New Year's Resolutions
I am making a slight deviation from my usual habit of providing New Year's resolutions for all of my faithful readers. What follows are goals I would like to accomplish, but I invite my readers to take these as their own also. 1) Learn the skill of simultaneous output. There are people skilled in simultaneous translation and people skilled (?) in the special breathing techniques required to play the didgeridoo; I want to learn how to simultaneously recite One Fish, Two Fish, Red Fish Blue Fish at the same time as answering emails or proofreading documents. I would even settle for the intermediate skill of reciting Dr. Seuss while participating in a conference call or strategizing for my day. 2) Convince computer programmers that even though they are quite used to working with code, most people are not. Plus, real languages are so much more beautiful and helpful. What could follow here is a lengthy rant about all of the programs, etc., that have done away with perfectly cl