Random thoughts and observations
The language is constantly evolving with a trend towards brevity. Waggon has become wagon and to-day has become today. Some Australians cling to what they believe is English spelling for words like “programme” and anything that potentially ends in -our like “colour”. I think they are mistaken. Researching newspapers from the 1890s for my family [...]
It’s rather ironic I learned about The Vatican’s web site from a blog named The Inquisitr I’m not surprised The Vatican has a web site; it’s just I had never thought about it before and had never visited. As The Inquisitr reveals, a Latin section was only recently added. I’ve never studied Latin and I [...]
I’m embarrassed how poor my handwriting has become. It was never good, but it’s become worse. I struggled to write neatly in primary school; now it’s impossible. I can print letters okay, but cursive script is atrocious. Today I wrote Christmas messages for some key contacts. I could barely read them myself. I blame two [...]
There’s an interesting opinion piece in The Age about how Australian travellers are perceived overseas. Basically we are considered arrogant. I travelled in 1991 and the perception was emerging then. It doesn’t surprise me that it’s worse today. Seventeen years ago the “arrogant” tourists were Americans and Germans. Australians were considered brash but friendly. Australians [...]
