Posted by Roger Keays, 3 March 2009, 12:00 PM
- framför (prep) - Border står framför fönstret.
- omkring (prep) - Stolarna står runt omkring bordet.
- bredvid (prep) - Golvlampen står bredvid fåtöljen.
- över (prep) - Taklampen hänger över bordet.
- under (prep) - Hunden ligger under bordet.
- på (prep) - Tavlorna hänger på väggen.
- emot (prep) - Teven står mitt emot soffan.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 2 March 2009, 12:00 PM
- vid (prep) - Han ställer skrivbordet vid fönstret.
- mellan (prep) - Han ställer en av fåtöljerna mellan sängen och garderoben.
- skåp (n) - Det finns några skåp också.
- redan (adv) - Det finns redan en del möbler i rummet.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 1 March 2009, 11:14 PM
- iniquitous (adj) - He conquered the iniquitous habit of argument.
- asceticism (n) - Following a strong tradition of asceticism, he tried to punish his body.
- credulous (adj) - Only a credulous person would believe that these objects has fallen from the sky.
- isotropic (adj) - The universe is approximately homogeneous and isotropic.
- apodictically (adj) - No scientific theory is apodictically true.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 1 March 2009, 6:12 PM Some time last year a customer who runs a Pitman Shorthand course in Brisbane contacted me. Shorthand is really fascinating and, without knowing it, it was my first real introduction to linguistics because the whole system is phonetic. I had found one of the original Pitman shorthand books in the restricted section of the library at UQ. It was so old that the pages were falling apart - kind of exciting, like a lost art.
It's hard to find shorthand books these days, but I've managed to collect a few - even some reading books. One of the really weird things about reading shorthand is you can read the authors accent (usually British).
Here's a shorthand cheat sheet that I put together for a bit of fun, and just in case all those books disappear one day.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 26 February 2009, 12:00 PM
- samt (conj) - Det finns svenskt glas, svenska kläder samt några svenska expediter.
- nog (adv) - Det är stor nog.
- bara (adv) - Bara drygt 2 procent av alla svenskar arbetar inom jordbruket.
- i (prep) - Kiruna ligger i Lappland, ett landskap i norra Sverige.
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Posted by Roger Keays, 25 February 2009, 12:00 PM
- gärna (adv) - Han dricker gärna vin till maten.
- framför (prep) - Äter de bara en smörgås framför teven på kvällen.
- sedan (conj) - Och sedan har hon lunch.
- för att (conj) - Han har gått ut för att handla.
- genom (prep) - Hon tittar ut genom fönstret.
- ungefär (adv) - Han skriver ungefär ett kapitel varje dag.
- ganska (adv) - Han trivs ganska bra på jobbet.
- före (prep) - Före klockan 12, han ...
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Posted by Roger Keays, 19 February 2009, 1:10 PM
/**
* Formats log messages onto one line only with only the time, level and
* message. The date is ommitted because the log files are rotated daily
* anyway.
*/
public class LaconicFormatter extends Formatter {
@Override
public String format(LogRecord record) {
return new SimpleDateFormat("HH:mm:ss ").format(
new Date(record.getMillis())) +
record.getLevel().getName().substring(0, 4) + " " +
record.getMessage() + "\n";
}
}
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