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i warned you about this, missionary boy

you lovely people who have been reading this blog for a while might remember a blog post i wrote about endangered languages. one of the examples that i gave was the sentinel or sentinelese language, spoken by a mysterious tribe on a remote island in the indian ocean who had a tendency to violently attack anyone who strayed too close to their home. the people of north sentinel island have been living in much the same way as they do today [as far as we can tell] for sixty thousand years. think of any great civilization you've heard of; this population was there tens of thousands of years before that. a lot of places on earth were still empty of humans when these people first arrived in the place they call home today.

north sentinel island has been in the news this week because an american missionary got exactly the sort of greeting that visitors to the island have generally been given. i don't want to speak ill of the dead, except that, yes, that is exactly what i want to do in…

a probably incomplete list of truly awesome place names in newfoundland


please stop telling me i'm pregnant



"is there any chance that you're pregnant?"



say what?
