Lost in translation

Here’s a good example of how your words may not always convey what you intend them to convey: The video clip’s actually in French, but that’s not the cause of the “mis-translation”. The secret of Brokebank Mountain.

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Roundup August 26th, 2007

From a comment Larry left, I discovered his blog, and from there this page of resources for students. An impressive list, although there are lots more resources than student-produced pages. One of the links was to Dandelife “a social biography network”. One of the stories I clicked on at random referred to sleep apnea and [...]

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When people turn against people…

Human beings killed three other human beings on Wednesday northwest of Baghdad. In Iraq on Wednesday, major violence continued against human beings and the human beings guarding them. Human beings detonated a car bomb in the southern Baghdad district of Saidiya, which killed eight human beings, and wounded 27. In Iskandariya south of Baghdad, human [...]

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As I was saying

Not exactly the point I was making just the other day…but close, although I think I said it better! Read the whole thing at Vanity Press.

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Blogging to broaden your perspective

Karl Fisch responded to my post on his impressive presentation “Did You Know?” and it raised an issue I’ve been wanting to write about. But first, go see the Doonesbury cartoon for Sunday, March 4th 2007. Are you back? OK. Karl writes As far as the “nationalistic” piece, that was not the intent – please [...]

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The Education Debate

Dan Meyer posted a thoughtful piece after watching Freedom Writers, an(other) inspirational school movie. I’m unable to post comments on Dan’s blog for some reason, so I’m posting my comment here. Quick update: IMDB offers quotes from the movie, including this: Andre: It’s the dumb class cuz. It means you too dumb.Jamal: Man, say it [...]

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