Monthly Archives: February 2012

Short words in North S?mi

Posted on 2012-02-23 by colin

You can form questions by putting the verb at the beginning of the sentence and adding -go. ja is “and”, ahte is a subordinator, ii is “is not”, dat is “it”, dan is “its”, juos is “if”, I think. More … Continue reading →

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Materialism and magic bottles

Posted on 2012-02-05 by colin

Organic chemists know about the “magic bottle” effect. This is where if you use a particular bottle of stuff, the reaction goes, and if you use a different, though nominally identical one, the reaction doesn’t. I can think of at … Continue reading →

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