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Miscellaneous

• 02.11.09
  Pipe organ = bad guys
  Alexander Nevsky, Miscellaneous, Movies, Sergei Eisenstein (1)

  On my ride home from work tonight, I listened to some of the book of Luke from the Russian bible I downloaded from the Faith Comes by Hearing site. Occasionally I listen to it while exercising on our elliptical machine, usually with a printed version of Russian and English to study alongside. Sometimes it takes me an entire 20- or 30-minute session to work my way through one chapter. Though when there's a Big Ten basketball game on TV, I usually watch that while exercising instead of working on Russian. But when there's no game on TV, I'll work on ...
  
  
• 02.10.09
  ASL vs Russian Sign Language
  Miscellaneous, Movies (0)

  I did make myself finish watching Strana glukhikh last night. It was not the ending I expected! But I got to wondering how Russian Sign Language relates to American Sign Language. Where is it in the taxonomy of sign languages? I don't know any sign languages myself -- I need the subtitles -- but I'm curious about things like that. I didn't find an answer to my question, but I did find this web page that tells about a Russian Sign Language/American Sign Language translator program. And some Russian Sign Language is used in the US: In ...
  
  
• 07.04.07
  A multi-lingual, English-as-Official-Language society
  Miscellaneous (0)

  Paul Greenberg writes: I'm all for the wonderful mosaic of cultures in this country - social, religious, linguistic, culinary and every other kind in this country of countries. Each contributes something to the way we all see things, think about things. We learn from each other. But here there is room for only one, indivisible, unhyphenated civic culture. A civic and civil culture that gives us a common tongue to argue in, and common ground to stand on. Note that having English as the one official language of this country, the language used for government work, would be quite compatible with our ...
  
  

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