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My day-to-day work is with a combination of C, ksh and PL/SQL. I enjoy asking and answering questions that come up at work. I also dabble in Perl, lua and LaTeX. My boss has asked me to learn Python as well.

My favorite living philosopher is Alvin Plantinga and my favorite dead philosopher is Blaise Pascal. I think Paul of Tarsus is too little credited as a force in Western philosophy. If you think I'm a Christian, you're right.

Where is the one who is wise? Where is the scribe? Where is the debater of this age? Has not God made foolish the wisdom of the world? For since, in the wisdom of God, the world did not know God through wisdom, it pleased God through the folly of what we preach to save those who believe. For Jews demand signs and Greeks seek wisdom, but we preach Christ crucified, a stumbling block to Jews and folly to Gentiles, but to those who are called, both Jews and Greeks, Christ the power of God and the wisdom of God. For the foolishness of God is wiser than men, and the weakness of God is stronger than men. -- 1 Corinthians 1:20-25 (ESV)

At home, I have a potted herb garden, potted dwarfed citrus, and a hanging hummingbird garden. My wife and I are also trying to grow a son, but he's harder to feed and train properly.


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comment How important are accents in written Spanish?
You forgot to say: "Posted from my mobile device." That would have allowed me to +1. ;-) Seriously, the best answers site some sort of authority, not just express an opinion.
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comment Why don't Spanish words start with “sp”?
@Peter: I'm curious about that too. But I didn't even know that there were linguistic rules that explained the issue. Maybe that would make a good separate question?
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accepted Can I learn to roll my R's?
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accepted How outdated is the Spanish of the Reina-Valera Bible?
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comment How outdated is the Spanish of the Reina-Valera Bible?
The comparison is very helpful. Maybe because I don't ever open them side-by-side I've never felt like one version reads better than the others. Mal really doesn't fit with the way I think of this passage. Problemas does. Thank you.
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asked How outdated is the Spanish of the Reina-Valera Bible?
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comment Can I learn to roll my R's?
Learn to pronounce 'r' Japanese in order to pronounce it in Spanish seems a long way to go. Do you happen to have a source for that?
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comment Can I learn to roll my R's?
+1 for "rotacismo". I'll have to look at the exercises.
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comment Can I learn to roll my R's?
I've been singing Spanish-language songs just about every week for years (in a Spanish-language church service). But I haven't focused on pronunciation during those times and not on the R in particular. Practice at home in song seems like a good idea, however. +1
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comment Origin and usage of “¿” and “¡”
@pferor: If you peruse the article I linked to, you'll see that something like the mirrored question mark was first proposed by Marcel Bernhardt, a French poet, in 1899. There have been a large number of proposed irony and sarcasm marks. But these comments are much less about Spanish and much more about typography. ;-)
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accepted Can “los cristales” be translated as “mirrors” or “looking glasses”?