You have to confess to a certain ambivalence towards news journalists.*
One of the charges the postmodernists throw at historians of the old school is that they create the illusion of empiricism by the style they employ in their writing. No hint of a mention of ‘I think…’, an attempt to surpass the amount written in [...]
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On lies and damn lies.
Posted in History, Morality, Patriotism, Politics, Russia, TV, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia, Journalism, Mikheil Saakashvili, Postmodernism, Robert Mugabe, the BBC, Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin on August 12, 2008 | 4 Comments »
On Russia and Georgia.
Posted in Patriotism, Politics, Russia, The Rest of the World, War, tagged Georgia on August 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
What she said.
On more comparative linguistics.
Posted in Choir, Classical Music, Language, Music, Pregnancy, Russian, The Rest of the World, tagged Durufle's Requiem, Maurice Durufle on March 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Incidentally, you did find something new out in your first trimester, and that is that it is impossible to sing while pregnant.
Unfortunately, you discovered this by collapsing in the middle of the winter concert of your choir.
Interesting programme. You have now added two new singing languages to your repertoire: French and Russian.
French, the conductor spent [...]
On the refuge of scoundrels.
Posted in Alonso, Britain, F1, Fernando Alonso, Formula 1, Hamilton, James Allen, Language, Lewis Hamilton, McLaren, Patriotism, Russia, Russian, The Rest of the World, Very Fast Cars, Few Women. Who Drive., War on August 5, 2007 | 7 Comments »
As a fan of formula one, your years in Russia were a bit frustrating.
It’s true that the races were generally available on one of the terrestrial channels, although it always seemed to take a few races for a deal for the TV rights to be struck. Missing the opening of the season every year and [...]
On irrisitable urges.
Posted in Arabesque, Books, Claudia Roden, Cooking, Couscous, Food, The Rest of the World on July 16, 2007 | 4 Comments »
You should have been reading about the barbarian hordes rampaging across Britain in the 500s. You should have been preparing lessons - this week’s topic is ’love’. You should at least have been scrubbing the bathroom.
Instead you decided to cook a Moroccan feast. It’s from your new cookbook. Arabesque by Claudia Roden. You’ve been staring longingly (and [...]
On how to produce a good Eurovision entry.
Posted in Britain, Communication, Culture, Culture Shock, ESC, Eurovision, Eurovision 2007, Eurovision Song Contest, Flags, Language, Lasha Tumbai, Morality, Music, Patriotism, Russia, TV, The Rest of the World, Ukraine on May 13, 2007 | 13 Comments »
You adore the Eurovision Song Contest and you say this totally without the kind of qualifiers that Brits usually add at this point. Such as ‘it’s so tragiclly kitsch’.
In fact, you are rather bemused by the fact that the British persist in regarding the thing as a monumental joke and yet follow programmes like Pop Idol with [...]
On being lost in translation.
Posted in Architecture, Books, Britain, Culture Shock, Drink, Music, Public Transport, Russia, Sergei Lukyanenko, Sightseeing, The Rest of the World on April 23, 2007 | 7 Comments »
Having discovered that you had slightly misinterpreted the setting of the book by a Spanish author – with large chunks of it set in Spain simply because Spain is the centre of the universe, as opposed to somewhere suitably Continentally decedent for odd Art to take place – it got you thinking about the other series [...]
On activating your schemata.
Posted in Art, Books, Culture Shock, Language, Morality, Schemata, The Rest of the World, Work, Writing on April 20, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
You can be very boring on the topic of grammar. And punctuation. Particularly commas. The rules are comforting, even if you do treat them as something of an abstract concept when it actually becomes time to apply them.
You are considerably more interested in how we actually use language, though. And the routines we follow and [...]
On Women’s Day.
Posted in Britain, Feminism, Holidays, Russia, The Rest of the World, The USA on March 8, 2007 | 15 Comments »
Today, ladies, it is International Women’s Day, a phrase with all the semantic meaning of the Americans’ World Baseball Series. It’s big in the Former Soviet Union though.
You are rather fond of it as it means flowers and a card without either having to get up early and make pancakes or go to the effort of producing [...]
On supporting the troops.
Posted in Blogging, Britain, Culture Shock, Morality, Patriotism, Russia, The Rest of the World, The USA, War on March 6, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A chap called Hobgoblin, who you came to via Charlotte and Aphra Behn’s postings on the topic, has requested movingly and persuasively that people blog about what it means to support the troops. This seems like an admirable project, even if it didn’t run headlong into your latest train of thought, so here goes.
It’s not something you feel you [...]
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