North Central College: http://jonathan.mueller.faculty.noctrl.edu/crow/examples.htm (aggression, attitudes/behavior, attraction/relationships, conflict/peacemaking, conformity, group influence, methods, persuasion, prejudice)
The following is a quote as it appears in Steven Pinker’s 1994 book The Language Instinct and in his 2002 book The Blank Slate:
“I should like to go one step further now and say, ‘Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors.”
Here is the original quote, as it appears in Watson’s 1924 book Behaviorism:
“I should like to go one step further now and say, ‘Give me a dozen healthy infants, well-formed, and my own specified world to bring them up in and I’ll guarantee to take any one at random and train him to become any type of specialist I might select—doctor, lawyer, artist, merchant-chief and, yes, even beggar-man and thief, regardless of his talents, penchants, tendencies, abilities, vocations, and race of his ancestors. I am going beyond my facts and I admit it, but so have the advocates of the contrary and they have been doing it for many thousands of years. Please note that when this experiment is made I am to be allowed to specify the way the children are to be brought up and the type of world they have to live in.”
Verbs
Compuestos
I wanted to be able to easily type a combination of English and Spanish and for my spelling to be checked for both simultaneously.
So, I installed two language files. I then combined my primary English dictionary with the Spanish (Spain) dictionary available from the Firefox add-on site. I combined the files by copying and pasting the contents of my English .aff and .dic files into the the Spanish .aff and .dic files.
This sort of works. I say sort of because when I use the Spanish dictionary, most English words are correctly identified as being spelled correctly. However, plural words and words ending in ed are identified as spelled incorrectly. Here is a screenshot of the phenomenon I’m describing.
In Windows 7, the dictionary files are installed here: C:\users\[User Name]\AppData\Roaming\Mozilla\Firefox\Profiles\xxxxxxxx.default\
2008–03-10: Hannah Poling
Case Study: Autism and Vaccines
2009–02-25: Bailey Banks
Vaccines and Autism: The Unending Story
ENGINE
Oil Quantity:
Without oil filter element replacement: 1.40 L (1.48 US qt) (1.23 Imp.qt)
With oil filter element replacement: 1.60 L (1.69 US qt) (1.41 Imp.qt)
Currently using Valvoline 20W50 Motorcycle oil
–Tools
—9 ½” ratchet
—-11/16 socket (1 ¼” long)
PARTS
Yamaha Parts Nation
For a bolt costing $1.50 that weighs about as much as two AA batteries, the shipping cost was $20 on Jan 8, 2010.
Yamaha Parts Depot
For a bolt costing $1 that weighs about as much as two AA batteries, the shipping cost was $11 on Jan 8, 2010.
“Beware the leader who bangs the drums of war in order to whip the citizenry into a patriotic fervor, for patriotism is indeed a double-edged sword. It both emboldens the blood, just as it narrows the mind.”
–Snopes entry
I found a reference to the quote in a work by Dr. Kevorkian called Medical Research and the Death Penalty: A Dialogue, first published in 1960 and revised in 1983.
Note also that the letters B and V have exactly the same pronunciation, and their names are pronounced exactly alike. Some colorful expressions are used to indicate which letter is being used, such as B de burro and V de vaca (roughly, “B as in burro” and “V as in vaca”). Sometimes B is referred to as be grande (“big B”) and the V as uve or ve chica (“little V”).
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