Timely Snow

Courtesy of Feng Gang’s Shadow, a Language Log post on Learning Chinese in America by Victor Mair. Language Log doesn’t allow comments, so let me comment here. I think this is utterly and truly wrongheaded. Partly, I suspect this is an example of the developmental fallacy, a variant of the naturalistic fallacy — i.e., what [...]

Courtesy of Chris Correa, a worthy successor to the Lake Wobegon effect, developed by Kevin Carey: Chris Correa » Dr. Pangloss’s Standards in Education

On our way out to our daughter’s graduation, we had some interesting automobile experiences. With Alice driving in the left lane of I-80 in Pennsylvania, the car suddenly lost power. She was able coast over to the right lane and get off on the shoulder, although there was enough traffic to make it a fairly [...]

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I’m back in Champaign-Urbana this weekend, for Xiaobin’s graduation. It’s great to see the Sims, and to meet Xiaobin’s aunt and cousin, who came for the graduation.
Champaign-Urbana seems about the same, and surprisingly comfortable and familiar. Same fights about the “Chief,” same sporting events (Uni High 5K, now merged with the “Twin City Twosome”, the [...]

edspresso.com: May 8-12: Tim Mooney vs. Chris Correa on the 65% Solution
Hmmh. What’s Chris gotten himself into?

Today was my last full day in Berlin. I got up early and took a train from the Zoo station out to Golm in Potsdam and met with Reinhold Kliegl and his students, and gave a talk about Chinese reading. The campus is in the former East Germany, and the core of it was an [...]

The picture is from a bank window, with a slogan that translates as “I live now” (or perhaps, “Live for today”),  (also, “instant credit”), encouraging people to live beyond their means like Americans do.
In college, many many years ago, I took two years of German and learned a reasonable amount, I think.  I never had [...]