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Weekly Contest #334
Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there existed a city whose citizens took great pride in having produced a virtually unreadable and unpronounceable language. Although the language possessed an alphabet, it obeyed no conventional rules. The pronunciation of each noun had be learned separately, and every verb took a minimum of 24 forms. Even the inhabitants of the city found their language truly alarming – according to both reliable and unreliable sources, only three foreigners had ever been able to master it, and these three were pu...
Weekly Contest #307
What was I going to do? I’d got myself into a very tricky situation, and I had a lot at risk. Courtesy of a very generous grant from the Mellon Foundation, I was officially engaged in a three-year ethnographic study where I was going to explore how poor people cope in the city’s public housing high-rises, otherwise known as the ‘projects’. This was going to be my ticket to the world of academia. Looking back, all I can say is: what arrogance. What a sap I was. Give a guy like me a wooden nickel and he’s gonna to try to pass it off as the rea...
Weekly Contest #196
Jean wakes up early, just before his alarm goes off. He looks outside and sees that it’s another typical London summer day, grey and cool. He feels clear-headed, glad that he limited himself to two beers at the pub last night. At a little past eight he gets a phone call from his new boss, asking him to meet him at 10am at an address in Kilburn to repair a faulty fire alarm and do a general maintenance check on the alarm system. Not exactly exciting but the kind of work an electrician is often asked to do, really a piece of cake. He’s glad to...
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