Author: Tim
It's Snowing
“Daddy, its snowing. Daddy, my slide’s got snow on it. Daddy, my seesaw, it’s …” …….. (yes, you guessed, snow). Small likes snow.
I ongo, you ongo, he ongoes
:rant: It started with ongoing, but is now pandemic. Today’s annoyance, in press articles about Tessa Jowell, DOWNPLAY. What is wrong with “play down”? why do we need to keep inventing new verbs to say things we can say perfectly well and a lot more clearly using adverbs? Who decided to declare war on adverbs?…
Computers make for chatty children
Net surfing is not responsible for anti-social young people – quite the opposite From The Times This article from the BBC is also worth a look for students of New Think. Winston Smith is alive and well..
Political Compass
I was rather upset by my outcome on the political compass test. My result puts me unnervingly close to the Dalai Lama and the Green Party. 😳 On the brighter side I came out as Mastermind Rational (iNTj) in this test 🙂
