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Sunday, July 31, 2011

Globish

Do you know Globish?
Globish is a simplified version of English.
It uses only 1500 basic words and their derivatives.
(We can add some technical words if all of us understand and need them.)
It recommends keeping each sentence short, at most 15 words.
It doesn't use complicated grammar. For example, future perfect continuous.

Saturday, July 30, 2011

Alcohol Drinks

I write this because my friend asked me why I don't drink any alcoholic drinks. I think we all know about the bad health effect of the alcoholic, we know that it cause a huge damage to our health and body.

He told me that there are a lot of people who drink and have good health, maybe more than the non-drunk people. The truth is that they aren't healthy, they just looking like healthy. This is a big problem that the people mistake it. I know people they think they are getting better when they drink more; they think there are advantages when drinking. Yes there are few advantages, but the disadvantages are much more than the advantages.

I will not talk about the health damages because

Friday, July 29, 2011

can write but can't read!

This is one of the weirdest things I have ever known.
Imagine that woke up one day and there is nothing unusual, everything is fine.
There wasn't any different from any other morning.
But when try to read the newspaper you find it something else, the words and the letters are weird, like it's form other country or planet.

This happened to Howard Engel, a Canadian novelist. He had suffered a stroke. For him the words and letters don't make any sense. It calls ALEXIA or "Word Blindness". But he could recognize the photos and the other shapes normally.

Actually Mr. Howard Engel is getting paid for writing detective stories.