tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post5847187344332977539..comments2023-10-19T05:40:59.162-04:00Comments on Sippican Cottage: On The Internet, It's Still The DepressionSippicanCottagehttp://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-48165221431736763512008-08-07T11:02:00.000-04:002008-08-07T11:02:00.000-04:00Hi Andy- Thanks for reading and commenting. I am a...Hi Andy- Thanks for reading and commenting. <BR/><BR/>I am an autodidact at almost everything. It makes you seem strange, sometimes wonderful to formally educated people. One by-product is you know exactly how to spell uncommon words, but often can't pronounce them because you learned everything by reading obscure things. <BR/><BR/>My mother likes to tease me about me when I was a little tyke, and said horizon: hor-is-on instead of hor-eyes-zun, because I learned the word horizontal first and had only read the word horizon.SippicanCottagehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/14940797380578921776noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-14474631.post-52950118085358128842008-08-04T16:21:00.000-04:002008-08-04T16:21:00.000-04:00Was there any kind of feeling of being ambushed wh...Was there any kind of feeling of being ambushed when you realized you were going to have to spell - instead of just say - tschotchke for the first time? Or had you done it before? And where did you find that spelling? My heretofore omniscient MS Word spell checker offers no suggestions, though the little red underline screams that an etymological injustice has been done.Anonymoushttps://www.blogger.com/profile/01673842520123958712noreply@blogger.com