Month: January 2016

View from a hotel window in Philadelphia

At Hilton Philadelphia at Penn’s Landing in Philadelphia, PA

https://www.swarmapp.com/r_aliev/checkin/5699d132498e99ff2631089f?s=u5W-J3xnZrqrwNmcbuwHcKhAupc&ref=fb&source=openGraph

Passing through the settlement fallston joppa

Driving through Baltimore in the rain. Counted five vagrants/homeless people – sleeping on benches, rummaging through bins. In McLean/Vienna and surrounding areas, I haven’t seen a single one in two weeks. A good neighborhood really does make a difference.

Hooray!!!

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DP89Uefobcs

from the US Traffic Rules (studying): “…Researchers estimate that between the hours of 10 PM and 2 AM, three out of every ten drivers are drunk…”, “…You must yield to funeral processions…”

“…In your lifetime, there’s a 50-50 chance that you’ll be involved in an alcohol-related crash…” (oh)

Some English words are oddly formed. For example, it’s clear how to build nouns from nouns by adding -ship, much like with -hood:

friend – friendship

member – membership

censor – censorship

there are quite a few of these (http://www.morewords.com/ends-with/ship/)

But then dealership – dealer loses out (because dealer is already taken).

Or take the verb to pass on the road, it seems like it means “to let pass,” but it actually means “to overtake.”

(I study traffic rules in the evenings. Looks like I have an exam on Saturday)

UPDATE: on Tuesday. I have a conference in Philadelphia on Saturday. And they have holidays on Friday and Monday!

Please provide the content you would like translated.

The application for a local driver’s license begins with the checkbox “Yes, I would like to remain or become an organ, eye and tissue donor”

Chewie, we’re home!