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Author Archives: susan
Moving Métro
One difference between the Paris Métro and the subway in New York City is that the doors of the métro do not automatically open. On the older cars, there is a little latch that you have to flip to get the door to open, and on the newer cars there is a button you press. [...]
Plus fast!
I noticed an ad in the métro claiming that some… product (I don’t recall what it was) was in fact “faster!” (than other competing products, I assume). What interested me was the fact that the phrase in French, “plus vite” (literally more fast), could be iconically abbreviated by swapping in the + sign for the [...]
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Updates coming soon…
I’m changing things around behind the scenes, so hopefully I’ll start providing more “content” here soon, and hopefully the impending visual alterations will be welcome.
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Please be advised:
Please be advised: I am the friend of the stomach!
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New Look
I’ve spent a bit of time changing around how things look, to reflect the fact that I’m now in Paris. I have so much to write about, but for now, I leave you with CHEESE. That is all.
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bahhh… oui!
I will be moving to Paris this summer, and my excitement about this move can be explained by my belief that my life there will be something along the lines of this: (hat tip to res.cogitans)
Are names rigid designators?
On Mount Desert Island in Maine, people refer to roads with the definite article. So what the street sign says is “Crooked Road” might be mentioned in a sentence as “He lives on the Crooked Road.” This is likely to be how many roads originally got their names, so Birmingham Road in Coventry used to [...]
Culinary automata