Food, Friends, and a Flash presentation
Among other things, our friends at our new congregation here in Columbus are keeping us well fed. Yesterday was another two-meals-for-the-price-of-none day for the Cook family, which is awesome when you're still waiting for THE Ohio State University to pay your wife.*
In the conversation before dinner, the subject turned, as it often does when we meet new people, to our time in China. We ended up talking about how some Chinese characters seem to have their origins in Bible stories. For those of you who aren't familiar with this, it is actually quite interesting and easy to understand even if you don't speak Chinese. This Flash presentation from World Bible School explains. (It takes a few minutes to get through, but it's worth it.)
Speaking of China, congratulations to our friends Kyle and Jingjing Meyers, who were married in Wuhan a little more than a week ago. We finally got to see pictures of the ceremonies (Western and Chinese) on his Web site, but that only made us wish even more that we had been able to be there.
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*Tangent: They are very proud of their THE. I think you're kicked out of the state if you leave it off. For reasons that pass understanding, they're also very proud of their "Script Ohio." Who knew dotting an "i" could be such a life-changing moment?
posted by Ryan @ 10:41 AM
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You might remember, Ryno, that April is from Lima, Ohio. They did a script Lima and it was a big deal there to dot the i.
You Midwesterners are funny people.
April's from Lima? I had forgotten th exact city, actually.
Our new city editor is also from Lima, funny pronunciation and all.
Another style pet peeve: capitalizing "the" in front of institutions.
Is there really a need to write The University of Tennessee? Is someone seriously going to mistake it for Vanderbilit or East Tennessee State University if we don't capitalize "the"?
And what about The New York Times? Are there so many newspapers in NY called Times that the world famous one has to capitalize "the"?
To me, it's just plain arrogance. And I won't stand for it. Despite what AP style says.
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