A lot of people who think they are tone-deaf and thus can’t sing, have just never been properly trained. Is anyone really for real unable to distinguish tones?

Another of my partial knowledge of languages is Thai. It also has five tones. You can say, “Dang dang dang dang dang.”, each word having a different tone. It means, “Wet wood burns well, doesn’t it?”

Other than the tones, Thai grammar is fairly simple. A basic vocabulary, and you are on your way…

“Czech-” never referred to a geographical entity until 1918. The modern Czech Republic is made up of the old provinces of Bohemia and Moravia. So if your neighbors’ families originally emigrated to the US before the Great War, they would think of themselves as “Bohemians”, who spoke a language that called “Bohemian” or “Czech”.

I can’t think of the rules fast enough — so yes to the “it sounds right”. Or not.

When I started (in 1991), all those who could speak English did want to practice their English. I did get a lovely young Slovak woman to “teach” me, but we soon were mostly speaking English. She’s been my lovely wife since 1994; and she’s still beautiful. Too bad we couldn’t visit Neo, but almost 10,000 miles of driving in 2 months was far more than wife wanted, when we visited last summer.

Funny, I was born in Chicago, to German – English+Irish parents, who moved to L.A. When my wife had a conference in Chicago a few years ago, I took vacation and visited her and my cousins & uncle Ken – who is a Knights of Columbus active Catholic. And goes to a Polish & Czech & a little Slovak Catholic church nearby. It was nice to visit.

On indictments – DOJ should have indicted McCabe. Better to indict and go to trial and get “not guilty beyond a reasonable doubt”, rather than no trial. DOJ deep state folk, plus Barr? plus Durham? disagreed, and stop investigation/ prosecution.

At this point, I’ll believe indictments when I see them. Right now I see these main possibilities:
1) dribbles of nothing before the election, with Trump claiming unfair persecution of him and double standards.
1a) after Trump wins, bigger investigation and indictments
1b) after Trump wins, “new procedures” are put into place so it “won’t happen again!”
1c) after Trump loses, (1b) but with lots of old guilty folk coming back into power

2) big push by Durham to get some indictments before the election; (1a) but before election, with more coming.

3) small push by Durham to get a few indictments, but mostly letting it peter out.

Can’t avoid thinking about it, often – so we might as well write some of out thoughts down.

Man, I hope you are right.

Oh and make sure each one knows the first to flip gets the best deal! That’s also how the system works.

All too well, Roy, though I can say I had precisely these imagined objects of Democrat/MSM turpitude in mind as early as Jan. 2017. So also, I believe, did Trump and his inner circle as they considered how to proceed: hence the extremely prolonged process we are witness to. This is political prudentiary decision making in action. It’s a knife edge, akin to traversing Charibdis-Scylla.