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vee wrote:Which brings up the added question, which do we prefer Librivoxer, Libriphiles, Libroxians ... any other suggestions?

One also needs to query what the female version may be, one would probably not want: librivixen, libriphillies and libroxia respectively.

Ah that reminds me to tell the TiVo to get the middle-of-the-night Olympics broadcasts... Tivo is so helpful -- we skip all the commercials and heartwarming goopy tearjerking backstories, and just watch the interesting sports. During the Athens games we found we could get through a 4-hour broadcast...

After reading the forums (fora?) for a while one starts to get an idea of who the librivoxers are. Here are some salient points: - Avid radio listeners in particular NPR (possibly even anti TV) - Hightened sense of humor - Love of language - Love of puzzles, games (in particular role-playing video g...

Treesh, I don't envy you your task. How on earth are you going to keep a straight face while reading Chapter 9: "The Use of Sewing Cards" "People get to very queer places on that [magic] carpet. I have been for several excursions on it so I know. One of the places it can take you is a town where all...

Thanks for the info on Mary Everest Boole and on her book. At the end of Chapter 1 Mary Everest Boole mentions that Algebra comes from two Arabic words but does not elaborate on what those are. Algerba is short for "Al Jabr wal Muqabala" which stands for "[The science of] mending and equating". The ...

Welcome Karen;

Can't have too many librarians, they are the salt of the earth.
Is Berrien Springs still the main NPR station in Southwest Michigan?

I agree with Betsie about needing general encouragement. Some of us are needy humans, and like interaction for interaction's sake. You know this is one of the reasons I frequent the Librivox forums so much, because I need the interaction with people. Perhaps it does stroke ones ego to be acknowledg...

The meaning of these obscure words is: Sesquipedalian: Long and ponderous; having many syllables. http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2006/01/13.html Triskaidekaphobia: Fear of friday the thirteenth http://dictionary.reference.com/wordoftheday/archive/2005/05/13.html Don't think I w...

Of intereset to bilbiophiles (and librarians)

Interesting site, scans of origianl manuscripts

http://www.bl.uk/onlinegallery/ttp/ttpbooks.html

That is what's most fascinating about language, it starts with words and grammar but very soon it get into the ineffable. Great writers are those who, using words, can evoque what words can only hint at. In spite of the fact that I am fluent in many langugages, I don't trust language as a mean of co...

Betsie's comments about why Americans did not maintain their native languages upon migration to the US is very incisive. There is also another reason why the US remains monolingual, Paula has touched on this but I think there is more to it. In practise there is no pressing need in the US to learn a ...

Since the original question was not answered, here is quick one. Power PC are RISC processors while Intel chips are CISC processors. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/RISC RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) architecture do simple tasks every "tick" hence they need to run faster to perform complex t...

Here are the "cheats" for all levels of that game

http://www.gamespot.com/ps2/adventure/harrypotterprisonerofazkaban/hints.html
Use it in moderation!!

Mother tongue is arabic, learned French and English in school and had some German as well (now almost forgotten). Learning other languages was not a matter of choice, it was taken for granted. There is no way to really learn a language without getting into the mindset of the natives of that language...

As I was listening to the recent installments of the German readings of "Maerchen von den Gebrueder Grim", it occured to me there is yet one more good use for these recording: Most learners of foreign languages are familiar with the multiple trip to the media lab to listen to recordings by native sp...