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Ohio Rep: 'Gestapo-like' tactics of government officials in Ohio Patriot Act (Dec 24 2005 15:43 GMT) - 23 Dec 2005 A bill known as the "Ohio Anti Terrorism Bill" has been passed by the house and Senate and is ready to be signed by Governor Bob Taft (R)... State Representative Ron Hood of Ashville is one of eight Republicans who went against the bill. He says that it resembles "Gestapo-like" tactics of government officials demanding to see documents. |
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Selamat Hari Natal (Dec 24 2005 15:43 GMT) - I thank all of my visitors and friends for for your support and encouragement that so many of you have given ever since this blog came into being around July of 2003. Even as we prepare to celebrate Christmas this... |
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LOUD VS SILENT. (Dec 24 2005 15:41 GMT) - My learned and musical friend zaelic made one of his typically informative comments on Thursday's post about ROMLEX, the Romani database, in the course of which he documented the Romani "terms for different kinds of fart. One for loud messy ones, and one for silent-but-deadlies." In Lovari, for instance, they are khaj (noiseless) and ril (audible). Since this has already been picked up by BatesLine ("A commenter to the entry notes that Romani has two words denoting different kinds of flatulence"), I thought I'd point out that this is an ancient Indo-European inheritance (the distinction, not the words themselves): Proto-Indo-European had *pezd- 'fart silently' and *perd- 'fart audibly. |
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ANCIENT GREEK HAIKU. (Dec 24 2005 15:41 GMT) - William Annis's Aoidoi.org, "dedicated to the study of ancient Greek poetry from the Epics to Anacreontics," has a page on Classical Greek Haiku, which presents, yes, haiku in Greek, with extensive discussion of technical details ("Also, I've used a genitive absolute phrase for the second line. The unspecific relationship between the main clause and the absolute phrase is quite suited to haiku."). He even has a Greek version of Basho's famous frog poem. |
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ROMLEX. (Dec 24 2005 15:41 GMT) - ROMLEX is a project to document the major Romani ("Gypsy") languages of Europe.ROMLEX is not a Romani dictionary in the usual sense. ROMLEX is a lexical database. It contains data that are representative of the variation in the lexicon of all Romani dialects, and offers almost complete coverage of the basic lexicon of the Romani language. At present, data are available online covering 25 different Romani dialects. |
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laboral (ca) (Dec 24 2005 15:41 GMT) - La SEAT vol acomiadar més de 600 treballador*s, t'ho miraràs de lluny? Els fets de SEAT: l'acord d'acomiadaments a Seat: l'acord de la vergonya ::: SEAT: |
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Kerstwens in animated gif format (Dec 24 2005 15:40 GMT) - Op de website minifesto kun je je eigen minifesto maken als een animated gif (bewegend plaatje). Alle medewerkers van DutchCowboys wensen iedereen een heel gelukkig kerstfeest en vooral een fantastisch... |
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