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...These verses have long served as texts for cultural education - a staple of calligraphers and students, who memorize them in order to learn classical Japanese grammar. When I was a college student studying in Kyoto, where almost all of the hundred poets lived and wrote, I tried to memorize a few of the poems myself. I had got as far as the third (in fact, I never got further) when I went to dinner at a teacher's house one night and discovered that the teacher's mother - a city social worker - was a Hyakunin Isshu fan. She humored...
...righteous person” who had taken to studying the Jewish faith—albeit in a “quirky” way. Meyers would study Jewish texts sporadically, according to his friends, as he closely examined the etymology of individual words, sentence structure, and grammar. Teegarden said she has organized a memorial project in the Hillel community, designed to let Hillel members learn religious texts “in the spirit of how Isaac learned.” “It can offer us all a little bit of comfort,” Teegarden said...
...list was a story about “celebrating the semicolon” on a subway poster. The piece, beginning with this most banal of leads, develops into a disconcerting death knell for the richer punctuation of yesteryear: prominent lefties like Noam Chomsky wax elegiac and crack wise about grammar, the implicit assumption being that people under seventy see the semi-colon and think, “what’s wrong with that comma...
...will to breathe—but not the will to make shitty music videos. In the band’s single, “Believe,” Endicott pleads for “something more to keep me breathing for.” The lyrics (despite the bad grammar) recall an Elliot Smith song, filled with dark and brooding imagery; but the video for “Believe” wastes its existential potential on cheap cliches. What should have been a deeply moving and raw music video becomes a glorified iPod commercial, with slightly worse lighting, defective editing...
...Khattab's elementary school, earning $700 a month after deductions. Her monthly rent in the new apartment is $750. Eventually, she hopes she'll be hired to do data entry or computer programming in an office, as she did in Iraq. She's taking classes in English speech and grammar at the University of Phoenix. For many refugees, the language barrier can be the hardest to overcome. Marwan, another Iraqi, who arrived in Phoenix with his wife and infant son just a week after Faeza, remains unemployed. A furniture salesman in Baghdad, his English is even more rudimentary than Faeza...