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[camwyn]

It's closing bell at the NY Stock Exchange. Patrick, from Spongebob Squarepants, just rang the closing bell.

This would be a bit more noteworthy if it weren't for the fact that Spongebob himself rang the opening one. The Nickelodeon company figured their current flagship product was the way to go with opening/closing.

Still... somehow a giant semi-anthropomorphic sponge is not quite the image I had in mind for the bloke who throws the switch that starts up the heart of the capital of capitalism.


... oh gods I'm turning into a Brit again. 'Scuse me. Gotta go read some Damon Runyon or something.

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[genarti]

One of my best friends has studied Japanese for several years; I can count to ten in Japanese, but not much more. I've studied French and Arabic, neither of which she speaks at all.

Naturally, when we lived together one summer, we fell into the habit of having multilingual conversations. It really is amazing what one can pick up from context and body language and vocal inflection, particularly if you know the other person well.

(The bad part of this is that now all it takes is one non-English word to throw us both into that pattern, and while we understand each other perfectly it confuses the heck out of everybody around us.)