Random thought on adoption

The thought just crossed my mind -- I wonder whether a vague analogy to how it "should" be is to consider children born with a Caesarian section and those who are born "naturally".

It's a fact that some are born one way and some the other, and most mothers would probably be able to tell you how a given child was born if you asked them, but they nearly never bring it up in conversation unprompted (e.g. introducing someone as "and this is my delivered-by-C-section son") nor treat the children differently -- nor do most other people. (Though I wouldn't be surprised to learn that some people might look down on children who weren't born "properly", or consider the mother or the child to be a second-class person due to the circumstances of their birth.)

And that it could be similar with adoption: whether a child is adopted or not is a verifiable fact, but for most intents and purposes should have no bearing on anything. (I still don't know what people-in-general here think, though -- whether they are open-minded and do think this way or could be brought to easily, or whether my paranoia is at least partly justified.)

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Perhaps I'm just projecting my own insecurities, biasses, and preconceptions onto others.

The The Impotence of Proofreading

Funny routine about "the the impotence of proofreading".

Using lots of wrong-but-close words. Part of the amusing is that you can still understand what he's saying, even through all the wrong words! (At least, most of the time; there were a couple of places I didn't catch.)

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Sanskrit mottos vs. Latin mottos

I was intrigued to read a while ago on Wikipedia that a number of companies, schools, etc. in India have mottos in Sanskrit.

The parallel struck me with companies, schools, etc. in Anglophonia that have mottos in Latin (or, occasionally, in Greek), since I imagine the languages hold similar statuses: a prestige language, even if now (mostly) dead in its standard form [as opposed to descendants], giving a certain cachet to whatever is said in it; the language traditionally associated with education and learning.

Random memory

In France, visiting my penfriend. In a swimming pool, got something in my eyes, and exclaimed, "Ah! Mes œils!"

Cue laughter from my pen-friend and a reminder that the plural of œil is yeux. Oops, I knew that :)

(I also got curious looks when I referred to somebody's grandchildren as their grands-enfants around his family... I suppose it makes sense that your children's children, being even younger than your children, would be petits-enfants rather than grands-enfants, but I was taking my cue from English here.)