Arnold Zwicky's Blog
Arnold Zwicky's Blog
Arnold Zwicky
A blog mostly about language from Arnold Zwicky, Adjunt Professor of Linguistics, Stanford University.
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In today’s mail, a big card from the United States Postal Service; the crucial sentence is bold-faced: Official Change-Of-Address Validation The Postal Service has received a Change-Of-Address order asking us to forward mail from this...
Yesterday — in my posting “National days”, a Peruvian (delivering food to my house) celebrated US Independence Day on my behalf: My dinner for June 27 was delivered by a courier bubbling over in delight about the coming Fourth of July,...
My dinner for June 27 was delivered by a courier bubbling over in delight about the coming Fourth of July, which he identified as my national day (adding that he was Peruvian and his national days came at the end of July — surprising...
rabbit rabbit rabbit, the sultry bunnies of July! But they are no match for Mononga Hela, the monstrous snake that swallows fat Carnegie melons, prodigious feral boars, and of course entire railway trains whole — the fearsome creature...
tiger tiger tiger to bring June to a close, anticipating the hot summer rabbits of July In the days of the Arnold and Isaac Seminars on Belief that have animated my Ramona St. condo in recent months — Isaac’s a deeply pious...
Difficult night last night. Slept uneasily from 6:30 only to 2:10, and with a substantial break in the middle. Took a levothyroxine tab, then needed to wait an hour before eating breakfast. Fresh news: results of the blood test for TB —...
Things rush on. The move from my Palo Alto condo (which Jacques and I moved into almost 40 years ago) to an independent living suite at The Avant of Palo Alto is scheduled to start at 8:30 am on Wednesday July 8th. Very complex...
Briefly noted. From my posting yesterday (6/26) “Enjoy your night in Tunisia”, in response to Lise Menn, a comment about: the music; I wanted to open up “A Night in Tunisia”, encourage people to discover the early [Dizzy]...
The Wayno / Piraro Bizarro strip of 6/26: (#1) He’s a good man, who’ll give you hot licks on his saxophone while lavishing care on your car during your dinner; enjoy your night in Tunisia, light on the harissa (if you’re puzzled by the...
(fellatial fun — and disrespectful of religion as well — so not for kids or the sexually modest) Yesterday on the Facebook group soc-motss (for same-sex-inclined folk and their friends), Ellen Evans forwarded a 6/24 FB posting from...
From Toni Borowsky (in Australia) on Facebook on 6/24: Jesus PYJAMAS! Ffs I am seeing ads for Jesus pyjamas. (AuE / BrE spelling PYJAMAS, AmE PAJAMAS) In response: — AZ > TB: Links! Pix! We need stuff to see, Toni! But I add that,...
From Elizabeth Daingerfield Zwicky (my daughter) on 6/20, completely out of the blue: Re: Assessment Thursday 10:30: The assessment visit is at the Avant [“a WellQuest Living Community”, offering independent living for seniors in Palo...
(about the holiday, and masculinity, and enough man-on-man sex to make this posting out of bounds for kids and the sexually modest) First take: the long pan. From my 6/16/19 posting “On this day in 2019”: (US) Fathers Day. For some of...
In the New Yorker‘s 6/15/26 issue, a “Talk of the Town” piece “The Boards: Like Willy Wonka” by Zach Helfand on the theatre director Michael Arden experiencing indoor skydiving at a facility in Queens (in preparation for his latest show,...
… from the New Yorker issue of that day: a Liana Finck cartoon on the never-done work of women; and an Ellis Rosen cartoon featuring a fully-accredited monster. The Finck. A young mother, frazzled by the care of a newborn, faces the...