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  • Voynich Manuscript
    Next part of The Pocketwatch is up Clues. I had wanted to do some stuff in the future before moving on but I could not...

  • Pattern Flux
    Probably because of the chaotic nature of my speech I tend to not only shift accents from time to time but also shift expressions in my speech as...

  • Mathematical Impossibility
    I have today put up not one but two parts for Red Ice First Craft and Polonium Black. Thes...

  • Desereted
    One of the things specific to LDS culture and one of the things I forgot about by the time I started doing linguistic studies was an attempt duri...

  • People are Deaf
    While I didnt know that it was a Yamaha product until today Ive known about Vocaloidfor a l...

  • Crash Review
    I started going through the Pimsleur course today for Japanese. Since I didnt know what they would cover in the course I decided to just start fro...

  • Cloaked
    As of right now most of AnacondaSoftware is now closed leaving just the forum. I had a security issue come up with my hosting account and so in t...

  • Semi-machinated
    A new part of Red Ice is now posted. And Im not sure how exactly to pronounce the name to be honest with you its been ages since I did any stu...

  • ?!
    This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...

  • ?!
    This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...

  • Eh?
    Its a common joke that Canadians often use Eh at the end of their sentences and if youre talking with them you should as well to fit in. In r...

  • Intensive Intent
    Ive noticed recently a trend of improper expression use. Particularly the expression for all intents and purposes. For some reason I guess a nu...

  • AIM Talk
    So I just remembered Sony Ericsson phones have builtin functions for posting photographs onto Googles Blogger service. I had started setting it u...

  • Pronounced
    English is a rather strange language. It is filled with many different language influences and it is full of conflicting grammatical rules. It is ...

  • Double Vision
    One of the things that is supposed to be avoided in writing and spellcheckers freak out over all the time is words written twice. The obvious rea...

  • A short guide to lolcats
    Originating in the depths of the internet on a day of the week known as Caturday now you can see the lo...

  • Déjà Vowel
    I thought I had talked about this once before but apparently I havent. Also it seems Google isnt indexing anything for the search box Ill loo...

  • Constant/Consonant
    The other day in work a coworker was making a joke about another one not a derogatory joke mind you a joke that she often makes about herself....

  • Interpersonal
    One of the lesser seen problems of Englishs pronouns a problem not as glaring as our lack of a singular genderneutral pronoun is the fact tha...

  • sRc
    Since I accidentally dropped it on the Gentoo forums and its a part of my Steam tag I guess Ill explain my alias name sRc.To do t...

  • Um, lot?
    Some words we use in common day to day speech arent actually words in the English language they are loanwords. Some of these can be easily recogn...

  • Caution: English Construction Next 5 Miles
    At my work theres a guy who often mispronounces the names of things. Usually its nothing to bother with but occasionally some unusual words are cr...

  • Bilingual Illiterate
    Writing Skewed occasionally presents an unusual problem.Skewed takes place in Japan and its characters are with a couple exceptions ...

  • Emphasis Added
    As a general rule English follows a pattern of emphasizing every other syllable. Occasionally one and two syllable words in succession will swap t...

  • ?!
    This was actually shown to me a few weeks ago and I had intended to write about it then but I didnt and it got passed over for a while.b...

  • Then There Was Than
    As if a sign of how prevalent mistakes are in our language the HowTo of the Day a few days ago was a hrefhttpwww.wikihow.comUseThanandT...

  • Buried Treasure
    In High School I kept a notebook for stuff related to the AnacondaSoftware title Spiral Island. This is a white notebook with a sheet slid in the...

  • Too Late, Can't Think
    Im in training all this week from 3PM to 1130PM.On normal days I go to bed at the time Im just getting home.So I haven...

  • Listen To What I'm Thinking
    Text is plain. Emotions cant be portrayed very well with text alone especially in just speech text. Forums email and chats are where these probl...

  • Description and Direction
    Most of the time I plan out things in a script format. I have stories told by the characters with conversations between characters explaining the ...

  • Unfamiliar Words
    I didnt have much in the way of spelling mistakes to work with the last couple of days and I didnt want to go back and look for them. The real i...

  • Geek's a Verb?
    So being that its Memorial Day its kinda slow around work. Not as slow as say Thanksgiving or Christmas would be but it is slower than usual. Th...