Frazz by Jef Mallett for January 06, 2016

Lee Trevino once said if he did not swing his driver 300 times a day he lost touch with it

That’s why I don’t worry about developing a better swim stroke. I don’t want to spend the time in the pool it would take to keep it up. As long as I can get to the other side I’m happy.

I’ve forgotten more math than most people know.

I have found three main ways languages get new words. French (not Quebecquoi) turn it over to l’Acadamie Française who study it for a decade before deciding it can be used in legal documents. German describes it in a few words as possible, knocks out the spaces, and cram it together as one word – long, but one word. English looks around to see if some other language has a word for it, and steals it. Since most languages (but not people) use a Roman alphabet, the new word is either misspelled or mispronounced.

My kids, 4 and 8, take swim classes through the year. You can really tell when we have to miss a class or when we do extra swim time. It’s not that the kids- or Frazz or Caulflued- are dumb, but that learning new things takes a lot of practice.

WTF? You can’t forget how to swim. Once you know it, you know it forever.

TomielmVirtually all pre-literate languages “discovered” in the 18-20th centuries were reduced to writing with a Roman alphabet. This is why I emphasized languages, not population. The only one I have found to develop writing without other culture influence was Sequoyah’s syllabary for Cherokee. Cree was developed by whites and adopted by some Inuit languages, but few other exceptions. It is no sweeping generality, but basic anthropology. Individuals, sure, China, India, South-east Asia (except Malaysia, etc.), and the Islamic Expansion have more people than use Roman, but those are relatively few languages, which was what I was talking about.

My heart forgets how to beat after two consecutive days of no running, so my brain tells my legs to slow down.