Tag: writing
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Jamuary 20, 2021 – Made up words – Iskis Gallickgus
This one was fun. Iskis Gallickgus! So, if you don’t know by now, I have a bit of training in different languages. Though I’m sadly only really fluent in English, I’ve learned enough in other languages (I’m working on Mandarin Chinese right now) to understand phonemes and word construction, that is, how words sound and…
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Jamuary: What I’ve learned so far
A few weeks back I wrote a song of sorts instructing to “just get it done”. That song killed two birds with one stone: not only did I meet that day’s challenge requirements, it was something that I know I need to hear every now and then. One of the big problems with being a…
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Jamuary 18, 2021 – Start with the Chorus – It’s over
This one was fun and was originally a lot more vulgar than the current version. This is another jingle that’s been floating around my head for a long time, years, in fact. It’s typically something I think and sing at the end of the work week. I don’t even know when it first entered my…
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Jamuary 16, 2021 – Dissonance – Dissonant Variations
This one wasn’t easy mainly because it required a lot of study on my part. I’ll confess that I didn’t really know what a dissonant chord was before starting. I knew, but I wouldn’t be able to tell anybody what they were or give examples other than to tell them, “It sounds weird, not like…
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10 Years of blogging
April 4th, 2020 marked ten years since I first started blogging. If we’ve known each other for that long you might faintly recall that time I started my blog: it was just after I’d finished teaching in South Korea for a year and was travelling through southeast Asia. Here is my very first post: What…