http://lingamish.com/2009/01/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/ Won't you be my neighbor? Mon, 15 Mar 2010 22:43:41 -0600 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc hourly 1 http://lingamish.com/2009/01/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/comment-page-1/#comment-5675 jane Sun, 04 Jan 2009 08:45:47 +0000 http://lingamish.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/#comment-5675 My Liverpuddlian husband describes me as being horribly RP (received pronunciation) though these days he says my English intonation has been too influenced by French and I tend to go up rather than down at the end of sentences... ah well must try doing some podcast thingies this year we'll see! My Liverpuddlian husband describes me as being horribly RP (received pronunciation) though these days he says my English intonation has been too influenced by French and I tend to go up rather than down at the end of sentences… ah well must try doing some podcast thingies this year we’ll see!

]]> http://lingamish.com/2009/01/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/comment-page-1/#comment-5674 David Ker Sat, 03 Jan 2009 22:09:50 +0000 http://lingamish.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/#comment-5674 Thanks, Jane. I try to write in my thickest Pacific Northwest dialect. :) Thanks, Jane. I try to write in my thickest Pacific Northwest dialect.

]]> http://lingamish.com/2009/01/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/comment-page-1/#comment-5673 jane Sat, 03 Jan 2009 18:58:55 +0000 http://lingamish.wordpress.com/2009/01/03/new-years-resolution-3-attain-your-inner-montaigne/#comment-5673 David - I love reading your blog - it is so extraordinarily creative and technically whizzy (sorry now I sound like something out of Biggles) and I really like that it's so opiniated - especially as some of the opinions are not at all ones I share. I admire the feistiness of the backwards and forwards in your comments - I'm far too institutionally bound to even begin to do that. Although you and I are both English mother tongue I also like that quite alot of your blog is so "foreign" to me - a bit like you and the REB - you are educating me in ways I didn't even know I needed to be educated. (I have never been to North America - Martinique doesn't count I suppose ...) Blogging has kept me sane over the past year and it's also helping me imagine the future and appreciate all the crumbs of life, faith and experience and sweep them up in some way, leave some trace in the sand before the tide comes and cleans the beach again. Once work starts up again blogging will have to give way to work again - very sad! Anyway keep dancing over those keyboards - I'll try to keep up with reading but am often a bit behind! happy new year! David – I love reading your blog – it is so extraordinarily creative and technically whizzy (sorry now I sound like something out of Biggles) and I really like that it’s so opiniated – especially as some of the opinions are not at all ones I share. I admire the feistiness of the backwards and forwards in your comments – I’m far too institutionally bound to even begin to do that. Although you and I are both English mother tongue I also like that quite alot of your blog is so “foreign” to me – a bit like you and the REB – you are educating me in ways I didn’t even know I needed to be educated. (I have never been to North America – Martinique doesn’t count I suppose …)
Blogging has kept me sane over the past year and it’s also helping me imagine the future and appreciate all the crumbs of life, faith and experience and sweep them up in some way, leave some trace in the sand before the tide comes and cleans the beach again. Once work starts up again blogging will have to give way to work again – very sad!
Anyway keep dancing over those keyboards – I’ll try to keep up with reading but am often a bit behind!
happy new year!

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