ENGLISH IDIOMS– are they different in other languages?
IDIOM– a group of words , established by usage, as having a meaning not deducible from those of the meaning of the individual words expressed Idioms Continue Reading
Power, Self-Interest and Hypocrisy
I cannot emphasize how much power and the employment of this power makes China the domineering and overbearing country it is to-day. I remember as a teen-ager feeling so much sympathy for the Chinese people when attacked by the much smaller country as Japan was at that time. But not only with military strength. If Continue Reading
ONWARD HARBORD
This is going to be a short entry in my blog. I am unable to describe with mere words the passion in my head and heart that I feel for Harbord. I am not eloquent enough, nor can I project myself far enough. But I can explain why I feel this way. I love Canada Continue Reading
SO YOU THINK JEWS ARE SMART? I DON`T KNOW!
When the Jew-bashers are Jews No other people does this kind of damage to itself. And repeatedly over time, too Melanie Phillips Aug 13 The Murder of Abel; Jacopo Tintoretto, 1551-52 Apologies to those readers who received this same post earlier today. The latest move by President Joe Biden to appal many American Jews as Continue Reading
ESPERANTO–WHY NOT ENGLISH
Esperanto is an international language devised in 1887 by Dr Ludwig Lazarus Zamenhof (1859-1917) an eye doctor, under the pseudonym of “Doctoro Esperanto”. He originally called the language “La Internatia Lingua” (the international language”) but it soon became known as Esperanto. Zamenhof was born in the Polish city of Bialystok which at that time was Continue Reading
Why they named us the “Greatest Generation” It’s Me! MURRAY RUBIN
I was born January 1 , 1931 and I was the first baby boy in Toronto that year. I have been chasing the girls ever since. My uncles, Sam, David and Al brought over my father from Europe sight unseen. It was a big mistake as my mother Celia or Tili saw immediately that she Continue Reading