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...ever find yourself unintentionally speaking these invented languages in your daily life? I definitely had a little bit of that when I can back from one of the Esperanto conferences. I had gotten very used to these little set phrases like jes, the Esperanto word for "yes." I would be ordering a sandwich at the counter, and the cashier would ask, "Do you want a bag for that?" I'd say, "Jes," with this weird pronunciation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Arika Okrent: Speaking Klingon | 5/18/2009 | See Source »

Admittedly, the acting was pretty good. FlyBy didn't find itself squirming with every line, and that one tall dude was even kinda cute. But the writers of Ivory Tower might need to rethink their plays on verbal titillation: the shoddy attempts at double-entendre ranged from "You only play with your balls when you're worked up" to "Is that a banana in your pants? Because I will peel it for you" to "C'mon girl, give me your biochemical desires." Now we just want to hurl...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: Harvard Drama Never Seemed So Real | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...Jewish Studies 170. Job and the Problem of Suffering — "Why did I not perish at birth, and die as I came from the womb? Why were there knees to receive me and breasts that I might be nursed?" What a downer. Enroll to find the answer to this question and more depressing ones from...

Author: By Esther I. Yi | Title: New Courses, New You | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...their location—a claim founded on more than a lazy reaction to a 15-minute walk. The recent budget cuts only heighten existing shortcomings, so that the number of holes in services available for Quad students has now approached the point of absurdity. Students may soon find themselves without cell-phone reception, unable to call the escort service that would have replaced the shuttle that isn’t there, to take them to a library that isn’t available nearby...

Author: By Olivia M. Goldhill and James K. Mcauley | Title: Separate but Unequal | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

...budget-cut initiative and is trying to incorporate community feedback, even streamlining the process of recognizing the best ideas. Its website asks the MIT community to post suggestions to the “Idea Bank” and allows others to view these responses and rate the ones they find “particularly innovative and practicable.” Harvard should offer a similar forum to encourage the most creative, realistic, and responsible solutions possible...

Author: By Tessa K. Lyons-laing and Logan R. Ury | Title: Stranded by the River | 5/17/2009 | See Source »

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