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Comment on Of Esperanto and Alfa Romeos by David

David — Mon, 22 Dec 2008 17:19:07 +0000

For years I was involved in online Constructed Languages groups. There’s a good number of them. I worked on my own for a while, a vaguely proto-western-semetic thing. Highly agglutinating based on tri-consonant roots, though like ancient Hebrew it has no vowel notations.

Theoretically it was supposed to be antideluvian. Someday when I get back to writing novels, I’ll crack it out again and work on it.

Comment on Of Esperanto and Alfa Romeos by Lazarus

Lazarus — Sat, 20 Dec 2008 00:52:22 +0000

You’re a better man than I. As much as I admire the inherent linguistic egalitarianism of Lojban, it looks too much like Hindi crossed with Swahili and infused with Klingon for me to want to tackle it. Esperanto may be too Eurocentric by modern standards, but it’s a lot easier for me to wrap my brain around.

Then again, Mandarin may end up being the language of choice in this century. Who knows?

Comment on Of Esperanto and Alfa Romeos by David

David — Fri, 19 Dec 2008 23:40:15 +0000

I’ve always been a fan of Lojban myself, or my own constructed languages.

Comment on Standing on the precipice by A chill wind « The Lazarus File

A chill wind « The Lazarus File — Fri, 10 Oct 2008 03:48:34 +0000

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Comment on Profile of a voter by Scott

Scott — Thu, 09 Oct 2008 07:05:50 +0000

Agreed.

Comment on Debate postscript by mike

mike — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 19:48:27 +0000

Yeah, I’d definately be freaked out. Not only is she the first woman VP candidate on the Republican ticket, I’m pretty sure she’s also the first to ever give a “shout-out” during a national debate. And the whole “wink-and-wrinkle-the-nose” bit left me wondering if this was the national VP debate or a re-run of Bewitched. I may already be freaked out…

Comment on Bankers of the world, unite! by Mike

Mike — Wed, 24 Sep 2008 00:08:44 +0000

According to the United States Constitution, Article I Section 9, Paragraph 7: “http://www.usconstitution.net/xconst_A1Sec9.html”

No money shall be drawn from the treasury, but in consequence of appropriations made by law; and a regular statement and account of receipts and expenditures of all public money shall be published from time to time.

So it would seem that the recent AIG bailout was illegal. And the current proposed bail out plan would require an Amendment to the Constitution to be legal. But then again, the current Administration has never appeared to be bound by piddly little things like the Constitution.

Comment on False choices by christianliberal

christianliberal — Wed, 10 Sep 2008 03:16:34 +0000

Great analysis. Thanks!

Palin is Pro-War! She calls it “a task from God.”
This mixing of God and war I find very sad.
And it’s costing us Hundreds of Billions of Dollars.

Check it out:

Comment on Signposts along the way by On Baha’i Declaration Cards: On the way out in favor of registration for membership | Baha'i Views

Tue, 02 Sep 2008 01:36:45 +0000

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Comment on Signposts along the way by On Being On and Off the Rolls: Religious Community Membership | Baha'i Views

Mon, 01 Sep 2008 08:11:22 +0000

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