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See ID

This morning, I was buying loratidine tablets at a chemist's where I don't usually go; I asked whether I could pay by EC card and they say yes, if I produced photo ID.

I had heard of this practice from customers_suck (often in the context of customers writing "see ID" in the signature line of their credit card and being indignant when asked to produce said ID), but hadn't encountered it in Germany yet.

Still, why not? I showed her my passport; she compared the names, then the signatures, between the EC card and the passport. I don't think she looked at the passport photo though or compared the signature on the receipt with the one on the card.

False friends between Lojban and TLI Loglan

(Cross-posted to my journal and lojban)

On the Lojban mailing list, Pierre Abbat challenged people to find a sentence which means one thing in Lojban and another in Loglan; he had helpfully posted a list of false friends and other word pairs to the Lojban tiki.

John Cowan came up with this:

"le barda mi dakli" means "the big one is a bag with me in it" in Lojban, but in Loglan it means "the one who rewards is more likely than me".

Likewise, "gutra le maksi" means "A womb of the magnet!" in Lojban, "Be strange to the maximum value!" in Loglan.

Key to Islamic Terms

Mostly for my own reference, but may come in handy to others as well:

Key to Islamic Terms—some Arabic phrases translated and explained (e.g. bismillahi rahmani rahim, la ilaha ill-Allah, etc.).

Is it appropriate to take employers to a cabaret show with bare-breasted women for a work treat?

A question from tickybox; enslore would like to know your opinion on this. (I'm passing this on as a public service.)

Specifically, this was on a trip to Paris, in the Lido.

NB that article will be made friends-only in a couple of days.

Words of one syllable

When the newborn takes its first breath, pulmonary vascular resistance falls due to physical opening of the pulmonary capillaries and atenuation of intrauterine hypoxic pulmonary vasoconstriction.

—from the Wikipedia article on the ductus arteriosus

My first reaction was something along the lines of "I was with you until the first comma."

It doesn't take long to get addicted

We've only got TV for, what, a week now? And already it seems that Stella spends most of the day in front of the screen, or at least with it running in the background.

Makes you wonder how she managed before. Certainly didn't take long for her to get used to it.