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I love stories…

For me, the best stories are the ones that are recounted with vivid detail, with interesting characters and colourful commentary. If it’s non-fiction, I like a strict adherence to realism; if it’s fiction I enjoy the total break of realism into creative fantasy or surrealism. I’m a very fickle person. However, stories revolving around a [...]

January 20, 2009 Tags: story, travel Posted in: Eritrea No Comments

Dictionary fun

I’ve almost finished adding a few more terms to the English/Tigrigna dictionary. It seems that the totals are 4,062 for the English one and 5,058 for the Tigrinya side. Still small, but growing!

January 19, 2009 Tags: dictionary, Tigrigna, website Posted in: Tigrigna, website update 2 Comments

Word of the week

ቤተ ትምህርቲ – school

January 13, 2009 Tags: WOTW Posted in: WOTW No Comments

Word of the week

ደለየ – need, want, desire

January 2, 2009 Tags: WOTW Posted in: WOTW No Comments

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