Txtng: The Gr8 Db8
by David Crystal
To naysayers of text messaging, who fret that the thumb-twisting communication technique stunts literacy and impoverishes the language, David Crystal might ask, is LOL really so different from RIP?
In sentiment, certainly, but in impact on language and learning, not at all, Crystal would say. In this compact volume — roughly the size of six iPhones — Crystal offers a thorough study of text messaging….
Amy Chua has lived all across the country — growing up in the Midwest and on the West Coast, teaching in the South, and attending school and currently living in the Northeast, with her husband, two daughters, and two Samoyeds. She seems to have found her home, in an eccentric house in New Haven with “faces carved into columns.”
“This is going to sound terrible,” she said jokingly, “but I like the East Coast. I like the pace. It’s more suited to my personality.”
They may have used corpses to fill moats and poured molten silver into the eyes and ears of their enemies, but Amy Chua still thinks the Mongols were a tolerant people, and that their tolerance led to the supremacy of their empire.
“I know what you’re thinking,” she joked with the crowd at The Actors’ Gang in Culver City. “This woman thinks the Mongols were tolerant?”
Chua, a Yale Law School professor, explained herself
Mirror of the Arab World: Lebanon in Conflict
by Sandra Mackey
The villains of the postcolonial world are the mapmakers, and Sandra Mackey doesn’t entirely spare them. About one-fifth of the way into her strongly detailed but not sprawling story of Lebanon’s role in the Arab world….
by Wallace Stevens
All night I sat reading a book,
Sat reading as if in a book
Of sombre pages.
It was autumn and falling stars
Covered the shriveled forms
Crouched in the moonlight.
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