August 2007
57 posts
“I bambini degli anni ‘40 che in mezzo ai topi ci vivevano, in case con buchi nel battiscopa e rumori in cantina. Al cinema ridevano (grandi e piccoli) per il topo di cartone; poi rincasavano e controllavano le trappole.”
—leonardo: chi fa sempre divertire i grandi ed i piccin?
“To protect against a nuclear bomb, a plague, a natural disaster, an asteroid collusion or some other doomsday event, scientists are lobbying to have a reserve library of human scientific and cultural achievements built and maintained on the moon.”
—Armageddon Insurance: Scientist Call for Earth ‘Backup’ on Moon SPIEGEL ONLINE
“Vivo da solo ed ero triste. Mi piacciono i vigili del fuoco e la polizia, quindi li ho chiamati. Volevo che venissero e si prendessero cura di me”
—Giappone, chiama 388 volte pompieri per solitudine: arrestato | Reuters.it
“In some Russian smaller cities there is a problem of old trees that sometimes fall down on cars or people just because they are old already, the inner part is soft and any of them can fall down any time. There is a solution to cut them down but it would turn the cities into a scary landscape without greens - there is no enough ready plants to replace the cut ones.
So from time to time in the news it can be heard that here or there tree falls on a car or a human, without wind or other external forces causing it to fall.” —English Russia
So from time to time in the news it can be heard that here or there tree falls on a car or a human, without wind or other external forces causing it to fall.” —English Russia
DoBeS →
mpi.nl
Documentation Of Endangered Languages
“Originally, the goose was simply referred to as a barnacle. Thought to spontaneously generate from wood left in water, both the goose and the crustacean were believed to be closely linked, with the former being thought of as a further developed form of the latter.”
—List of retronyms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
“Astronomers have found an enormous void in space that measures nearly a billion light-years across.”
—BBC NEWS
“Carlo: quando muoio metti le mie ceneri in un recipiente da cucina?”
—gtalk
“Pashto ist seine Lieblingssprache: Und das will wirklich was heißen, denn alles in allem spricht Sebastian Heine etwa 35 Sprachen: Altpersisch, Sogdisch, Sakisch, Aramäisch - die Liste ließe sich noch lange fortsetzen.”
—Deutschlandradio
“Mr. Wendel, the online gamer, says he makes a point of using proper capitalization and punctuation in his online missives during competition. “It’s always a last resort,” says Mr. Wendel. “If you lose you can say, ‘At least I can spell’”.”
—What Did U $@y? Online Language Finds Its Voice - WSJ.com
