Saturday, September 20, 2014

English is so weird!

English is so weird!  Consider this sentence:
I don't have to leave now.
Then this one:
I don't have a reason to leave now.
Did you notice the word “have” is pronounced differently in these two uses?

Much more here, including other strange examples like this...

This is the kind of job that could bring me out of retirement!

This is the kind of job that could bring me out of retirement!

The most useless chemical elements...

The most useless chemical elements...  More interesting than it sounds :)

“Uncertainty is a prime mover and motivator of science and must be faced head-on.”

“Uncertainty is a prime mover and motivator of science and must be faced head-on.”  That's from an excellent and sober op-ed piece by Stephen Koonin in today's Wall Street Journal.  It's an impassioned plea by a scientist for climate scientists to act like scientists, and not ideologues – and it's especially powerful considering the source: a former Obama administration official (the undersecretary for science in the Energy Department)...

Russia captures Lithuanian ship...

Russia captures Lithuanian ship...  Not good...

The ISIS Crisis...

The ISIS Crisis...  Remy...
We could send the IRS's top IT guy.
Heh...