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i’m at lunch working on my french (see previous post) and a guy at the table next to me apologetically interrupts to ask why i’m studying french.
“because i’ve taken this language 3 times - junior high, high school, and college - and never really learned it. so i’m giving myself one more shot.”
he was beautifully amused by this. turns out he is lebanese and learned french as his “academic language”. he then began speaking french to me, about 50% of which i understood, which also amused him in a kindhearted way. i replied in english, too embarrassed by my speaking skills to reply in french.
and that’s when he said this: “find a french news broadcast and watch it every day. that’s how i learned english. i know english because of larry king! really, this will help you become fluent.”
i’d read this advice before in a number of places, but disregarded it. and now here was this man, who happened to sit next to me at lunch, evangelizing watching the news as a way to help acquire a language.
and he said this with such a desire to help, with such an obvious desire to have me attain what i am after, i was just so completely touched.
a stranger is now helping me reach my goal. what a gift.
“Monsters remain human beings. In fact, to reduce them to a subhuman level is to exonerate them of their acts of terrorism and mass murder – just as animals are not deemed morally responsible for killing. Insisting on the humanity of terrorists is, in fact, critical to maintaining their profound responsibility for the evil they commit. And, if they are human, then they must necessarily not be treated in an inhuman fashion. You cannot lower the moral baseline of a terrorist to the subhuman without betraying a fundamental value.”
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In a great example of just how powerful consumer cameras have become, watch as this Nikon P900 zooms into the night sky, transporting you from a parking lot in Quebec to the surface of the moon. According to DL Cade at PetaPixel, the built-in optical zoom maxes out at 83x but the camera is capable of continuing with digital zoom. “The P900 features 166x ‘Dynamic Fine Zoom,’ putting the final equivalent focal length at a mind-numbing 4000mm.” I don’t even know that that means exactly but it sounds like a whole lotta zoom. Video by Daniel Pelletier. (via Sploid, PetaPixel)
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