by isaokato | Apr 8, 2010 | Post
In a perfect world of language, everything would work according to simple rules. Dictionaries would have fewer pages and grammar boot camps would be shut down. Well, reality does not work that way and here we are, struggling with mundane grammar rules such...
by isaokato | Apr 6, 2010 | Post
To use or not to use articles, that is the questionWhat are articles?Grammar-wise, articles are types of adjectives which specify the noun they designate. There are two types of articles: One is the indefinite article (“a” and “an”) that denotes an unspecified item,...
by isaokato | Apr 4, 2010 | Post
After her breakout single “Toy Soldier,” Martika and her creative team tried not to get caught up by the “Second album of death” curse that plagued so many 80s singers. The album title (Martica’s Kitchen) was taken from a Japanese novelist’s bestseller “Kitchen” to...
by isaokato | Apr 4, 2010 | Post
My friend, a Spanish teacher, stopped asking his Taiwanese students “What did you do when you were a kid?” (¿Qué hiciste cuando eras un niño?) as a conversation starter in his class because he kept hearing only one word: Estudie (I studied). That’s it? He asks, and...
by isaokato | Apr 2, 2010 | Post
This is a guest post from Sherry Lamoreaux, who edits my blog, in response to this paragraph in my previous entry:In other words, when it comes to reading, what matters is being able to carry the book around and have “an experience” when I feel like it. We do not care...
by isaokato | Apr 1, 2010 | Post
Winger signed with a major label when the hair metal fever was at its climax (also right before the movement’s death – it’s male stuff, after all). Back then, anybody with bleached hair and two guitars could sign a record deal (they once sang about making out...
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