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Category Archives: Site Administration
Video: ‘The Calculendar (Rebecca Black – ‘Friday’-Inspired) Commercial’
[my video] Have trouble figuring out the days of the week? You need The Calculendar! This TV-commercial parody was inspired by the lyrics Yesterday was Thursday, Thursday Today it is Friday, Friday [. . .] Tomorrow is Saturday And Sunday … Continue reading
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, Foreign Languages, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, calculator, calendar, closed-captioned, commercial, days of the week, días de la semana, english, español, français, French, Friday, infomercial, jours de la semaine, parody, Rebecca Black, silly, Spanish, spoof
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2010 Australian word of the year: googleganger
Australia’s Macquarie Dictionary announced their word of the year (WOTY) for 2010 yesterday: googleganger 'goohguhlganguh [American dialects end in "-ur" for many] noun a person with the same name as oneself, whose online references are mixed with one’s own among … Continue reading
Posted in Dialects, LANGUAGE, Site Administration, Words / Dictionaries
Tagged American, australia, british, googleganger, uk, word of the year, woty
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Video: ‘Spot the Ambiguity’
[my video] Steven and Brandon have a misunderstanding. Can you spot the ambiguity? Link to video Closed-captioning (CC) and transcript available.
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, Foreign Languages, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration, Words / Dictionaries
Tagged absurd, ambiguity, automobile, car, closed-captioned, dry landscape garden, japanese, Japanese rock garden, karesansui, karesansui teien, lexical ambiguity, silly, teien, verbal ambiguity, word ambiguity, youtube, Zen garden, 善, 庭園, 枯れ山水, 枯れ山水庭園, 枯山水, 枯山水庭園
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Video: ‘The Time That’s Spruced With Pine’
[my video] After a short, original light-verse poem, hear about Christmas and Japanese New Year’s and learn some Japanese words related to New Year’s. Link to video Closed-captioning (CC) and transcript available.
Posted in Comedy / Humor Media, Foreign Languages, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, Language Media, My Videos, Site Administration, Words / Dictionaries
Tagged Christmas, closed-captioned, hatsumode, hatsumoude, Japan, japanese, Japanese New Year, kadomatsu, light verse, nengajo, nengajou, New Year's, otoshidama, poem, poetry, Shogatsu, Shougatsu, お年玉, 初詣, 年賀状, 正月, 門松
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Video: ‘Talking to Zoo Animals’
[my video] Here’s my story of talking to zoo animals and imitating their calls. It’s a true story, but I took some dramatic license. I didn’t actually wear glasses as a young child. And I don’t remember the monkeys’ food … Continue reading
Posted in Dialects, HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, accent, animal, animal communication, animal sounds, australian, australian accent, boxing, chick-fil-a, childhood memory, closed-captioned, cow, dialect, eat mor chikin, english, imitation, monkey, ninja, ninja cow, rocky, rocky 7, silly, sylvester stallone, true story, zoo
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Video: ‘Language and Humor: First Show’
[my first live-action video] This is the first show of “Language and Humor.” You’ll see that everything goes well until— Actually, you’ll see that it never starts going well. Could I— Could I have a moment alone, please? Link to … Continue reading
Posted in HUMOR, LANGUAGE, My Videos, Site Administration
Tagged absurd, bathrobe, chanchanko, first show, japanese, passive-aggressive captions, silly, stress, ちゃんちゃんこ
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Video: ‘Logo Teaser Trailer Parody’
[my first video] While I was working on my blog layout recently, my site logo asked if he could have a little time off. I said OK. Little did I know that he’d gotten a starring role in a movie. … Continue reading
Blog back
You might notice a bit of a gap in blog posts (if a mere two years even qualifies as “a bit of a gap”). Aside from my being busy for a while, the gap is due to the WordPress blogging … Continue reading
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Blog: About pages – plain and playin’
I’ve brought back Classic Coke! Oh, actually this is less caramel-colored and more word-filled. For those who like variety, I’ve relabeled the About page: About (plain version), and I’ve brought back the original, playful version as: About (playin’ version). The … Continue reading
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