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Re: You counted a book about contract law??? everynametaken Send a noteboard - 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM
Why in the world would you learn Tibetan or Akkadian? What possible use could you have in learning them? Just curious.

Does your wife know any other languages (besides Russian and English of course)?
Maybe it would be a fun experience to learn Spanish together as she will probably run into it quite a bit and you could both teach your child as well as she grows up.
But wine was the great assassin of both tradition and propriety...
-Brandon Sanderson, The Way of Kings
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50-book challenge complete! Tim - 31/12/2009 10:02:42 PM 2032 Views
What did you think of Three Men on a Boat? One of the more underrated comedies out there, IMO. *NM* RandAllThor - 01/01/2010 12:02:36 AM 499 Views
I think Jerome K Jerome was brilliant, and wish there were more like him. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:21:07 AM 840 Views
That is a great dedication. *NM* Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:12:34 PM 313 Views
Good job, Tim! rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 01:09:20 AM 804 Views
Not only that: my current read is Matter, the last Culture novel. Tim - 01/01/2010 11:16:34 AM 873 Views
Nice. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:45:27 PM 829 Views
Servant of a Dark God is Out Kristen - 02/01/2010 12:02:58 AM 925 Views
Re: Nice. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:22:37 AM 920 Views
Re: Nice. rebelaessedai - 02/01/2010 08:15:10 PM 947 Views
I should correct myself... Tim - 02/01/2010 08:49:21 PM 814 Views
I also completed the 50 Book Challenge, in a nick of time. Spriteling - 01/01/2010 11:07:42 AM 856 Views
another nice list imlad - 01/01/2010 07:19:46 PM 814 Views
Me too. Camilla - 01/01/2010 11:53:57 AM 931 Views
did you read "Gone-Away World" twice?? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:23:16 PM 826 Views
Yes. It is that good. Camilla - 01/01/2010 10:18:34 PM 716 Views
My 50 and a half books Linda - 01/01/2010 01:00:17 PM 938 Views
so, how you liking Pandora's Star? imlad - 01/01/2010 07:25:24 PM 747 Views
You counted a book about contract law??? Tom - 01/01/2010 04:16:53 PM 841 Views
fnords!!!!! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:29:09 PM 749 Views
by the way imlad - 01/01/2010 07:30:04 PM 750 Views
Three. If they were originally published separately, the fact that someone collected them into... Tim - 01/01/2010 11:55:22 PM 879 Views
thats what I was doing too imlad - 02/01/2010 07:13:47 PM 862 Views
The Night Watch series just got progressively worse. I liked all of them, though. *NM* Ghavrel - 01/01/2010 10:18:15 PM 364 Views
Ha! When you first said "mastering"- rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:51:16 PM 705 Views
Of course. It's the 50-book challenge, not the 50-SciFi-or-Fantasy-book challenge. Tim - 02/01/2010 12:14:59 AM 852 Views
I would never have considered case books "books" for purposes of the 50-book challenge. Tom - 02/01/2010 05:41:02 PM 913 Views
It's a textbook, not a case book. Tim - 02/01/2010 08:43:42 PM 1048 Views
I think even books we called textbooks were essentially case books. Tom - 03/01/2010 05:42:45 PM 828 Views
Re: You counted a book about contract law??? everynametaken - 04/01/2010 10:30:24 AM 758 Views
We both speak Spanish already. Tom - 04/01/2010 02:00:06 PM 764 Views
Do you really figure... Legolas - 05/01/2010 01:57:54 AM 856 Views
I don't think it would take less time than for Portuguese or French, but... Tom - 05/01/2010 04:53:27 AM 871 Views
Right, fair enough. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:21:09 AM 782 Views
I spent 8 months of those 2 years in Russia. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:08:14 AM 741 Views
I think you should teach her Koine before French Larry - 05/01/2010 04:01:44 AM 764 Views
If I could convince my wife, I would Tom - 05/01/2010 04:57:05 AM 811 Views
There's always Amharic, I suppose Larry - 05/01/2010 07:32:50 AM 939 Views
For some reason I always want to read that word as though it were in Gaelic Tom - 05/01/2010 01:49:44 PM 759 Views
Well, at least it's not Klingon! Larry - 05/01/2010 11:30:48 PM 763 Views
I have a cursory knowledge of Old Persian and a smattering of Gatha Avestan...why do you ask? Tom - 07/01/2010 06:09:20 AM 732 Views
You languageist! jh - 05/01/2010 03:09:59 PM 694 Views
Don't misunderestimate me or my verbology *NM* Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:02 AM 328 Views
Oh, come on. Finnish is all kinds of awesome. Legolas - 05/01/2010 05:01:16 PM 767 Views
I know the word "omenapiraaka" means "apple pie" - I went to the Helsinki McDonald's. Tom - 07/01/2010 06:10:49 AM 794 Views
Congratulations, that is twice my total Stephen - 01/01/2010 04:18:06 PM 711 Views
Since 50 and a half seems to be quite a popular number this year, here are mine. wahooka - 01/01/2010 04:38:09 PM 958 Views
I think I managed, too. However, after that, my reading just... ceased. jh - 01/01/2010 06:02:16 PM 835 Views
There's a lot of those I have not heard of. rebelaessedai - 01/01/2010 11:57:04 PM 852 Views
Oh. jh - 02/01/2010 11:19:25 AM 842 Views
Re: 50-book challenge complete! imlad - 01/01/2010 07:11:32 PM 783 Views
I failed my challenge. Rebekah - 01/01/2010 11:13:59 PM 843 Views
What did you think of Foucault's Pendulum? Camilla - 02/01/2010 08:42:02 PM 760 Views
Because I'm not American. Tim - 03/01/2010 05:50:36 AM 705 Views
Yes, but you lot have lost so much more... Larry - 03/01/2010 06:03:38 AM 716 Views
Is the subjunctive any more alive in America than in Britain? Tim - 03/01/2010 06:23:09 AM 763 Views
It is where I live Larry - 03/01/2010 07:46:15 AM 887 Views
Not in any meaningful sense. I suppose there are some irregularities which could be subjunctive... Ghavrel - 03/01/2010 09:54:46 AM 796 Views
Are you talking about African-American English? Tim - 03/01/2010 11:34:30 PM 919 Views
I think he is Larry - 03/01/2010 11:43:24 PM 852 Views
The example I used was AAVE, yes. Ghavrel - 04/01/2010 02:10:23 AM 817 Views
Would y'all ( ) say it's the same situation as with French (and I think Spanish)? Legolas - 05/01/2010 02:05:59 AM 732 Views
Not exactly Larry - 05/01/2010 04:00:04 AM 751 Views
Isn't that just a gerund? Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:00 AM 768 Views
Close, but not exactly Larry - 06/01/2010 10:17:34 AM 850 Views
All I know about French is what's in Louisiana, and it's just completely incomprehensible. Ghavrel - 06/01/2010 08:20:53 AM 722 Views
I was referring to Quebecois. Legolas - 06/01/2010 05:49:43 PM 806 Views
Aaah. Camilla - 03/01/2010 09:04:45 AM 773 Views
I should have mentioned... Tim - 03/01/2010 11:39:27 PM 793 Views
Re: I should have mentioned... Camilla - 04/01/2010 08:30:50 AM 705 Views
Possibly. It'd probably be worth checking what he meant. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 10:59:32 AM 319 Views
Illuminatus! is so great. I finished the trilogy last year, I think. Panorphaeon - 05/01/2010 06:58:14 AM 749 Views
If this will be your first Eco, I definitely recommend The Name of the Rose rather than FP. *NM* Tim - 05/01/2010 11:13:07 AM 327 Views
THE NAME OF THE ROSE is certainly a better introduction to Eco. Jacob - 05/01/2010 06:09:04 PM 725 Views
I finished as well. Craig - 08/01/2010 03:51:25 AM 869 Views
I finished with 90 books. Jessie - 09/01/2010 09:45:29 PM 827 Views
You should read Niffenegger's new book. Legolas - 10/01/2010 07:52:37 PM 727 Views
I have. Jessie - 11/01/2010 01:59:45 AM 821 Views
Excellent. (spoilers) Legolas - 11/01/2010 04:31:17 PM 719 Views
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