Category Archives: translation

  1. Thumbs, Maxims, and Regret

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    November 6, 2021 by libroshombre

                “Doctors say that our thumb is our master-finger and that our French word for it, ‘pouce,’ derives from the Latin …
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    Category: essay, illness, pandemic, plague, translation, vaccination, writers, writing | Tags: , , , , ,

  2. Stupidity, Waxed Tadpoles, and the Alamo

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    November 16, 2016 by libroshombre

      A few years ago Australian journalist Ali Clarke wrote about the “six degrees of dumbness.” These included being born …
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    Category: advertising, language, phonetics, thinking, translation, Uncategorized | Tags: , , , , , ,

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