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an interesting article on language learning
opposes the widely held belief that languages are easier for children to learn and says that children merely have more reasons for learning than adults:

embarrassment is a prime motivating factor
for human beings. dealing with a french waiter is nothing compared with
the vicious reception in store for a child who speaks funny.

[found via found]

from ponderous ponderings:

the beer scooter works in the following fashion:

the passenger reaches a certain level of drunkenness and the “slurring
gland” begins to give off a pheromone. bacchus or one of his many sub-contractors
detects the pheromone and sends down a winged beer scooter.

the scooter scoops up the passenger and deposits them in their bedroom
via a trans-dimensional portal. it is not cheap to run a beer scooter franchise,
so a large portion of the passenger’s in-pocket cash is taken as payment.

i love to say that i didn’t know what they were on about….