Long Term Memories

Thursday, May 20, 2004

Cicada outbreaks of the Past

We have a cicada outbreak this month. The cicada event I remember the best was in 1970. Irwin and I were driving somewhere, I think it was on the Beltway, and a swarm of cicadas came toward the car and crashed into the window. We both reflexively braced for the impact. Of course since cicadas have somewhat hollow bodies, there was no impact. The cicadas just bounced off the car window and that was that. ¶ 6:38 AM

Sunday, May 09, 2004

Less vs. Fewer

My father had a 'favorite' mistake in English. This was when people used the word 'less' when they meant 'fewer' (fewer is used for countables, e.g., fewer calories, otherwise less is used, e.g., less fattening). A week or so ago I corrected a very prominent attorney on this. I was reminded of this when I purchased something which advertised itself as having 'Less Carbs'. I think you can count carbs but I'm not entirely sure. ¶ 1:58 PM

Martin's memories preceding the chronicles, i.e., before 1986. The reason for this blog is to capture old memories that come back to me at seemingly random times. Thus the entries will not be in chronological order. Also, the accuracy of this blog is less than the accuracy in the more contemporaneous blog http://weisschronicles.blogspot.com/

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