Tuesday, 22 November 2022
Category: Language
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Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de Janeiro
Read More: Sabbatical 2012 [Day 13-16] Rio de JaneiroTravel Travel to Rio de Janeiro was done with pretty much no problems. LAN was a pretty decent no-frills airline. They had the same Boeing model that we flew on AA, but it was much nicer inside. The flight in was interesting – we had to circle around the city a few times before landing.…
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Sabbatical [Day 5] Skiing with Brazillians
Read More: Sabbatical [Day 5] Skiing with BrazilliansLast night, wandering around for probably about an hour trying to find a place to eat (Santiago is in dire need of Yelp), Alex and I stumbled across a Ski trip place. We had planned on going on a ski trip – which, it turns out, would be my first time ever really skiing. On…
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(Not So) Foreign Accents
Read More: (Not So) Foreign AccentsSo I’m back in Ohio for the holidays. In a coffee shop. There is a table to my right, with two older women and an Amish man seated. They are speaking. I cannot understand them. Dutch? The women are not dressed as Amish, and it would be odd for them to be speaking Amish Dutch.…
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International Dvorak Layout
Read More: International Dvorak LayoutBefore my study abroad in Spain, I realized that I was going to be doing quite a bit of writing en español, and that this was going to require some new keyboard adjusting, since I didn’t feel like doing the alt-01249 key combinations to get characters like ñ € ó ç º ü ¡ ¿,…