{"id":19339,"date":"2010-11-27T04:30:33","date_gmt":"2010-11-27T11:30:33","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-0430.html"},"modified":"2010-11-27T04:30:33","modified_gmt":"2010-11-27T11:30:33","slug":"unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-0430","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2010\/11\/27\/unblogged-bits-sat-27-nov-10-0430.html","title":{"rendered":"Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Nov-10 0430)"},"content":{"rendered":"
Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. <\/p>\n
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  1. I\u2019m updating my own blog<\/a> – I set up my friend Mary with an actually usable, commentable, RSSable blog, via WordPress. Glad to be of service.<\/li>\n
  2. Book Release!<\/a> – Go! Buy! Highly recommended!<\/li>\n
  3. Lickety splits: two nations divided by a common language | Mind your language | Media | guardian.co.uk<\/a> – I enjoy the more-than-occasional Anglicism, and don’t consider it a bother. While I’d hate to see our two tongues become identical, we have a lot that we can gain from each other’s linguistic foibles (and hope we do). Linguistic puritism is for the French …<\/li>\n
  4. 11\/26\/2010<\/a> – Kay and Kaylee doing the Wii thang.<\/li>\n
  5. 11\/25\/2010<\/a> – Our Thanksgiving!<\/li>\n
  6. The Great Race (1965), Saturday the 27th of November, on TCM<\/a> – Been years since I saw this. Must add it to the DVR …<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n<\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

    Links (most recent first) that caught my eye, but did not warrant full-blown blog entries …. I\u2019m updating my own blog – I set up my friend Mary with an actually usable, commentable, RSSable blog, via WordPress. Glad to be of service. Book Release! – Go! Buy! Highly recommended! Lickety splits: two nations divided by … Continue reading “Unblogged Bits (Sat. 27-Nov-10 0430)”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_seopress_robots_follow":"","_seopress_robots_imageindex":"","_seopress_robots_snippet":"","_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_robots_breadcrumbs":"","_seopress_robots_freeze_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_custom_modified_date":"","_seopress_robots_canonical":"","_seopress_social_fb_title":"","_seopress_social_fb_desc":"","_seopress_social_fb_img":"","_seopress_social_fb_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_fb_img_height":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_title":"","_seopress_social_twitter_desc":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img":"","_seopress_social_twitter_img_attachment_id":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_width":0,"_seopress_social_twitter_img_height":0,"_seopress_redirections_value":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled":"","_seopress_redirections_enabled_regex":"","_seopress_redirections_logged_status":"","_seopress_redirections_param":"","_seopress_redirections_type":0,"_seopress_analysis_target_kw":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[16],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-19339","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-potpourri"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":12051,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2007\/12\/01\/word_dude.html","url_meta":{"origin":19339,"position":0},"title":"Word, dude!","author":"***Dave","date":"Sat 1-Dec-07 12:00pm","format":false,"excerpt":"A list of linguistic coincidences -- words that mean the same things in completely unrelated languages....","rel":"","context":"In "Writing and Language"","block_context":{"text":"Writing and Language","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/category\/writing-and-language"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":38794,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2013\/09\/22\/period-language-and-using-it-in-writing.html","url_meta":{"origin":19339,"position":1},"title":"Period language and using it in writing","author":"***Dave","date":"Sun 22-Sep-13 12:05am","format":false,"excerpt":"A look at how having a good \"vocabulum\" of an era is essential for period writing ... in moderation. 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