Lady White and Xu Xian ""Part One (Monday 14th of December 2009 05:14:01 AM)
The folk of Lady White and Xu Xian (bái niáng zǐ hé x" xiān
白娘子´许仙) is one of the Chinese four greatest folklores.
It reflects people’s recognition of love. The story goes ...
(more)Thirty-Six Strategies 3 (Tuesday 08th of December 2009 04:56:02 AM)
Kill with a Borrowed Sword
When you do not have the means to attack your enemy directly, then
attack using the strength of another. Trick an ally into attacking him, bribe an official to
turn traitor, or use the enemy's own strength against him.Warring ...
(more)Word of the year (Wednesday 25th of November 2009 09:54:00 AM)
It's a bit of an anticlimax this year. The Genootschap Onze Taal ('Society Our Language') has
chosen a word of the year again, and the best they could come up with was twitteren ('to
twitter'/'to tweet' as in posting tweets on Twitter). In a way ...
(more)Fancy Lantern (Friday 20th of November 2009 04:34:00 AM)
Fancy lanterns (d"ng cǎi 灯彩), also called Colored Lamps (huā
d"ng 花灯), are special handicraft product of Chinese tradition which are
widely used for decorations on festivals and holidays, weddings and other ...
(more)Fair for Millionaires Flops (Monday 16th of November 2009 06:13:00 AM)
What if they held a millionaire fair and no one came?
That is pretty much
what happened to the seventh annual Millionaire Fair in Moscow over the weekend.
...
(more)Recipes for Prevent HIN1 Flu (Tuesday 10th of November 2009 03:03:00 AM)
Until recently, China has been fairly sheltered from bad news associated with the H1N1 flu
virus. But since early October, when the country reported its first H1N1 death, temperatures
have dropped and H1N1 cases are reportedly rising steeply, so a corresponding ...
(more)More H1N1 cases stoking public fears in China (Wednesday 04th of November 2009 08:11:00 AM)
In October, the H1N1 flu pandemic killed seven people on the Chinese mainland, stoking the
public's fears, and leading them to wonder what the death toll of the disease will be.Transfer
from: http://www.easy-mandarin.cn
A multitude of comments posted ...
(more)Dogs As Intelligent As Average Two-Year-Old Children (Monday 10th of August 2009 02:15:01 PM)
Ponca City, We love you writes "The Telegraph reports that researchers using tests at first
designed to demonstrate the third edition by the editors of the american heritage®
dictionary. copyright © 2003 of language, pre-language and basic arithmetic ...
(more)Beautyful Thailand. (Wednesday 05th of August 2009 03:38:00 AM)
Thailand
is a beautiful country. Many attractions. Of the rich beauty of
natural
resources. If you have the opportunity to travel to Thailand Do not
forget to visit
it throughout the trip. And can not live without Is to look at the Thai ...
(more)Should I learn another language if I am going to get a position dealing with public relations or marketing? (Sunday 07th of June 2009 06:07:42 AM)
Right now I'm in college studying marketing, then after that I hope to get my master's studying
public relations. Would it be beneficial to take a few classes and study up on a new language,
or would it not really matter at all?well that is ...
(more)Hope For Multi-Language Programming? (Saturday 28th of February 2009 06:15:01 AM)
Chthonicdaemon writes "I have been using Linux as my primary implying 'natural' (not human for
more than ten years. In this time, I have absorbed all the lore round the Unix Way —
small programs doing one thing well, communicating via text and all ...
(more)Another way of learning English (Tuesday 10th of February 2009 12:42:00 PM)
Even here on JournalHome I have received several compliments about my usually half decent
English. I've learned it mainly thru years of writing letters to people in faraway places. My
sister however hardly made an effort, but she is getting a lot of compliments ...
(more)Rhetoric of Non Issues (Wednesday 21st of January 2009 05:11:01 PM)
Sometimes i wonder , do we as a nation have any thing of substance to talk about, fight about
or stand up for??Already plagued by issues of terrorism, joblessness, corruption, bad roads,
pollution etc, i am surprised to be constantly inundated with non ...
(more)Word of the year (Wednesday 17th of December 2008 12:34:00 PM)
*TO THOSE WHO ENTER THRU THE JH FRONT PAGE: MY XMAS PLAYLIST WILL START AUTOMATICALLY*A word of
the year has been chosen in the Netherlands. The winner is "swaffelen". I really
don't know if this word has its origins in another language, or ...
(more)Best Introduction To Programming For Bright 11-14-Year-Olds? (Thursday 11th of December 2008 10:00:02 AM)
Firthisaword writes "I will be coaching an enrichment robotics course to 11-14 year old gifted
delivery in the Spring. It is meant as an introduction to very basic data processing paradigms
(conditions, variables, loops, etc.), but the kids will invariably ...
(more)Komkommertijd (Saturday 30th of August 2008 09:23:00 AM)
Here's a Dutch word for you all. I know I have done little blogging this past summer, but I am
back now, and it's all down to this one word: "komkommertijd." It literally
translates as "cucumber season", or if you wish to be really ...
(more)Can anyone help me by checking any language mistakes? (Tuesday 08th of July 2008 07:02:53 AM)
Abstract
The main purpose of the Public Administration is to implement the government
politics. While accomplishing the public duty the administrator practises administrative acts
as a way of externalizing and demonstration of the state function. However, ...
(more)Interview With Author of the First Spoof Language (Saturday 05th of July 2008 04:10:08 AM)
An unnamed reader brings us Computerworld's parley with Don Woods, one of the creators of
Compiler discourse With No Pronounceable Acronym (INTERCAL). INTERCAL and its testimony were
created in 1972 as a parody of that era's languages and instruction ...
(more)Google Opens Up (Some) Search Algorithms (Sunday 25th of May 2008 07:26:16 AM)
Overmars writes "After years of closely guarding the formula for its search algorithms, Google
is opening up a little. The search engine company has kept its search formula a closely guarded
secret for two reasons: rivalry and to prevent abuse, said Udi ...
(more)Holland v the Netherlands (Wednesday 16th of April 2008 12:33:00 PM)
A small item in one of the papers I read every day: the TV show Holland's Got Talent doesn't
get the high number of viewers they sort of expect. Why? Because of its name, and strangely not
because of the poor quality of the show. ...
(more)Paintings of Italian Artist - Lucio Salvatore (Thursday 10th of April 2008 12:00:00 AM)
LANGUAGEThis series of pictures is a meditation on the origins of Thought and its fundamental
words whose interpretations, that havechanged through the different Epochs, have and will
always determine the destiny of every civilization. ...
(more)Words (Thursday 14th of February 2008 05:39:00 AM)
Salute the past, Live in the present, Ready for the futureWords are always stronger than any
Goeiemoggel (Friday 14th of December 2007 01:09:00 PM)
That's the new way of saying Good Morning in Dutch. It's all the hype these days. The
expression was coined in a cellphone commercial. It's a pretty funny commercial, about a fish
transport business that has adapted completely to the many spelling errors ...
(more)The Dutch language (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 10:18:00 AM)
I have already devoted some entries to the English language, and the American variety, and
wasn't always positive. Fairness dictates that I should also write something about my own
language, which is of course Dutch. Now, I don't want you to order a Dutch ...
(more)Body Language for Lovers (Saturday 22nd of September 2007 02:00:00 PM)
Are you sending the right signals to your undeveloped mates? proper to the latest research, 99
percent of fascination is really nonverbal communication. Anthropologist David Givens provides
a practical guide to the body language of seduction in his new ...
(more)Body Language for Lovers (Monday 10th of September 2007 02:00:00 PM)
Are you sending the right signals to your possible mates? gospel to the latest research, 99
percent of courting is genuinely nonverbal communication. Anthropologist David Givens provides
a practical guide to the body language of seduction in his new book, ...
(more)Programmer's Language-Aware Spell Checker? (Tuesday 04th of September 2007 11:09:09 PM)
Jerry Asher writes "Not all of my coworkers are careful about spelling errors. Sometimes this
causes real embarrassment as spelling errors creep into software interfaces. Does anyone know
of spell checkers for programming languages? I don't want a text ...
(more)The prettiest word (Tuesday 31st of July 2007 12:28:00 PM)
Last night I spent about an hour flipping thru the channels, and I came across a gameshow, De
Canvascrack, on Belgian TV. I didn't watch much of it, but one question stood out for me. An
association calling themselves 'Onze Taal' ('Our Language') have ...
(more)Silly expressions (Monday 16th of July 2007 12:47:00 PM)
Another entry about American English, about the use of the word community. I used to think it
was funny when the Blues Brothers spoke of the "Illinois Law Enforcement Community",
but I keep hearing this word used in the same sense in ever sillier ...
(more)A comment on the "World Citizen's Guide" (Monday 09th of July 2007 03:26:00 PM)
Two entries ago, I mentioned a thing called the 'World Citizen's Guide' (HTML version), which
is a publication of an organization calling itself "Business for Diplomatic Action",
in cooperation with the State Department. I don't know how American's ...
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