The title of this post is taken from actual packaging for a steam iron. Turns out that not only are there lots of silly warnings on tags, packages and signs around the world, but now there’s an actual organization whose mission it is to campaign against such “gobbledygook.” They call themselves the Plain English Campaign …
Monthly Archive: January 2009
Jan
24
Word Clouds Are Cool
This is a word cloud I created of my last post, Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing. Scroll down for an explanation about how it works. What is going on here? What are you looking at? Basically you’re seeing a visual representation of my last post. The biggest words in the cloud are the words that …
Jan
23
Tell the Truth, Expect Nothing
I’m reading Randy Pausch’s, The Last Lecture and enjoying it. If you don’t know the story, Pausch–a computer science professor, husband, and father of three very young kids–had been diagnosed with pancreatic cancer. He was dying. His “Last Lecture” wasn’t about dying, however, but about how to live. Then he wrote a book. It’s a …
Jan
23
Move in this direction
Found this over at Seth’s.
Jan
21
Fershizzle yo! wateva
For language teachers trying to incorporate Web 2.0 and yet keep their sanity.
Jan
21
Parent Communication Revisited
The other day I posted an exchange I had with a parent about farting. Today I follow that up with another interesting, though not nearly as outrageous exchange. One thing to note this time around is that although I emailed Dad’s email address (like last time), Mom was the one who replied. There is a …
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