Year: 2021
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On Multilingualism and Empathy
Hallo (German informal). Guten Tag (standard German). Moin moin (Northern Germany). Goed morgen (Dutch). Bonjour (French). Ciao (Italian). Privet (Russian). Merhaba (Turkish) . Salam (Arabic). Zdravo (Serbo-croation). Hi (English). These are a few of the greetings I might hear on any day in my hometown of Würselen, Germany, which lies just a few kilometers away…
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UNIX tip of the day: readlink
Today I found myself using the readlink command, and it occurred to me that many people might not be aware of it. Here is what the man page says it does readlink – print resolved symbolic links or canonical file names If you work on shared filesystems with other people, such as on a large…
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It doesn’t matter to me …
Over the last several years, I have noticed that my kids frequently ask me simple questions or preference, for which I really don’t have an opinion. A good example of this is when we are playing a board game. Dad, which color do you want? I used to reply something like “I don’t care”. But…
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I just wanted to say …
I remember my first year in college, there was a student in one of my classes (this class only had 12 students) who frequently prefixed her comments in class with “this might stupid, but …”, and then went on to say something which most people thought was stupid. In other words, it probably would have…
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THINK
My kids’ school back in Colorado had this mantra that before you talk, you should THINK – a helpful acronym to check that what you are about to say is True Helpful Informative Necessary Kind My daughter recently made me a new sign to hang on our wall near our dining room table so that…