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I asked you a question and you have answered it. Your reaction to this natural shock was to sharpen your hatred towards things you already hated. I will answer what you asked me in return. (1) yes (2) no.

To: Sled teams 2 and 4 The Grand Shaman is missing in Sector 13 and my dogs can't go, they haven't had a day off since the guys decided to race each other home after Religious Study Group three weeks ago and let them all loose. Go get him back but tell him this is the last time. This is just feeding the unrest among the younger membership and everybody really who knows why he is missing, he can't even find his own way back from his aunt's place and he is the Supreme Cartographer. Supreme my mukluk. Uh, Confidential, eh? Nanook having to do everything as usual

Honestly Richard, is this how you react to having escaped a devastating natural phenomenon. One might be tempted to feed you into Ba'al's fiery maw.Overripe though you might be.

Philip, my Gmail does not want to do anything for me, it just keeps saying it is loading, sorry it was blank. Probably reflecting the contents of my mind all too accurately. So I am answering here. Good deal on the discount eh? A reminder that you cannot start reading Hugo until you finish your Renault chapter. There will be a test! a la prochaine, C crunch...oh NO, nooo... Just kidding.

On reading in French - usually the book has a whole different "feel" in French than in English. But I found 3 who felt the same in both -obviously with excellent translations, Mme Bovary, En Attendant Godot, and Cartes Sur la Table. The last was an Agatha Christie, obviously English-French but same principle. I wonder how Wodehouse comes across in French?

Don't be downhearted. You can only do what you can do, and you are doing a lot. I don't agree with your principles on unions, but I respect them and like your practical cheerful approach to applying them. May I add that I am so glad to see another woman (I think you make 5!) posting regularly here. Not just because I have an ulterior motive, which is my obsession with the royal wedding and Kate's dress, and I would like to start a thread but there is some ridicule from the guys on here that even I could not take.

LOL! Finally, after 22 years on the Internet and thousands of posts I've found a Phil post I completely agree with! --Brant I wish an outsider would write an objective, investigative History of the Objectivist Movement in the 21st Century. It's real slow trying to piece it together from everyone's reminiscences here, I keep falling asleep.

Dear Mr. Chel isusu, If your cousins are Cecil and Norbert Chelsusu, they are not in Kapuskasing now, they are in my boarding house and I cannot get them out because of government interference and they owe me $287.60 for damage to my property and noise nuisance. Kapuskasing is in Canada not America, don't they teach you anything over there? I enclose my bill with itemization of the damages and expect payment within ten business days. This is common decent practice in civilized countries as your cousins do not seem to understand. I await your early reply. E. Pippington (Mrs.)

re AGW, you're something of a terrier yourself aren't you? Hybrid gadfly? You'll never get Adam to do the serious reading required - there are no legal or constitutional aspects to it that I know of (Adam if you are reading this it is a challenge). Maybe some of the science and math guys if they are not hating on you this week. Btw Brant (he usually ignores me but what the hell), Earthquakes Rock! (in uninhabited areas where no animals are harmed).

"there'll never be another tonight", Bryan Adams. Cos I wish they would have Battle of the Blades all year round.

Is not number one bad here! I eat most times, mother and sisters other times. I have cousin in fine American city Kapuskasing. Kind smart Objective people help find? I like Rand money very much. David Chelsusu Harare, Zimbabwe

Awestruck. Ithought the awfulness was an online persona he adopted to appear larger than life, ie smaller and pettier and meaner-spirited.But in his case it seems to be l'enfer, c'est moi=meme.

Fluent in English, near fluent in French, with Spanish a far-distant third in my language race, allowing me only terrifying duels with taxi drivers and muleteers. I also know some basic conversational Objectivese. You say you "know" some basic Objectivese. Define Know. Are we to infer that you understand it, that you grasp it firmly, that you promise not to misunderstand, wilfully misunderstand, or misrepresent it? Hmm?

It is a logical leap between Harriman and Peikoff and like I said I don't want to think about it.

Or wait, maybe de Tocqueville?

A duh for Ted but I don't know, except a mid-20th century American, and probably not WR Hearst. I of course, like everybody else in Group 1 and most of Group 2, believe myself to be in Group 3.

We had that kind of fun in Latin, too. There must be something about the 9th grade. "does Ericus's sister have two heads? No, she has three," and so on. One classmate "just felt" we would have a test one day and we did. Her nickname is Sibyl to this day. Howlers night with ESL staff are the best. Even the school custodians get some good ones, usually involving washrooms. Two of my own faves are "From birth to six months, Russians are in the infantry." (on a TOEFL essay, "Describe your favourite room in your home.") "My favourite room is the living room, because that is where the host takes his hostages." This guy was from Iran!

Encore une fois on oublie la cite la plus merveilleuse du monde! Scerhk le Diable est le Hugh John Fleming d'aujourd'hui. Bah! D. Savoie, Ph.D. Anglocologie et Superiorite Acadienne Moncton, N.B. nous nous souvenons

How could anyone think longer about that movie after they leave the theater, than they have been thinking about it before it was even made? 50 more years? Well, now that you bring up the subject of "another 50 years," in an earlier post on the seemingly endless saga of on-again, off-again production attempts to bring Atlas Shrugged to the screen, I had imagined a News Agency post, datelined October 2057, in which the hundred year-long struggle to bring the novel to the screen finally reached fruition in a Virtual Reality production, coinciding with the hundred year anniversary of the novel. Premiering at Terra Planitia. On Mars. And, since we haven't yet seen how the current effort will turn out,...don't bet against 2057 date. Truthfully guys - aren't you scared it will be like getting engaged at 18, and married at 68?

Would you be a descendant of Sir Richard Burton by any chance? Do you travel a lot? You seem to be the living refutation of the insular American. No relation to the explorer or the actor, but I am Danish in part (my last name is an anglicized spelling of a Danish name) and Danes are very over-represented among linguists classical and contemporary. My cousin has a doctorate in linguistics and speaks fluent Swedish. My great-grandfather jumped ship from a whaler in San Francisco after deciding not to settle in Australia, New Zealand, or Canada. I studied French for four years and German for three years in high school. I learned Spanish by immersion as an adult working with Mexicans and Filipinos. I am Ruthenian on my Mother's side, and heard it as a secret language of the elders during visits to my grandparents' in my childhood. My mother doesn't speak it except for prayers and food words and curses, but my Grandparents were fluent and I learned the basics from my Grandmother when she lived with us in her later years - enough to make myself understood to Poles and a Croat when taking orders for from clients over the phone. I have only travelled abroad once, to Germany, Austria and Switzerland for 10 days at the time of Reagan's bombing Qaddafi. We were in Lucerne when it happened, and I listened to the news about it in Swiss French. None of the students among us could understand the German-language news announcer. Languages come easy to me and I have been fascinated in them since childhood, but was never actually fluent in a second language until French in high school and Spanish after I started working as a cook. I have to say I would love to study Hebrew, and Arabic, which I can parrot, but would have to take formal classes to master the alphabets and pronunciation and have not had the opportunity. I do resent people who complain in their only language that foreigners speak their second or third or fifth language with an accent. Fascinating. I know people who have picked up a new language in a few months, obviously there is an innate ability that most of us do not have. Sir RB was the obvious example. There is a continuing debate in ESL circles about whether adults learn language differently from the way children do. I haven't looked at the relevant studies, but my observation is that they learn in the same sequence at beginning levels: 1. nouns 2. prepositions2.adverbs/adjectives---verbs come reluctantly of necessity. Most of my classtime is spent reminding them that every English sentence requires a verb. Stop collecting the damn nouns already and learn your tenses! I need to know if you weren't here last Friday because you had a doctor's appointment, or if you won't be here next Friday, or what. You can't just say "No coffee." We need to know if we are out of coffee, or if your religion forbids coffee, or what. And so on. I love it. PS If my observed learning sequence has anything to do with Harriman and his horrible red singing ball I don't want to know anything about it.

How could anyone think longer about that movie after they leave the theater, than they have been thinking about it before it was even made? 50 more years?

Would you be a descendant of Sir Richard Burton by any chance? Do you travel a lot? You seem to be the living refutation of the insular American.

As a teacher of adult ESL, I usually find that English is the third, not the second language my students are learning. Most of them have at least a working knowledge of one other language besides their own. My most polylingual student (age 80!)was learning English as his ninth language. A Cuban student knows only Spanish but her husband (a Canadian) speaks 5 languages and her father-in-law speaks 8. Thank Gord English is the most necessary worldwide language so far or I would be sunk. I speak French too and basic Spanish (the abovementioned Cuban is really helping me improve that)but I feel like a real piker in the great big world I am living in. How about you?

Jeff, Yes. Michael JR how can you even ask such a rhetorical question? Michael owns this forum.

I agree with this. One level on which AS can be read is as an extended revenge fantasy, revenge on an entire irrational immoral world and the evil characters who symbolize it. There are so many scornful smiles, so much calm not-caring, so much "but I don't think of you" that the reader knows that much has been cared about and thought about and raged against.