as a result of the meeting today between canada and mexico, my sources tell me that canada has agreed to send trainers to aid the mexican national hockey team, and, in return, mexico will send mediators to help end the longrunning dispute between edwin and the rest of i mother earth.

somebody asked me if i spoke hindi today. of course not.

when i was a kid, i thought learning french was inefficient and stupid and a pointless waste of time. why do we need two words for everything? what a waste of perfectly good synapses.

it's easy for me to talk about english as a lingua france because i speak it, right? maybe it's not fair to everybody.

i think a good compromise would be for everybody to learn reconstructed proto-indo-european as the common lingua franca. that way, everybody has to learn the common lingua franca, and it's relevant to almost everybody.