Linda French's Blog – December 2014 Archive (6)

Every once in a while -- well, every day-- I find my way to Google Translate to decipher a word, phrase, or conversation. Type in the text, read the Google translation. But oh my! I'm certain that some parts of the translations are not what the original writer intended, since they make no sense. And I'm sometimes wondering how Google Translate is butchering my American English. Advice to self: steer clear of idioms. I have a really good example of this phenomenon:  Google Translates "All I…

So. OK. EVERYTHING I've said about ANYTHING has been appearing on the MAIN PAGE?!!! OK fine. Now I know. At least I think I know.  There's probably all kinds of stuff I could be 'in' on if I, too, had been reading the MAIN PAGE! --Linda

Before I stumbled on IUOMA, I didn't know what a 'boekie' is. Except in the betting world with different spelling. I have made many, many little books, but just call them 'little books,' unless they are journals and then they are 'journals' or 'art journals.' So now I know that I have been making 'boekies'. And journals and art journals.  And mail-art.  --LInda

Such as this blog post. WHERE does it appear besides my page? Makes me nuts. Guess I'll go do art.  --Linda

Is it just me, or does anyone else wander around lost sometimes on the IUOMA site? I keep thinking the stuff I put in will all appear in the expected place, but it's a bit of a tangle. Lots of places to enter stuff that may appear somewhere else. I think. Also, I can't seem to choose what shows up in the slide show on my page. I used to have more patience with this kind  of thing, but I've gotten to expect the mechanical and electronic world to do ONLY what I deliberately direct it to do.…

Today I learned what a 'punnikin' is. I've seen lots of yarn bombing and guerrilla knitting, but did not know that the little dangly things are punnikins. Now I know. Or do I?  Do I have this right?  --LInda