So there's this bridge that has an abnormally low clearance, and there are lots of signs saying so on the road leading to it, but lots of trucks still crash into it. Riveting. [HT Andrew]
Can you imagine watching one of Shakespeare's plays being performed in its original English pronunciation? So cool.
The two-cow analogy series, as applied to the Middle East. [HT Suzanne]
Two amazing survival stories from Zion National Park. First, some climbers got caught in a flash flood. Second, a climber fell off a 100-foot cliff as his wife and friends looked on. [HT Margaret, the wife of the guy who fell off the cliff]
What DOES the fox say? [HT Liz]
Most of the world's tallest buildings in the world are cheating. (But not the Burj Khalifa. Not really, anyway.)
I haven't observed all of these smart language mistakes in person, but this was a very interesting read about childhood language development. [HT Susanne]
Here are the top 20 books you only pretend to have read. Seriously, you guys haven't actually read Pride and Prejudice?? [HT Jen]
I'm sure you've all seen this video of a man waking up from surgery and seeing his wife again, for the first time. I really hope it's real, because it is adorable (s-bomb warning about halfway through).
So, um, Putin had an op-ed in the NYTimes. Yeah. But here is your requisite grain of salt.
That dialect survey from last week, last year, five years ago, and ten years ago is never going away: more on that odd "coming with" construction.
Can you imagine watching one of Shakespeare's plays being performed in its original English pronunciation? So cool.
The two-cow analogy series, as applied to the Middle East. [HT Suzanne]
Two amazing survival stories from Zion National Park. First, some climbers got caught in a flash flood. Second, a climber fell off a 100-foot cliff as his wife and friends looked on. [HT Margaret, the wife of the guy who fell off the cliff]
What DOES the fox say? [HT Liz]
Most of the world's tallest buildings in the world are cheating. (But not the Burj Khalifa. Not really, anyway.)
I haven't observed all of these smart language mistakes in person, but this was a very interesting read about childhood language development. [HT Susanne]
Here are the top 20 books you only pretend to have read. Seriously, you guys haven't actually read Pride and Prejudice?? [HT Jen]
I'm sure you've all seen this video of a man waking up from surgery and seeing his wife again, for the first time. I really hope it's real, because it is adorable (s-bomb warning about halfway through).
So, um, Putin had an op-ed in the NYTimes. Yeah. But here is your requisite grain of salt.
That dialect survey from last week, last year, five years ago, and ten years ago is never going away: more on that odd "coming with" construction.