End of category. We are no longer under the bus.
Pat’s Polemics
My new Web site
non-standard English in writing
11/07/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentHere’s an example of someone who is very accomplished and articulate with a high school education but whose control of standard verb forms is erratic, (Continue Reading)
In response to the mid-term elections
11/07/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentWe gathered last night with Democrats from LD17 in AZ. At times we were buoyed up but overall we did not get the wave. Considering (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson # Nov. 5
11/06/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentQu’est-ce que c’est que les animaux disent aux princesses? She’s ugly. Before I set the recorder up I’d asked the same question and she replied, (Continue Reading)
I coulda shoulda wore a large
11/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentI did not write down the source of this but I’m guessing it was a live person I was listening to. The juxtaposition of two (Continue Reading)
Phone banking to the end
11/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentI put in three straight hours of calling yesterday. I’ll go in tomorrow for an hour or so and then that’s it. The Pawlik and (Continue Reading)
Just in case you wondered what happened to this category……….
11/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentTrump’s misdeeds, atrocities, and lies are simply too many to keep up with and they’re all well catalogued on MSNBC and other outlets. The lies (Continue Reading)
My election joke
11/04/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentIf we Democrats win big in this election, I’m gathering all my Mexican friends to celebrate. It’ll take them a while to get here b/c (Continue Reading)
Snarky
11/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis word, so new to me, goes back to 1906 and has an earlier history as meaning ‘annoy’. Its use has sky-rocketed recently with a (Continue Reading)
Why not Blacks, Mexicans, Asians, Jews? Why not?
11/03/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentOver and over we see the depressing yet gratifying statistics on how selected minority groups vote. People of color and Jews vote Democratic in large (Continue Reading)
When parents act
10/21/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMy son told me about five parents wrote letters to the school telling them of my son’s influence on their children….. all very positive. Now (Continue Reading)
How history class dumbs us down
10/21/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentLies My Teacher Told Me is filled with eye-opening vignettes of how textbooks for high school students distort the history of our country. Faced with (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #54 [33 on VR] Oct. 12
10/21/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentComment c’est que vous arrivez ici a douze heures quand vous suivez six cours? (I showed 12 with fingures and translated hours) Because I take (Continue Reading)
Oct. 17 Lesson 56 The Story
10/19/2018 Pat Barrett 1 CommentFeel free, as always, to correct the French. Un etudiant habitait a l’universite ou il etudiait l’informatique. L’universite se trouvait aux Etats-Unis et l’etudiant s’appelait (Continue Reading)
Nyah Oct 18, Lesson 56 reading a story
10/18/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentToday I tried to use our newer words and so I started a “simple” story that wound up going on for over a page and (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #52 Oct. 10
10/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentVous pouvez lire et ecrire. Zero (her dog) ne peut pas ni lire ni ecrire (new words) Oh, oh, it’s like the Spanish leer (I (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s first lesson June 25
10/16/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentFirst TPRS French lesson. Ou est Flower? (my dog) Chez vous (she answered in French. That was pretty much the last time. By October she (Continue Reading)
Transcription of Nyah’s lessons Oct. 2
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis lesson took place on Oct. 2, 2018 at Nyah’s house without the vocab posters. Il y a un animal chez nous. l’animal est un (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson #50 Oct. 4, 2018
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentThis is the first post of transcripts of my lessons in French with my granddaughter using purely tprs. The sessions last strictly 30 minutes, so (Continue Reading)
Nyah Oct 5, Lesson 51
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentRecapping a character in her story: Il est seul. Yeah. Il n’a pas des amis. Yeah. Well, his roommate. Oh, c’est un ami. Yeah. Ils (Continue Reading)
Nyah’s lesson Sept. 24 – 3 months, 23 hours in
10/14/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentFirst recorded lesson after the initial lesson in June. La groupe (rock) ne joue pas a l’eglise. Why would they play in a church? _________________________________________ (Continue Reading)
Mark Lilla encounters my wife
10/10/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentMark Lilla encounters my wife We went to hear Mark Lilla tell us Liberals how our widening up of the Democratic Party by taking up (Continue Reading)
Whither jazz without the church?
10/08/2018 Pat Barrett Add CommentNPR played a nice piece on currents in jazz, the dropping of the boundary between different approaches to jazz. They played a piece by an (Continue Reading)