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wooden cabinets clack // and you were there with me too // moment by moment:

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Ur-Fascism

"Irrationalism also depends on the cult of action for action’s sake. Action being beautiful in itself, it must be taken before, or without, any previous reflection. Thinking is a form of emasculation. Therefore culture is suspect insofar as it is identified with critical attitudes. Distrust of the intellectual world has always been a symptom of Ur-Fascism, from Goering’s alleged statement (“When I hear talk of culture I reach for my gun”) to the frequent use of such expressions as “degenerate intellectuals,” “eggheads,” “effete snobs,” “universities are a nest of reds.” The official Fascist intellectuals were mainly engaged in attacking modern culture and the liberal intelligentsia for having betrayed traditional values." Ur-Fascism July 22, 2018 at 04:30PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/1VxKk2o

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Ur-Fascism

"However, even though Nazism was proud of its industrial achievements, its praise of modernism was only the surface of an ideology based upon Blood and Earth (Blut und Boden). The rejection of the modern world was disguised as a rebuttal of the capitalistic way of life, but it mainly concerned the rejection" Ur-Fascism July 22, 2018 at 04:30PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/1VxKk2o

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“The Switch” : Thinking in a foreign (dead) language

"Here’s day 1 TPR in French, or Rico teaching Greek, or do a search for anything TPR, TPRS, WAYK and ‘day 1’." “The Switch” : Thinking in a foreign (dead) language July 22, 2018 at 04:17PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2oOiGW3

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Related: Query If you’re looking for websites that are related to a specific site, you can use ‘related:’ Example: related:boardgamegeek.com" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Link: Query You can find sites that have linked to a specific URL through ‘link:’ Example: We wanted to find sites that linked to this Lifehacker post about teens and juuling." The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Site: Query You can search for something within a specific website by using ‘site:’. Example: How I Work site:lifehacker.com" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Double Period Use a double period between two numbers to convey ranges. This is handy for pricing, dates and measurements. Example: HP Spectre buy $1000..$2000" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Tilde Use a tilde before a word to include all of its synonyms. Example: Star Wars ~Presents As you can see, it has scraped ‘gifts’ as well:" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Asterisk Speaking of exact words, what if you can’t remember them all? No problem—just use an asterisk in place of the unknown word/s. Again, this is great for song lyrics or quotes that you may have only half heard. Alternatively, ones that are often misquoted, like below. Example: “Play * Sam”" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Quotation Marks Use quotation marks to search an exact set of words, such as song lyrics. Example: “You must remember this” song" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results

"Dashes If you want to exclude a word from your search results, put a dash in front of it. Example: Watch West Wing online -Netflix" The Tiny, Essential Google Tricks for Way Better Search Results July 22, 2018 at 01:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2LHYG0Q

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The Patrologist

"So, this is my permission to you. If your goal is understanding a text as quickly as possible, then of course you should leverage a translation. It does exactly what you need, it renders a text beyond your proficiency comprehensible, efficiently. And that let’s you get on with the text itself, with getting meaning out of the text, and increasing the quantity of your overall language input." The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:09PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK

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The Patrologist

"And it’s slow. And painful. And inefficient. Which is why, whenever I’m reading something that already has a translation, if the text is beyond my current ability to read with 90-100% comprehension, I use that translation in parallel. Because reading a translation alongside does the exact same thing for acquisition and understanding that doing my own translation would do – it makes the input comprehensible" The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:08PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK

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The Patrologist

"There’s nothing wrong with this, it’s a useful strategy for rendering an incomprehensible input comprehensible. But it’s not reading, and it’s not comprehending in the L2." The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:08PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK

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The Patrologist

"That’s not a position I hold, because translation is not reading. Or, it’s not reading as a proficient communicative user of a language reads. If you want to read Greek as Greek, without translating (mentally or otherwise), then your goal (and mine) is quite different – it’s to acquire Greek to a degree fit for reading texts without needing to translate for understanding." The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:08PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK

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The Patrologist

"I can only imagine 4 solutions at the programmatic level: you teach based on CI-principles at the high school level, allowing you to get 4-600 hours in before your students even reach college. you raise the contact hours for language majors and make it an all-consuming degree (i.e., nothing but language, ‘content’ courses in the upper years taught in language, and no electives, and turn ‘expected’ hours into contact ones. or else you provide enough reading and audio material that all the ‘expected’ hours can be spent on input). you push expectations of higher level proficiencies into the grad-schools. you push for 1-2 week intensives to supplement term-teaching." The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK

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The Patrologist

"It also continues to highlight the problematic nature of 4 contact hours, across a standard semester. You just can’t get a student, ab initio, to very high levels of proficiency in a 4 year course. Which isn’t just a problem for biblical languages programs, it’s a problem for classics courses that want ab initio students reading high-level literature." The Patrologist June 24, 2018 at 03:07PM via Instapaper https://ift.tt/2tAfHCK