Archive for November, 2006



Pinyin lies! Lies, I say!

Ah, Pinyin. You deceptive little minx, you.
Let’s face it, you misled me. I’m probably not the first, either, am I? No, no. I’m sure you’ve lured many sailor on the sea of linguistic progress with your siren call of phonetic spelling. But, oh! How those hopes were dashed!
Little did I know when I set out […]

A kink in the link

Howdy and nimen hao!
Since we swapped the URL to this blog, we’ve found that a few of the other links (to the comments and to “home”, for example) aren’t quite working as we’d like. I’ve got another blog post at the starting gate, but I’m going to wait until this minor glitch is sorted before […]

Babel-ing

So. Here we are. My first real post on this blog.
Hi. I’m Frank. Nimen hao ma?
Some of you may be wondering right now how it is that I was given the distinct honor of having a blog on this site. You wouldn’t be alone. Oh, sure, it might have something to do with some incriminating […]

Testing the blog capabilities, please stand by

Okay, here’s the REAL test! Can it do italics? Can it do bold?
Will it let me type in 中文?
Let’s see.
Will it do block quote?
How about an image?
I’ll get to that in a minute, I suppose.
Like this: Kung Fu Chicken!.

And I’m gonna leave that there because I think it’s funny as heck.