Archive for September, 2008
Slacking away
to slack -/slæk/: to be remiss; shirk one’s duty or part. Man, I’ve been really slacking here at Memhr.org I’ve even forgot to update the WOTW! Bear with me people. I know you are just hungry for new Tigrigna lessons, but I have quite a bit of work (in the real world) coming up that [...]
September 22, 2008
Tags: slacker, website Posted in: Miscellaneous, website update 
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Heaven in four easy steps.
1. Move to Canada. 2. Go to your local Tim Hortons and purchase a half coffee/hot chocolate with 2 cream. 3. Drink it. 4. Tell God I like his work, but next time add more blue.
September 12, 2008
Tags: timmies Posted in: Miscellaneous No Comments
New on the Eritrean dictionary scene…
After months of delay, Asmarino.com has now completed its metamorphosis to become Delina.com. Asmarino.com is one of the oldest Eritrean community websites still running (the other is Dehai.org). It is based in the US, completely independent and serves as a forum for those Eritreans who oppose the Eritrean government or it’s politics. It’s also multilingual [...]
September 11, 2008
Tags: afar, amharic, Arabic, Asmarino.com, blin, Delina.org, dictionary, Ge'ez, Kunama, Tigre, tigrinya Posted in: blogoshpere, Eritrea, language, Linguistics No Comments
US politics, kool-aid, Obama and a little linguistics
I assure you that this post is about linguistics just as much as it is about American politics. “…the students go and, sort of, drink the kool-aid of a wonderful speech…” This short quote is from Pennsylvania Governor Ed Rendell who was trying to convince a group of college students to support Hillary Clinton as [...]
September 1, 2008
Tags: Clinton, kool-aid, meme, Obama Posted in: Linguistics, world events No Comments
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