Random Musings: January 2010 Archives
My email address attracts a lot of misdelivered mail intended for participants in the plastics industry. Some of them are quite humorous.
der sir,i have attached my biodata with this mail for the vaccancy for diplomain tool & die engneering.plese trat ths mail seriouse
regards,
s k
I understand that the writer isn't a native English speaker, but at least make an effort.
Maybe you think you learned how to tie your shoes when you were five years old, but your knots still turn out lopsided and loose. Chances are you're tying a "granny knot" instead of a "reef knot". Learn the difference.
But now we need a word for a construct that has the opposite meaning when read backwards. Unfortunately "palindrome" doesn't carry any implication about meaning, so it's not as simple as "anti-drome". "Anti-palindrome" doesn't make sense either, since it isn't any inherent property of palindromism that is being negated. Suggestions?
(HT: DR.)
Welcome to 2010, and farewell to the zeros, or aughts, or whatever you want to call the past single-digit decade.
This year is another chance to live your life to its fullest! What would you do if knew 2010 were the last year of your life? Forget and forgive the past... don't drag around your regrets and grudges for another year.
You're living in the future!
