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• November 10th, 2006

  Why am I supposed to care about David Lynch movies?

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• November 9th, 2006

  How can I figure the real long-term economic costs of bond issues and state/national debt?

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• November 15th, 2006

  I liked "Scenes from a Marriage" by Ingmar Bergman. Has he made any similar films?

  Bergman goes a lot of different directions over his career. You should try 'Fanny and Alexander' to match the scope and the familial depths of Scenes. If you want to really dig in, he's perhaps at his best (well, leaving aside the amazing 'Wild Strawberries') in his trilogy on faith: 'Through a Glass Darkly', 'Winter Light', and 'The Silence'. The second, especially, anticipates some of the brutal intimacy of the relationship in 'Scenes'. Boiled down to only two hours, it is extremely potent and just about his best work.
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• November 11th, 2006

  What is the difference between "ironic" and "ironical"?

  the difference in common usage is that ironical particularly pertains to speech and tone not situations as often
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• November 10th, 2006

  Why am I supposed to care about David Lynch movies?

  fer real. what self-indulgence!
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• November 10th, 2006

  Why do we use the letter 'g' for a 'j' sound?

  Both 'y' and 'j' actually have related patterns of development, from what I understand. 'Y' entered the romance languages originally as what they still in certain contexts call a 'greek i', in that it used a traditionally greek character to take on certain 'foreign' types of sounds. Likewise, the 'j' in the same tradition has developed to accomodate the space between the hard 'g' (as in golf) and the traditional latinate/germanic 'j' (an 'i' with a 'y'-type sound like in the names of Roman gods and in the name Jung, for instance). So where a language like Italian still uses a softened G (Giovanni) like others use a J, we've opened up to the greater phonemic range that the extra letter gives us. If you think of names and their origins, the difference is instructive, names of northern origin tend to have a 'g' whether hard or soft (Gerold, George, Gary), while 'J' names tend to fit the softened 'G' sound and come from the South (John, James, Jacob).
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• November 9th, 2006

  When does one use the word "affect" vs. "effect"?

  Affect (verb) = to make change; to influence. Affect (noun) = demeanor; feeling. Effect (noun) = a result; a consequence; an impression; a phenomenon. Effect, as Bob said, (verb) = to bring about
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