Posts by Martin Lindberg
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Possibly relevant:
SF Reading Protocol by Jo Walton
Edit: Made the terrible mistake of using SF and Science Fiction interchangeably.
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..bombs raining on my head
Oh man! How about that Wellington weather?
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the US might have free speech...
With free speech there is at least the possibility of public debate wrt government policy. Whether this in the end leads to a policy that you or I may find acceptable is another story.
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Great! Now I don't get to choose between pest and cholera anymore. I have to choose between China and America.
This is just silly.
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I really enjoyed James Wood's story on Paul Auster. As much as I enjoy reading Auster's books, they do lend themselves to parody.
Interestingly, the dystopian story by Helen Simpson reminded me directly of Paul Auster's In the Country of Last Things, where he uses the same technique of a letter or diary found, but makes a full meal out of it.
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I also recall another really good Scandinavian childrens' book series, but the name escapes me - about a bunch of kids living on neighbouring farms?
The Six Bullerby Children or The Children of Noisy Village (Barnen i Bullerbyn). Also by Astrid Lindgren who wrote the Pippi books.
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Why? When you have no expectations you can't be disappointed
True. Most of the time I don't hate myself enough to care about their editorials. But when they pick up on something I happen to care about it's difficult to not be disappointed by the tone and the underlying hate/distrust/disrespect of teachers and principals. (Disclaimer: I am not a teacher, but used to be one a long time ago. Some of my best friends are teachers.)
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Maenwhile, today's editorial says that teachers must learn to obey the Government's orders. No, seriously; that's the actual title of it.
I don't think that editorial could be more condescending if it tried.
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Huh. I was not aware that 'smörgåsbord' has an umlaut. (Or, indeed, one of those circle-thingies.)
I'm hoping it won't turn out to be one of those occasions where you live to regret cutting and pasting from Wikipaedia. My spelling sucks, blows and pees on the carpet -- what can I say? :)
Nope, smörgåsbord is correct. Although technically I don't believe ö is considered an o with an umlaut as it's a character in its own right in Swedish and a few other Scandinavian languages. Just like å and ä.
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Now most teachers don't know how to use apostraphes and have Forest Gumpesque intelligence.
Is that so?