Sunday, May 16, 2010

Ultra Clear Treat Diverticulitis

rock'n'roller's Room of the Scirocco in a free Milan


Milan Cassano D 'Adda with roller. 30 km along the canal Martesana to go in the countryside, the colored farmhouses in Milan. Be transported by air in mid-May and bloomed him feel a sense of unconditional freedom . I love Milan amaze me when he knows that. Eight wheels and a great desire to pounds lighter in its most precious and hidden.
Grazie, luogo dai mille volti perché mi sorprendi sempre... e quasi quasi mi hai convinto.

Friday, May 14, 2010

Naming Information Cannot Be Located: The Target

truth nazi

We know that nothing is better able to warm the hearts and bring to life the most heated debates on Internet, because the minutiae of grammar. One can write all he wants, nowadays, there is freedom of expression. So it has come to accept almost quietly even more outrageous opinions, provided they are set in an Italian formally and semantically correct ("the blacks that we take away the women and work, I say we need to do a clean sweep", "aargh , what a anacoluthon? and then do not say Negro ").

Why, what evil does, in essence, ignorance of the language? Well, it depends. The grammar nazi people are pretty obnoxious, and almost always more detestable than those who criticize, why divert attention from what should be the topic of a discussion to be obstinate, so too dogmatic and intolerant, about things of no account such as the position of an accent or an apostrophe. It also appears that the level of hatred unleashed by an error is directly proportional to its insignificance, or its ambiguity.

Often those who are referred to as errors are inexcusable even if you take the trouble to check carefully. He writes "What" or "what is" (without the apostrophe)? Every year thousands of unfortunate people are condemned to social death for using the first spelling. The reason is that this is a case of truncation of the word (as you would say "in this case), and elision of a vowel before another vowel (" another "instead of" an other ") . But the same distinction between truncation and elision is actually quite smoky. Spelled "what" has survived only in relatively rare cases in our language (as opposed to the very common "a" instead of "a"), which makes the expression "what is" the word is still felt, subjectively as a whole and Elisa, rather che troncata. Se "qual" sparisse del tutto dall'uso e sostituito ovunque da "quale", sarebbe difficile giustificare ancora la regola. In definitiva, la maggior parte delle grammatiche normative indica "qual è" come espressione da usarsi, e solo per questo motivo è giusto attenervisi, ma non per questo l'altro uso è da considerarsi un abominio.

Qualcosa di simile avviene con la regola del "sé", che perde l'accento davanti a "stesso". Perché mai? Perché, si dice, l'accento serve a risolvere le ambiguità, mentre non può esserci ambiguità possibile nel caso di "se stesso". Ma quando mai si usa l'accento solo per risolvere le ambiguità? ma chi l'ha say? the "self" is different from the conjunction "if", and consequently a different word, written in a different way, that's all. There is no rule that says "tea" (the drink) loses focus when it is not likely to be confused with the pronoun "you", and it would be absurd (not to mention that in the case of "themselves", the misunderstanding it is possible). Yeah, but to explain the range of those fussy people, now.

say nothing of the fact that often you would like to abolish certain expressions not so bad but because they are considered unfair by an ethical point of view. For example, someone proposes not to precede never an article before a name, even when the name is that of a woman. That is not "Gasparri and Carfagna," but "Gasparri and Carfagna, simply in order to remedy an odious discrimination and a prejudice hidden in the folds of the language. This silent because of things like I talked . Silent and of the fact that often these people are captivated by the language seriously believe that a particular language is "superior" to another, richer or more expressive, except not being able to indicate a unit of measurement for the richness and expressiveness a language (beyond the anecdotal).

In short, it's not that bad that the speaker thinks evil. That said, however, Nanni Moretti is also right: words are important. Where are they? If ignorance is a good rules of spelling which can easily be forgiven (and easily remedied, for that matter) and if the error can happen, especially when writing in haste and in informal settings (such as a chat), whereas the are too many errors you can not deny that what makes a bad impression.

A person who gives you ever bother to check whether at least put spaces between the words and the other, or some vestige of punctuation in a long time, a person who makes little effort to be understood, to be easily readable by all. It's like a badly built website, or scritto tutto in comic sans: non c'è nulla di essenzialmente sbagliato nell'uso di un font al posto di un altro, salvo che alcuni vengono a noia molto presto, o addirittura limitano la leggibilità del testo. E $3 $(r1v373 (0$ì, pr1m4 0 p01 qµ4£(µn0 v1 m4nÐ3rà 4 ƒ4n(µ£0.

Poi c'è quel tipo di espressioni che si fanno detestare solo per il loro abuso, e denotano una certa pigrizia, una propensione alle frasi fatte, al luogo comune. Magari sono espressioni originariamente innocenti, o che al loro apparire erano pure intelligenti, ma sono come battute umoristiche che ripetute centinaia di volte non fanno più ridere: "a prescindere", "ma anche no", "piuttosto che", "nella misura in cui", "per certi versi".

Peggio di questo, c'è quel tipo di errore che è sintomo non tanto di ignoranza, ma di una reale confusione mentale. Chi non riesce a completare una semplice frase soggetto-verbo-predicato, chi sbaglia continuamente i tempi verbali, chi non sa concordare i soggetti con i verbi e gli aggettivi, beh, è qualcosa di più che poco pratico con i magici arcani della nostra lingua, e con le sue sottigliezze. È confuso, nella migliore delle ipotesi. E questo comincia ad essere un problema di sostanza, non solo di forma.

Noi censori dovremmo combattere di più per questioni di sostanza, for trifles on accents, but I do not see many people around who work hard for an Italian well-written, in the sense that is understandable and correct from the standpoint of logical analysis. I say more. In reality we should be indignant for the wrong reasons, for the fallacies that people let slip with ease in their speeches. These are the things we should not forgive, and these are the real dangers to society.

John Allen Paulos has written a book, Innumeracy on numerical illiteracy, in which he denounces the fact that there is much more forgiving (and self-indulgence) to be severe and ignorance total more elementari nozioni matematiche, che per la scarsa dimestichezza con la lingua. Nessuno vi escluderà mai da un salotto perché non sapete che il diametro di un cerchio sta circa 3,14 volte nella sua circonferenza, o che il lato e la diagonale di un quadrato sono incommensurabili. Anzi, la gente se ne compiace. "Io quando vedo un'equazione mi va in tilt il cervello, ih ih".

Ma questo è un genere d'ignoranza (e non parlo solo della matematica, ovviamente) che produce danni seri, produce Sandro Roberto Giacobbo per dirne una. Produce una cultura di professori di greco e latino che passano il tempo libero a scrivere deliranti pamphlet contro le scie chimiche. Produce persone apparentemente colte (Who claim to be cultured and educated, at least), but write things like that.

produces journalistic distortions that go unnoticed, as some speakers when you let slip that die every day one million people homeless in the streets of America, and nobody blinks not realizing that it is unpacking the scale (for most people , "one million" simply means "a very large number, a bit 'as the natives of the Amazon who can not count more than two). We remain fascinated when people say that every minute in the Amazon are deforested four football stadiums, but do not we ever count how many football stadiums contains the Amazon. We get enchanted by numerical hocus-pocus, continuously, without ever alerting the critical spirit.

I have some respect for the grammar nazi, at the bottom in their little play them even a meritorious work. Only when I meet one, I want to ask how to calculate the area of \u200b\u200ba trapezoid, or solve a simple quadratic equation. Or the chemical formula of salt. Do not expect much, I think. But if you do not know, golly, go back to school.

Monday, May 3, 2010

Cervix Before Having Period

the maypole

Everyone knows the greasy pole as an innocent popular game, where various objects (perhaps hams and food) are tied on top of a pole with soap, and that competitors should try to reach by climbing. But this is a very ancient tradition, and meaningful.

to "plant the May" was an ancient tradition and spread throughout Europe was the use, on the night of the last day of April and 1 May, the youth of the community planted branches flowers, young trees in village squares or in front of houses, and in particular at the door or window of the girl to whom you wanted to pay homage. [...]. That of May 1 was a rite of fertility related to the awakening of nature and to the memory of the cults of ancient trees. It is the evolution of this tradition we have both the practice of planting the tree of liberty, popular in the French Revolution and political events, however, it was heavily influenced by both the current celebration of May Day. (Ottavia Niccoli, stories every day in a city of the seventeenth century , Laterza, p. 67).

The official version of the origins of May Day in reality tells another story, more directly linked to workers' demands, but it is said that the two versions are incompatible with each other, and that is that the date of May 1 has not been chosen in order to overlay it with another holiday before, as we have seen a noble tradition. The

May, the delicate floral tribute targeted at girls, but could also have implications more grotesque: the book of Niccoli tells of how the cheeses are sometimes goliardic uploading of content, if not openly defamatory of girls targeted for several reasons. This is the case, for example, a girl of Bologna, which he found in his porch a pole which had been linked to sexual objects of meaning, then clear: figs, a male member made of paper, a doll ("prostitute") in rags. The suspect of the joke, he turned to the girl unwanted attention and wanted to punish her so, was shown in the rector of the parish (some things never change). Sometimes they were even on the pretext for a number of brawls and fisticuffs.

It was during the seventeenth century, however, the Church began to be subjected to strict discipline this and other occasions of festivity. Initially they tried to turn in a more modest and the meaning of certain religious rites, such as ensuring that the tribute was not addressed to a girl on earth, but the Virgin Mary, giving rise to the various festivities of the Marian month of May. Even the "flowers", the small sacrifices to be offered to the Virgin, a practice that are born in the eighteenth century as a further evolution of the rite. But in some places, as in Bologna, the party came to be abolished altogether, claiming that the various disturbances and quarrels it arose. In reality, as well as spiritual reasons behind the trouble was caused by party politics, too, often having the meaning of May Day calendar that is tied to local power in opposition to the ecclesiastical. This

in Italy, and as far as the Catholic Church. In Europe, the tradition of Maibaum and survives in northern Europe, where the stakes are placed at the entrance, sometimes with the stylized representation of local products. Its subversive potential, however, has never been entirely forgotten. Just think of the British horror film "The Wicker Man," 1973. In the film, a policeman arrives on an island to investigate the disappearance of a girl. He discovers that all the island's inhabitants are followers of a strange religion that worships the sun, and especially at its center, orgiastic rites of fertility. The police suspects that the missing girl is about to be sacrificed, but eventually discovers that the island has been drawn through deception, and that the sacrifice is really him. In one of the most beautiful scenes of the film (there are many), the island boys dancing around a maypole while singing a song that highlights the phallic symbolism.

But the Maypole in America was at the center of a famous historical episode, this time really happened. I like to tell, because è quello da cui traggono origine sia il mio nick che il nome che ho dato a questo blog. Thomas Morton (1579-1647) fu un colonialista americano, che separandosi dai Puritani fondò nel 1626 in Massachussetts la colonia di Merrymount , improntata a un progetto sociale utopistico e per i tempi piuttosto libertario. Composta da soli uomini liberi (Morton era fortemente contrario alla schavitù), la colonia prevedeva un certo grado d'integrazione e di collaborazione con i nativi, fatto questo che da solo giustificava i sospetti in ambito puritano. Ma soprattutto, la sua religiosità, pur se cristiana, accoglieva vari elementi paganeggianti e arcaizzanti, comprendenti il gioioso culto della natura e abitudini un po' libertine.

La pietra dello scandalo fu proprio l'erezione, nel 1628, di un Maypole intorno al quale, scrisse orripilato il reverendo Bradford nella sua storia della piantagione di Plymouth, i coloni si misero a danzare e bere per vari giorni, invitando le donne indiane ad unirsi a loro, e cantando odi alla madre di Cupido e altre divinità classiche, come in un moderno Baccanale (che la festa fosse anche un'occasione, per i coloni, di cercare moglie fra i nativi non è una cosa di cui venisse fatto troppo mistero, del resto). In realtà non erano alieni nemmeno motivi economici dall'ostilità dei Puritani, vista la prosperità della colonia di Merrymount che, grazie ai commerci di pelle con gli Indiani, minacciava il monopolio the colony of Plymouth.

However, the Puritans decided it was too, broke with their troops in the colony (meeting little resistance, perhaps because of the fumes of alcohol), cutting down the tree, and captured Thomas Morton, who was first put in the pillory, and then exiled to an island to starve to death (if it were not for the help offered, again, by the natives). As soon regained a bit 'of forces managed to flee to England. Back in America after a year, he was arrested again and riesiliato in England, barely surviving the treatment meted out during the trip. Morton in England, thanks to the support of King Charles I had great sympathy for the Puritans, became very famous as a champion of freedom against the colonial regimes and genocide of the Indians, and published the book New Canaan Inglese, where he narrated his adventures, the story of the colony of Merrymount, and principles which had inspired it.

The civil war turned back the favors of fortune against him, that he returned to America and imprisoned a third time, then ended his days in Maine. But the episode is the Maypole in all these years, remained as one of the deep scars in American history, a kind of myth, like the Salem witch trials, or the story of the princess Pocahontas. He was told by Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Maypole of Merrymount ) dal poeta William Carlos Williams ( In the American grain ), e svolge un certo ruolo anche nel libro di Philip Roth L'animale morente .

Così, tanto per ricordare che in America non ci sono stati solo Buffali Bill e generali Custer.