental psychologist pulls habits out of rats.
---- anonymous

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 Saturday March 27 2004

The Langauge Teacher

I found out via the Hwakang Journal Yahoo Group that The Language Teacher, a part of JALT, no longer requires membership to read their online journal. The JALT site is rather large and if you delve in deeply you will find links to other publications that are available online, both Special Interest Groups as well as non-JALT journals. Well worht the look.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Saturday Mar 27, 2004 at 09:15 AM
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 Friday March 26 2004

Spim

*update* Just saw this article on CNET Experts downplay ‘spim’ threat

While checking my RSS feeds an article from Wired News caught my attention: Spam Monster Eyes Another Target. The article talks about spim which is spam for IM (instant messenging).


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Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Mar 26, 2004 at 10:35 PM
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Noam Chomsky

Noam Chomsky has a new blog There are not many entries yet, but each entry has 75 to 200+ comments on it, many of them psychotic nutcases. Anyhow this should be an interesting read, though it looks to be primarily a political blog.

As Crooked Timber suggests it would have been more interesting if he was posting to Language Log.

I found this out via TEFL smiler who found it via Historiological Notes who found it via Crooked Timber.

*update* commenting has been removed. Can you blame him? 200 comments of foul language and anger on one post. I would disable it too.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Friday Mar 26, 2004 at 09:37 AM
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 Thursday March 25 2004

Students from China & the Chowder Heads

Last night I had two exchange students from mainland China join my class. This was very interesting for me as I have only taught Korean students for the last 7 years I no longer hear their accent, but with the two Chinese girls I could tell they were Chinese immediately. They were also very outgoing and very willing to do anything in English which of course is reflected in their command and control of English.

The best part of the day was at the end of the class when the girls came up to me and were very enthusiastic about coming to class and repeatedly told me how much they enjoyed the class. I also think that the other students enjoyed a different perspective and the fact that they had to communicate in English as the two Chinese students are still very weak in Korean only having arrived a few weeks ago.

On another note the chowder-heads have calmed down and are now helping the class along. Not sure exactly what happened, but I am satisfied regardless.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 25, 2004 at 12:34 PM
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online verb conjugator

The online verb conjugator is an interesting resource for the language learner. You can also download a desktop version but I wouldn’t recommend it as the language files all appear to be less than 10% complete. Maybe the shareware timelimited version (available from the same page) is better.

The online one is really good especially for conjugating English, I do wish that Korean was available but it is not.



Sean. inscribed these words of wisdom on Thursday Mar 25, 2004 at 12:22 AM
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