Hello, all. Did you know that the Lou in Lou Gehrig is short for Ludwig?
Also, did you know that Lou is a freakish doppelganger for the English actor Jeremy Northam? Much moreso than Gary Cooper, who played him in the movies.
Sadly, I don't think you can expect an English actor to hit .340 in a game he has probably never played in his life. Then again, Gary Cooper sucked at baseball too (and couldn't learn to play left-handed).
Actually what is really sad is that at 43, Northam has already outlived Gehrig by 6 years.
Announcement: After a session with the massage therapist and Cutie Chiropractor this morning, I went toAnn Taylor Loft, Loehmans, and the Grove.
Analysis: People are stupid, and I still don't have a shell I can wear under a business uit.
Did you know that the Lou in Lou Gehrig is short for Ludwig?
Your link says it's Henry Louis.
He was born Heinrich Ludwig. It was a German Immigrants Want to Sound Less Like German Immigrants thing. (His parents were the immigrants, I mean.)
I just had dinner. Alaskan king crab, key lime pie and a martini made with raspberry vodka and Godiva's white chocolate liquer. I have a nice buzz....
He was born Heinrich Ludwig. It was a German Immigrants Want to Sound Less Like German Immigrants thing. (His parents were the immigrants, I mean.)
Ah. I'm pretty sure my great-grandfather was Heinrich when he got here, but Henry thereafter.
I'm realizing that some dialect falls in my category of "bad grammar."
It's a hard line to draw. My parents were assiduous about my sister and me learning standard English, not allowing patois in the house. Nice idea -- but they both grew up speaking patois and have uberperfect English. And good patois, which is important in national identity. My sister and I have to patch our patois together -- as a result, I very rarely speak it. I'd rather put my French up for dissection than my patois -- what with not being French, it's much less stressful.
Some people recognise patois as a dialect and worthy of preservation. In the early 70s when I was learning English, these people were few and far between -- instead it was just bad grammar in mispronounciations.
I don't know where I draw the line between bad English and dialect of its own, but I hope any kids of mine benefit from my decision, instead of losing.
For all my parents' attempts I did get a "But you wouldn't
say
'et' in an interview, surely?" from Kat. Of course I would. My parents say 'et' too. To me it's perfectly proper English. To an English teacher? NSM.
How's the back, Lee?
How's the back, Lee?
Better. The PT/Massage guy and the adjustments seem to help, and I now have the name of a real PT person who is in my network that I need to call.
I'm trying to decide if it would be too self indulgent to get another massage at BW tomorrow when I get my eyebrows done.
Gah. Somone save me please. I'm sneaking a break during my staff conference followinga FIVE HOUR session on best practces. In fact, forget save me, jst shoot me.
web tv inthe room - huh. It's very strange. And the screen res is crappy enough that I cn't really see what I'm typing.
God, what I would'thave given for a sidekick or somesuch today. So. Started at 7 this morning
Five hours? Sounds like they could use some best practices oversight themselves.
Sounds more like an endurance test, or an EST seminar from the 70's.
