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Learn Taishanese (台山話 aka Toisanwa aka Hoisanva)
For those who are interested in learning Taishanese (台山話 aka Toisanwa aka Hoisanva), I finally got a chance to put up a web page linking to the Taishanese learning material that I found (as mentioned in my previous blog post, ‘Learning Chinese: Cantonese or Mandarin? Or…? Taishanese!’). You may go to Learn Taishanese (台山話) (alternate link:…
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Books, Books, and More Books on GoodReads :)
I love social media. I think it’s an important aspect of the internet as it gives people a chance to connect with others they might never ever meet in ‘real life’. I’ve been considering GoodReads for a while now. On my old Facebook profile, I used to use weRead, but since I signed up for…
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Review: Brian Lumley’s Mythos Omnibus: “Burrowers Beneath”, “Transition of Titus Crow”, “Clock of Dreams” Vol 1
Brian Lumley’s Mythos Omnibus: “Burrowers Beneath”, “Transition of Titus Crow”, “Clock of Dreams” Vol 1 by Brian Lumley My rating: 2 of 5 stars I liked The Burrowers Beneath (I’d give that 3 or 4 stars), but was disappointed with The Transition of Titus Crow. Maybe Lumley lost me somewhere (or maybe he got lost…
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Learning Chinese: Cantonese or Mandarin? Or…? Taishanese!
A few years back, I tried looking for material on Toisan (aka Taishanese). The most I found was this linguistic paper, Toisan: A Cantonese Dialect by Aaron Lee, which I thought was fairly good in terms of giving you an understanding of the pronunciation in Toisan. What I didn’t know then was that the name…
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Books, Novels, and Languages
The past month has been a bit crazy. I’ve just been trying to finish some things and then started working on others. Here is some fiction that I’ve read recently: Knife of Dreams (book 11 of The Wheel of Time) by Robert Jordan Guilty Pleasures by Laurell K. Hamilton. (I had read the graphic novel…
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iPhone Users: Not to Worry, Google Hasn’t Forgotten You
Google has developed a Google+ app for iPhone, but apparently the delay is on Apple’s end as the app is being reviewed. In the meantime, Google+ has a mobile site set up if you go to plus.google.com on your iPhone, you will get the mobile version of Google+. (Of course, if you don’t have an…
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SlutWalk and Its Critics (Media Is Important, but Don’t Let It Play You)
Okay, I’ve seen and read enough criticism of SlutWalk. I agree with other defenders of SlutWalk that a lot of the criticism seems to focus on either the word ‘Slut’ or that SlutWalk isn’t ‘feminist’ enough. Now flying about is a very invalid criticism that SlutWalk is “A Stroll Through White Supremacy”. From my perspective,…
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SlutWalk Loses One Feminist while Rabble.ca Loses a Reader
I’ve been following Rabble.ca’s newsfeed for almost a year now in my Google reader. I stumbled across that news site last summer when I was looking at some human rights issues. Aside from the G20 articles last summer and the random human rights articles, I haven’t found many articles on Rabble to be of any…
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