Posts by Chris Waugh
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I've seen bees buzzing in Beijing's highest, driest, coldest county, and back down in the city for some final packing and cleaning, I saw this fellow scuttling along. Spring seems to be springing early this year.
hmmm.... does that mean the southern autumn is going to come early, because that's where we'll be in a couple of weeks...
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Waiting for warmer weather.
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Starting to look festive.
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Such a tiny article. Music with a conscience - but I'm sure there's a lot more to be told.
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Looking northwest from the Hall for Prayer for Good Harvest.
The Hall for Prayer for Good Harvest from the east side.
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Circular altar.
Looking north to the echo wall.
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Speaker: Why all the fuss over six trees?, in reply to Jolisa,
( OMG is this even really a word )"dis-benefits".
That's terrible! If they'd had to invent a word, surely they could've gone for something like, I dunno, 'malefit'?
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Lost an eye.
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Biting off more than she can chew.
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Hard News: We can make things better here, in reply to ,
I did however, revisit the Dyslexia NZ web sight just to check.
Interesting website. This bit:
Constitutional in origin refers to the fact that dyslexia has a substantive neurobiological basis. Brain research, including studies from Yale and Auckland universities, has shown that while it is common to use the ‘verbal’ left side of our brain to understand words, dyslexic people use the ‘pictorial’ right side – making them slower to process and understand language, but stronger in creative areas like problem solving, empathy and lateral thinking.
...reminds me of a couple of things I read about dyslexia and the Chinese language several years ago. Memory is hazy, but the basic point was that dyslexia exists in both English and Chinese but it functions very differently in the two different languages, thanks to the two very different writing systems, so that somebody who is dyslexic in English may well not be dyslexic in Chinese (assuming, of course, they learn to read and write Chinese) and vice versa.
