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Keeping the mind limber

Familiarity dulls perception. Or, as Neil Gaiman once put it: “Change. Change. Change. Change… Change. Change. Chaaange. When you say words a lot they don’t mean anything. Or maybe they don’t mean...

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Two language-related pieces

Google Translate has added a Latin translation tool. The way it apparently works is quite interesting. I’ve played around with it, but can’t speak to its effectiveness. However, if it lives up to the...

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A puzzling pun

I picked up this really amazing book at the library today called Cleopatra of Egypt: From History to Myth. It’s a fairly exhaustive collection of artistic representations of the famous queen dating...

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