Stupid Motivational Tricks / Bemsha Swing

 I guess I could look up linguistic universals and find out what linguists think they might be.  Maybe negation, words for spatial and tempo...

Chinese lessons I have done already seem tedious to repeat, but beginning a new lessons seems alien. I make myself drill the old material fo...

 I remember hearing that Jesse Jackson was at Stanford leading a chant of protesters saying "hey ho hey ho / Western Civ has got to go....

 I do know a few more things: two words of negation, mei and bu. Where to place these words. Chang chang will be frequently, so bu chang wil...

 I like Chinese grammar. So far, I know some basic word order, three ways of asking questions.  Putting ma as particle at the end. Using hai...

 I was thinking of those amazon reviews that say "the book came in bad condition." They seem to miss the point of a book review, o...

What if some form of strong determinism were true?  That is to say, the course of events is determined by some primeval event, and everythin...