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2019-12-12
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A Hike into the Wilderness
Today is December 9, 2019. I have really been wanting to get some exercise the last few days after a few weeks of less walking than no ...
2019-11-20
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Writing Books
In the late 1960s, I first considered myself a writer. I graduated from high school in 1970, something that will help you understand this blog. In sch ...
2019-11-19
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Getting Lost in China Again!
As if getting lost in Shenyang once was not enough, I accidentally tried to do it again! About two weeks after my last adventure as described in yeste ...
2019-11-18
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Getting lost in China!
When I started learning Chinese on Feb. 26, 2004, I picked up a phrase book in a bookstore and by the end of the day I said, "I speak Chinese." I coul ...
2019-11-17
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My re-return to Dioenglish
During the past three years, I've only posted one blog here. I'd like to change that. As my last blog noted, life changes. I don't have much to say at ...
2018-11-11
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2018 and Beyond
Well, it has been more than a year since I posted a blog here. "Why?" you might ask. Life changes and this site has changed. As for my life, here's a ...
2016-07-29
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US Presidential Election
One thing is certain. This is the most interesting US Presidential election that I have ever seen, and most Americans will agree. This election will ...
2016-05-01
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Watching the News
Disasters happen every day. A 16 year old girl is throw from a carnival ride and dies. A policeman in one state punches a woman who tried (and genera ...
2016-04-13
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Dreams: April 13, 2016
Several years ago, someone suggested we write about our dreams. Here's what I just now dreamed. The world was ending. In the late 1900s, I worked fo ...
2016-03-28
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America's Revolution
The United States is about to undergo a revolution that will make the French Revolution or the Cultural Revolution seem like a tea party. Indeed, we ...
2016-03-04
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"The kind may die, or I may die, or the horse may even learn to fly."
My mom often said, "The kind may die, or I may die, or the horse may even learn to fly."Why? That's the purpose of this blog, to teach you a new sayi ... -
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How To Not Manage Your Computer Files
While trying to back up my 2015 photos, I moved one folder to the new location. Then, I decided to clean out my recycle bin before moving the ...
2016-02-19
2016-02-10
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Bad things happen!
Bad things happen to everyone. However, at my age, I'm taking a different perspective about the news. With the internet, we hear about very bad thing ...
2015-12-02
2015-09-14
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Plagiarism
Plagiarism? Can you spell it? Do you know the word? If you are a scientist or writer, you probably do. I'm sending this note (bcc) to a couple frien ...
2015-09-13
2015-09-02
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The World in 2152
Having been born in 1952, I wonder what the world will be like in 2152. I think I know and it gets pretty ugly. First, I've been hearing all my lif ...
2015-06-25
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Introextrovert
My first wife called my an introvert and hermit, but she was wrong. My doc got it right ten years later when he called me a "Type A personality." Why ...
2015-06-21
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The New War
The United States long ago renamed the Department of War as the Department of Defense. But I'm thinking on a broader scale. For example, in 1991 I ma ...
2015-06-13
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Favoring boys over girls
Many times, I've heard it said that Chinese families prefer to have a boy child over a girl child. Supposedly, this has created a population imbalanc ...
2015-06-11
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From the net
My nephew posted something very similar to this on Facebook and, since I'm 1/8 Delaware Indian , I decided to post it here. I have thought the same ...
2015-05-30
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Travel or trip
On another website, a Chinese person asked how to use the words travel and trip. Here's a unique response for Dioenglish folks. Travel - verb; trip ...
2015-05-29
2015-05-28
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餐厅 (Canteen)
I suspect the word "餐厅" is where Chinese people get the word "canteen" from. I also suspect that the US military first started using the word "cant ...
2015-05-15
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Flying, walking on air
I've been flying for years. One of my favorite flights, from Los Angeles to Yosemite National Park in California, took about 15 minutes and the fanta ...
2015-03-26
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Personal statement
This note started as a message to a student. I thought it might be useful to publish here. The student asked, "I was wondering which aspects of me s ...
2015-02-25
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Sedgehead?
This was an email sent to answer some question. Question 4 is "What is a sedgehead?" 1. what does "rattle my cage " mean? This is a common idio ...
2015-02-24
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Phil-osophy
"You think too much," my oldest sister told me several years ago. Bear in mind that I am many things. First and foremost, I am a carpenter. My father ...
2015-02-09
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Zen Buddhism?
Stars stare down from the desert sky A meteor rips the night Silence still prevails ******************** I've been listening to a video on Buddhi ...
2015-02-07
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A college course in poetry, in 500 words or less.
There are many things about poems. Some people teach an entire college course about poems. Here are a few basic ideas. Poets are given the right t ...
2015-02-06
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One Day Can Change Your Life
One day can change your life. Here's a few that changed mine. April 20, 1952 - I was born. Without that, nothing else would have happened! Oct. 15, ...
2015-02-03
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Statistics: p values
I was discussing statistics with a friend who had no training in statistics. I sent an email similar to this message. Here's a modified version for e ...
2015-01-30
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Tomorrow is the Most Important Day in My Life
Someoneasked, "Can you tell me the meaning of this sentence: 'Tomorrow is the most important thing in life?'" Today is not important. I can handle t ...
2015-01-22
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Overpopulation, Part III: Keep It Simple
Ok, here's the simple version. Is the earth overpopulated? We need ten acres per person, because each person needs 1/2 acre of land for food to gro ...
2015-01-19
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Overpopulation, Part II: an Aging Population
In response to someone's comment on my last blog: When I first thought about the long term, I didn't know what the humanpopulation woul ...
2015-01-18
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Overpopulation
Our world is very overpopulated and the United States has become a major contributor to population growth by continuing to encourage large families. ...
2015-01-16
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Sedgehead's Standard Note Number 4a: Appositives
Sedgehead's Standard Note Number 4a APPOSITIVES Appositives are strange little things many non-native and native speakers of Engli ...
2015-01-03
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He, she, and it
Headlines: Many languages consider gender very important. As often happens, I started to write a response to someone on another website and expanded ... -
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Dashing though the snow!
XYZ Dashes My main client put out a simple message to explain dashes. It says: 1. Hyphen, en ...
2014-12-31
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Drive, ride, or fly?
"Flamen" wrote a blog on Dioenglish about the safety of flying a plane or riding in a car. This blog started as a response to his/her note. I rode a ...
2014-12-30
2014-12-23
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Staying Busy
One of my Dioenglish friends sent me a message saying I had not been here for a while and that I was missed. Thank you. I tried to write a response t ... -
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Active and Passive Voice / The Importance of Revisions
Sometimes, I write long emails. Then, I turn them into blogs if they are useful here. Here's a note I wrote to someone whose graduate school "persona ...
2014-10-14
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The E word
As a scientist, I think a lot about things of scientific importance. For example, as one news reporter said this week, ice ages happen about once eve ...
2014-09-15
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Quotation marks
Someone asked me about quotation marks. Here's my response: Personally, for many years, I preferred and used ". and not ." because I thought, "T ...
2014-08-10
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Teachers and Educators
This blog came from note I wrote to a friend. I have worked as a teacher for more than six years of my career, and a couple years in a hospital. Dur ...
2014-07-20
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The World as We Know It.
Some time ago, I wrote a series of blogs on the "Coming Global Famine." As I did, I realized all the traditional reasons for famine (war, climate, et ...
2014-06-16
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Joining the Flat Earth Society
The "Flat Earth Society" may have been given a bad rap (been represented in a bad light). As a scientist, I have a theory that supports the idea that ...
2014-06-10
2014-06-06
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Life in China
Well, I don't want to post pics with this blog. My main goal is to say I'm back home in Arkansas (USA) again after six weeks in China. I thoroughly e ...
2014-06-01
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A letter to China and the world
A letter to China How can I be poor? It is impossible in my mind. Nevertheless, I hear of Americans wh ...
2014-02-23
2014-02-10
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The past three years.
Often, when people as me questions about English, I answer with a blog so that others can benefit from the ideas presented. The question this time w ...
2014-02-01
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Ten Thousand Hours
Once again, an email to a Chinese friend got too long so I posted it here. The friend wrote:"Thank you to share these things with me!" I responded: ...
2014-01-31
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How I became a writer
A Chinese friend asked me how to become a writer. She wants to become a writer. So, here's what I wrote in an email. As for gettin ...
2014-01-20
2014-01-16
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Dirty Words
This blog started as a response to someone on another website. I have modified and expanded it for use here.WhatI call "foullanguage" is, in my humbl ...
2014-01-10
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Slip-sliding away
Yesterday, I wrote about weather. Today, I experienced it! I stepped outside, slipped on the ice at the top of two stairs, landed on my rear end, boun ...
2014-01-09
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Weather Words (OR) The Sky is Falling!
The sky is falling. Today we had all sorts of precipitation, rain, snow, sleet, freezing rain, a wintery mix, and ice pellets. Glossary: Freezing r ...
2014-01-08
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Birdfeed and overpopulation
Don't get me wrong. Birds made me rich, as I note at the end of this blog. Americans have been used to getting what they want all their lives. My ge ...
2014-01-06
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A Blue Norther
The Arctic Express, a Blue Norther, or a frigid blast arrived overnight leaving a heavy dusting of snow on the ground. Every time I step outside my f ...
2013-12-30
2013-12-25
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Christmas in California
Today's blog is a new part of my autobiography, Windsong. 圣诞快乐。 Christmas in California 165a Every onc ...
2013-12-08
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Does anyone have the words to Uudam's song about is mother
Does anyone have the words to Uudam's song about his mother? He was on "China's Got Talent" in 2011. Here are some words from youtube that might help ...
2013-11-03
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Animal idioms
Calling wolf: claiming that something is dangerous when there is no real danger. Like water off a duck's back: something that doesn't bother ... -
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Do you like Chinese women?
Previously, Chinese women did not attract me. But before you blow this note out of proportion or get angry because I would even discuss such ...
2013-10-31
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How do you rejoin DioEnglish if you forgot your password.
A friend tells me: Sedgehead, I have not been on the Dioenglish website for along time and I almost forgot my account. I remember that this happened ...
2013-10-13
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How I learn Chinese!
I have a disadvantage! I'm trying to learn Chinese without studying much in grammar books. I found it far too challenging to study: 1) the meaning of ...
2013-10-10
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A Shocking Experience
I've had ongoing problems with neck pain since driving to California in Dec. 2011 and initially undiagnosed after hauling brush and branches after an ... -
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My Calligraphy
Ok, so I'm not sure how to spell calligraphy, but I finally tried my hand at it today, brush, inkwell, and all. I've been studying Chinese for nearly ...
2013-10-04
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Do you speak English?
SunnyV said, "Sometimes, people assume others cannot speak English and ask: 'Do you speak English?' It is quite embarrassing for our Chinese friends. ...
2013-09-29
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How to Not Study English.
Ok, so I study Chinese. But you can apply my ideas to any language. Vocabulary: Charms - items used in magic. Incomprehensible - unable to be comp ...
2013-09-22
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泰州？ (Taizhou?)
Today,a virtual friend in China again invited me to Taizhou to teach English for a year or two. I'm seriously considering the offer.My long-time frie ...
2013-08-04
2013-07-20
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Obama's Historic Speech
The President’s Speech First, I’d like to give my friends some background grammar and vocabulary to help you understand this blog: ...
2013-07-08
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Someone has to die!
American law is different than European law. In Europe, food has to be proved safe before it can be sold. In the U. S., someone has to die, their rela ...
2013-06-12
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Human uses of Earth's Resources
Today, I read, " humans appropriate approximately 20% of the global terrestrial net primary production for food, fiber and wood ...
2013-05-18
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Title vs. Profession
Title vs. profession Sometimes my Chinese friends contact me asking specific questions about English. Samantha (not my granddaughter Saman ...
2013-05-12
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There is no right way to write English
There is no right way to write English There is no right way to write English. No one can write it perfectly. Even the best authors no ...
2013-05-10
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Idiom Match Game
Idiom Match Game Today’s blog is a game. Your task is to match the idioms on the left with the meanings on the right. Some meanings ar ...
2013-05-05
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Why War Works
Why War Works The history of war, a topic I have not studied in detail, goes back about as far as human history. Wa ...
2013-04-28
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Dreams, Tsunamis, and Christians
I had an interesting dream just now. It is 02:35 a.m. in Arkansas, although I'm in North Carolina. In the first part of the dream I was taking a col ...
2013-04-26
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Roadside parks and herbicides
Roadside parks and herbicides Roadside parks (see vocabulary words below, if needed) have been an important part of my life. W ...
2013-04-16
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The Price of a Modern Society
The United States falsely claims to be in a perpetual state of war. Having stuck our noses repeatedly into other people's business, we've stirred up ...
