Comments for (b)logophile http://www.logophile.org/blog blog of a logophile (not "logos", but "λόγος") Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:32 +0000 hourly 1 Comment on Swearing by tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/29/swearing/comment-page-1/#comment-7940 tikitu Mon, 06 Feb 2012 10:21:32 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1220#comment-7940 <p>My to-read stack is so high at the moment, no matter how much I enjoy a book I feel mainly relieved when I finish it. One down... many, many others to go.</p> My to-read stack is so high at the moment, no matter how much I enjoy a book I feel mainly relieved when I finish it. One down… many, many others to go.

]]> Comment on Swearing by Pauli http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/29/swearing/comment-page-1/#comment-7939 Pauli Sun, 05 Feb 2012 02:57:18 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1220#comment-7939 <p>Actually I know the series too.</p> <p>Found them quite without any input from Hennie or Marijn.</p> <p>Really enjoyed reading those stories, you know the feeling of being sad when a book ends? That was me</p> Actually I know the series too.

Found them quite without any input from Hennie or Marijn.

Really enjoyed reading those stories, you know the feeling of being sad when a book ends? That was me

]]> Comment on Placenames by tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7922 tikitu Mon, 16 Jan 2012 15:21:04 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7922 <p>A rather apropos Futility Closet: http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/01/16/compass-trouble/</p> A rather apropos Futility Closet: http://www.futilitycloset.com/2012/01/16/compass-trouble/

]]> Comment on Placenames by geo http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7906 geo Tue, 10 Jan 2012 12:48:20 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7906 <p>Follow the link, if you want and read this article about "Sweden's 'silliest' place names revealed"...Quite funny. http://www.thelocal.se/38378/20120107/</p> Follow the link, if you want and read this article about “Sweden’s ‘silliest’ place names revealed”…Quite funny. http://www.thelocal.se/38378/20120107/

]]> Comment on Placenames by tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7905 tikitu Tue, 10 Jan 2012 06:12:31 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7905 <p>Good point Sponts. In the back of our bit there are the Beautiful and the Ugly rivers, as well as the Roaring Lion; the Dragons Teeth is a highly accurately named range in the area.</p> Good point Sponts. In the back of our bit there are the Beautiful and the Ugly rivers, as well as the Roaring Lion; the Dragons Teeth is a highly accurately named range in the area.

]]> Comment on Placenames by S. glaber http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7904 S. glaber Mon, 09 Jan 2012 00:52:30 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7904 <p>Meaty stuff! Alas, I don't have time to give it the full response it deserves, so I will content myself with pointing out that, while New Zealand settlement names can be a bit boring, topographic names tend to be far more entertaining. In the more rugged regions they give some insight into the state of mind of those who did the mapping: Mount Horrible, Desolate Gully, Rotten Ridge, Awkward Spur, and the charmingly blunt ‘Wrong Creek’. There are scores, probably hundreds, in the same vein. Charles Douglas, the first mapper of South Westland, took a different approach: ‘… it is not easy to give good names in a new country, especially when a number are required. After exhausting all the Jacks & Jills, the Buggins and Biffins in the district, I had at last to fall back on Milton’s list of the Fiends and Homer’s catalogue of the Ships’. Which is presumably how we ended up with the Beelzebub Glacier and the peak of Dagon.</p> Meaty stuff! Alas, I don’t have time to give it the full response it deserves, so I will content myself with pointing out that, while New Zealand settlement names can be a bit boring, topographic names tend to be far more entertaining. In the more rugged regions they give some insight into the state of mind of those who did the mapping: Mount Horrible, Desolate Gully, Rotten Ridge, Awkward Spur, and the charmingly blunt ‘Wrong Creek’. There are scores, probably hundreds, in the same vein. Charles Douglas, the first mapper of South Westland, took a different approach: ‘… it is not easy to give good names in a new country, especially when a number are required. After exhausting all the Jacks & Jills, the Buggins and Biffins in the district, I had at last to fall back on Milton’s list of the Fiends and Homer’s catalogue of the Ships’. Which is presumably how we ended up with the Beelzebub Glacier and the peak of Dagon.

]]> Comment on Placenames by geo http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7903 geo Sun, 08 Jan 2012 18:25:36 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7903 <p>Firstly, best wishes for a Happy New Year. So, because this post is about "toponymy" and geographers, take a look on http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/default.html</p> Firstly, best wishes for a Happy New Year. So, because this post is about “toponymy” and geographers, take a look on http://unstats.un.org/unsd/geoinfo/UNGEGN/default.html

]]> Comment on Placenames by Robert Anton Reese http://www.logophile.org/blog/2012/01/08/placenames/comment-page-1/#comment-7902 Robert Anton Reese Sun, 08 Jan 2012 17:32:33 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1203#comment-7902 <p>Driving through England recently I saw road signs for The West and The North. None of this "land" nonsense.</p> Driving through England recently I saw road signs for The West and The North. None of this “land” nonsense.

]]> Comment on Painfully true observations on depression by children with anxiet http://www.logophile.org/blog/2011/10/29/painfully-true-observations-on-depression/comment-page-1/#comment-7885 children with anxiet Thu, 22 Dec 2011 17:46:10 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1133#comment-7885 <p>The most effective treatment for depression! Just get out of bed no matter what the weather be and either walk or jog for an hour or more. That has worked for me and I've been a patient of severe depression at one point of time.</p> The most effective treatment for depression! Just get out of bed no matter what the weather be and either walk or jog for an hour or more. That has worked for me and I’ve been a patient of severe depression at one point of time.

]]> Comment on Code psychoanalysis by tikitu http://www.logophile.org/blog/2011/12/11/code-psychoanalysis/comment-page-1/#comment-7876 tikitu Tue, 13 Dec 2011 08:41:05 +0000 http://www.logophile.org/blog/?p=1184#comment-7876 <p>Bring it to GB so I can take a glance through?</p> <p>Although I'm hoping never to work with Java again. After a couple of years of Python, all the things that were little irritations before will be <em>enormous</em> ones now.</p> Bring it to GB so I can take a glance through?

Although I’m hoping never to work with Java again. After a couple of years of Python, all the things that were little irritations before will be enormous ones now.

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