Back to School Italian, Lesson II.5.18: With brief conversation
Reflexive verbs and expressing like and dislike
Author: Thomas Fleming
Back to Greek School, Lesson I.19: WITH AUDIO +GREEK SENTENCES
Consonant declension nouns with stems ending in T or D, plus result clauses.
Razzies for Tucker Carlson
My old friend Ron Maxwell posted a comment with a link to an NR story condemning Tucker Carlson for anti-Semitism. After “liking” Ron’s post, I commented:
Life in the Dark Age: The Corruption of Language, I
The battle over the verbal system was lost about the time people began to say, “Tomorrow we will go to the grocery store,” and “If I were you, I would not do that.”
Information on Greece 2025
It appears that we now have 15-20 more or less confirmed participants in the November trip to Greece. We have therefore contacted our Athenian travel agents, who own a hotel in Athens and provide buses and guides.
Summer Poems
Four summer poems by A.E. Housman, the Welsh poet Edward Thomas, Robinson Jeffers, and Robert Louis Stevenson
Scott’s Ivanhoe Part II
The most striking feature of Ivanhoe is probably the depiction of the conflict between Saxons and Normans.
Poetry: Douglas Young
This is one of Douglas Young’s few poems in English (as opposed to what he called Lallans, Lowland Scots), though it is also in German, French, and Doric Greek. Note the date: 1939.
Walter Scott: Ivanhoe, Part I
Sir Walter Scott’s Ivanhoe, published in 1818, took Britain by storm. As he explains in the preface he wrote for a later edition, he had begun to realize that the reading public, after enjoying nine Scottish novels in four years, was beginning to typecast the unknown “author of Waverley” as a Scottish localist
