Gifted Typist

Sometimes you have have to tell your txt partner how you’re feeling about things. This Imglishisms might help to convey happiness or something even better. VBG very big grin VEG very evil grin WEG wicked evil grin SFETE smiling from ear to ear SETE smiling ear to ear HHO1/2K ha ha only half kidding HHOK [...]

There is no question that a public performance of music is one of life’s great pleasures, unless you happen to find yourself in vicinity of a “woo woo” artist. You know the “woo woo” artist. This is an individual so taken with the pleasure of the moment, they channel their exaltation through the “woo woo.” [...]

I can sympathise with people’s pains, but not with their pleasure. There is something curiously boring about someone else’s happiness. -Aldous Huxley, British novelist

“It is tragically ironic.” This is how Andrew Pipe, president of Commonwealth Games Canada responded to news that Halifax had dropped its bid for the games. Ironic, Mr. Pipe? Irony is a device to express an opposite meaning. A mini-van with flames of speed painted on the side is an example of visual irony. Dropping [...]

Tempted though I am, I won’t re-name this series Bad Trannies as it might not go down so well in translation. So, here is your second crop of Bad Translations. In a hotel in Athens: Visitors are expected to complain at the office between the hours of 9&11 am daily. In a Yugoslavian hotel: The [...]

Words that should be banned: hipster parents Much is being said lately of the Hipster Parent, most of it negative. Time magazine recently printed a screed entitled Too Cool for Preschool and New York Times columnist David Brooks dissed the trend of turning a six-month old into a logo for the lastest indie rock band [...]

23 February 2007 Embrace your virus – you are one of the chosen Just when you thought you were a poor virus-infested wretch, Dick comes along to say No! You’re not deserving of sympathy, you are one of the chosen. And so you are – chosen to carry one of the most successful viruses on [...]