SBD: spring once more

It's spring again. And Monday again. Time to SBD, if you have anything to share.

( Shaken and Stirred by Kathleen O'Reilly )

Baseball returns to Balmer today. My expectations for the season are pathetically low. Is a .500 season too much to ask of the Orioles? Sadly, yes, too much to ask for the past 9 or 10 seasons. Yet I will hope for it again. Hope springs eternal and all that...

Language as culture

Check out this article in The Economist on language as part of culture. I found the example of kitaab vs. sefer (book in Arabic and Hebrew) fascinating, especially with respect to the author's speculation on the divergence of the nouns, given the closeness of the verb "to write" in the two languages (katab/katav).