One-upmanship
Just rereading a chapter in Peter Wilberg’s great book, One to One, entitled “Your basic attitude – one-upmanship?” Is this you?
Question: Can you learn from a robot?
http://annehodgson.de/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/chatbot.mp3Podcast: Play in new window | DownloadI had great fun last week, exploring what it is like to talk to a chatbot. It was Shelly Terrell who originally put me up to it, advising me when I was gathering ideas for a Spotlight Magazine article edited and coauthored by Jo Westcombe on ways English learners […]
Grammar guru: since I have come/ since I came?
Last week things were very clear: at the age of 42 (92%, 23 Votes) in the age of 42 (8%, 2 Votes) However, Neal Chambers said that the Japanese have trouble with this, too, as there is only one particle in Japanese. (Comment) This week, the Grammar guru asks which one of these is correct: […]
Stevie Wonder: Superstition
Friday the thirteenth reminds me of the first record I ever bought, Stevie Wonder’s Talking Book. It was 1973, I was 11 and had just started babysitting, charging 50 cents an hour. I really liked children, playing puppet theater, “let’s pretend” games and going places with them, and learned early on that it’s relatively easy […]
The decade
This is the decade according to Newsweek. Tell them what they missed! Green became cool Privacy became old-fashioned Wikipedia replaced the library …
Bhutis Blogwichteln!
Freu, Freu! Frau Bhuti is hosting this year’s Secret Santa blogs. Blogwichteln is guest-blogging on someone else’s blog secretly and them never figuring out who you are! So much fun. Last year the most charming blogger you could ever wish for gave me a delightful entry. Herr Hollemann was running the show, but he’s moved […]
Their wine + Bottle of wine
Siri Svegler’s “Their Wine / Not Worth it” makes a good case for cultivated wine-drinking habits (though she does say it’s also about addiction). I’m pairing it up with that marvellous old hobo song by Tom Paxton, “Bottle of wine, fruit of the vine”. Siri Svegler: Their wine (lyrics) I try to break through that […]
