Chicago Typewriter

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The Chicago Typewriter was a model of typewriter from 1899. "Chicago Typewriter" was also a nickname for the Thompson sub-machine gun and the name of the blog of Mark Nabong.

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Archive for September, 2007

The Empire of the Word Strikes Back

Friday, September 28th, 2007

I just finished re-reading Empires of the Word by Nicholas Ostler, a history of language spread. Specifically, it traces the spread of the big language “empires” and their succession. I found it to be excellent, as it was a great combination of history, culture, religion, and linguistics (I have almost no experience with […]

Good news and bad news.

Monday, September 24th, 2007

I don’t have any pants.

Thursday, September 13th, 2007