From: kehoea@parhasard.net   
      
    Ar an t-aonú lá is triochad de mí Lúnasa, scríobh Ross Clark:   
      
    > Yes, I'm back.   
      
   Welcome back! It hasn’t been buzzing here with you away. I had idle plans to   
   fish out my World’s Writing Systems and summarise a chapter a week here, but,   
   you know, business to run, family to spend time with.   
      
    > Highlights of my travels":   
    >   
    > - World's largest indoor waterfall (The Jewel, Changi Airport, Singapore)   
    > - Chartres cathedral, with "Illuminations"   
    > - Boat on the Medway going through Tonbridge Lock on a rainy Saturday   
   morning   
    > - Jardins de Quatre-Vents, La Malbaie, Quebec   
      
   Looks all very agreeable, I do hope there were no logistical hiccups that put   
   you all in misery.   
      
    > But here's what happened in Crystal's _A Date With Language_:   
    >   
    > 12/7	New Conversations Day   
    > 13/7	Wole Soyinka born, 1934   
    > 14/7	Richard Taverner died, 1575   
    > 15/7	Launch of Twitter, 2006   
    > 16/7	Mark Evans born, 1919   
    > 17/7	World Emoji Day   
    > 18/7	John Hart became Chester Herald, 1567   
    > 19/7	Alan Lomax died, 2002   
    > 20/7	Deborah Schiffrin died, 2017   
    > 21/7	Jonathan Miller born, 1934   
    > 22/7	Sponsor's Day   
    > 23/7	Yada Yada Yada Day   
    > 24/7	Robert Graves born, 1895   
    > 25/7	Samuel Taylor Coleridge died, 1834   
    > 26/7	Esperanto Day   
    > 27/7	Hilaire Belloc born, 1870   
    > 28/7	Gerard Manley Hopkins born, 1844   
    > 29/7	Braj Kachru died, 2016   
    > 30/7	Jean Arasanayagam died, 2019   
    > 31/7	Denis Diderot died, 1784   
    >   
    > 1/8 	Yorkshire Day   
    > 2/8	William S.Burroughs died, 1997   
    > 3/8	P.D.James born, 1920   
    > 4/8	Percy Bysshe Shelley born, 1792   
    > 5/8	Toni Morrison died, 2019   
    > 6/8	National Gossip Day   
    > 7/8	Professional Speakers Day   
    > 8/8	Terry Nation born, 1930   
    > 9/8	International Day of the World's Indigenous Peoples   
    > 10/8	Julia Mood Peterkin died, 1962   
    > 11/8	Geoff Nunberg died, 2020   
    > 12/8	Paule Marshall died, 2019   
    > 13/8	Joyce Carol Thomas died, 2016   
    > 14/8	Thomas Sheridan died, 1788   
    > 15/8	E.Nesbit born, 1858   
    > 16/8	National Tell A Joke Day   
    > 17/8	Meaning of 'is' Day   
    > 18/8	Virginia Dare born, 1587   
    > 19/8	Ogden Nash born, 1902   
    > 20/8	Voyager 2 launched, 1977   
    > 21/8	Lady Mary Worley Montagu died, 1762   
    > 22/8	Dorothy Parker born, 1893   
    > 23/8	Tom McArthur born, 1938   
    > 24/8	Jorge Luis Borges born, 1899   
    > 25/8	Thomas Dekker died, 1632   
    > 26/8	Elizebeth Smith Friedman born, 1892   
    > 27/8	Neville Alexander died, 2012   
    > 28/8	Paul Grice died, 1988   
    > 29/8	Sybill Marshall died, 2005   
    > 30/8	John Kani born, 1943   
    > 31/8	We Love Memoirs Day   
    >   
    > Feel free to discuss any of these (or not), to ask (or answer) the   
   inevitable   
    > "who?" "what??" "why???" questions. I may do so myself.   
      
   Diderot’s mildly interesting and more relevant than the rest; what does he   
   say   
   on him?   
      
    > But tomorrow: September!   
      
   --   
   ‘As I sat looking up at the Guinness ad, I could never figure out /   
   How your man stayed up on the surfboard after fourteen pints of stout’   
   (C. Moore)   
      
   --- SoupGate-Win32 v1.05   
    * Origin: you cannot sedate... all the things you hate (1:229/2)