maruku 0.2.3 → 0.2.4

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- Subject: A report about Oxford and the 2006 SLAM Summer School
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- I stayed three weeks in Oxford: one week for the SLAM school and,
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- before that, two weeks for an English course. You might ask: why?
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- A very good question indeed - "Why I am not on a sunny beach?" -
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- I kept asking myself as I walked down the misty alleys of the old town,
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- wearing a scarf on August, 16th, and realizing that - maybe - I would not
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- Summary:
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- 1. The Queen's English
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- 2. The Harry Potter experience
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- 3. Parsnip, Marmite and the tea conspiracy
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- 4. The Summer School
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- 5. Minor open issues in SLAM
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- `I`. The Queen's English
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- It turns out that a course of English at an advanced level is mostly
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- about vocabulary and idioms: by the end of the first week I knew seven
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- different ways to address a "promiscuous" woman, and I can tell which ones
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- It was a lot of fun to learn the differences (or, as the teacher put it,
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- "to purify my English after years of prolonged unhealthy exposure to American
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- media"), which are not only linguistic, but above all in attitude and
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- For example, in the US the first question that people ask you is
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- flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi/232006603/
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- During my three-week stay I tried my best to immerse myself in the English
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- I went to a place called Oxford Story [3], where we paid &pound;7 to go through a
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- At Epcot, I learned that the final goal of all the scientific progress in the
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- In Oxford, I learned that the glorious University is the repository of all
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- human knowledge, and that the English understatement is a legend. At the end of
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- flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi/232023681/
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- Still, one thing the ride did not explain is how the well-educated,
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- flickr: http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi/232529032/
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- I went to a candle-light baroque concert in the Exeter college chapel.
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- The ensemble was 75% Asian, all Oxford researchers, and we were given
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- I read "The Hobbit" (Tolkien was a fellow of Exeter college) - I discovered
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- Young people have their ID checked at the entrance of pubs and in liquor
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- Anyway the guys at the door use the ID checking mostly as a form of flattery:
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- The other characteristic thing is that in English pubs there is no table
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- Don't look in your dictionary for a translation of "parsnip" as probably
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- In Italy we don't get the real thing. Why is that? Is this some sort of
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- on the Euclidean group, you have very different answers to the important
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- shut my eyes. Interestingly, at summer schools and conferences, if you close
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- \[1\] [http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php](http://www.spellingsociety.org/news/media/poems.php)
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- \[2\] dde [http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi/236722418/](http://www.flickr.com/photos/censi/236722418/)
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- \[3\] [http://www.oxfordstory.co.uk](http://www.oxfordstory.co.uk)
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- \[4\] [http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/parsni12.html](http://www.botanical.com/botanical/mgmh/p/parsni12.html )
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- \[5\] E. Meijer, M. Fokkinga, R. Paterson. "Functional Programming with Bananas, Lenses, Envelopes and Barbed Wire" (1991)
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- \[8\] [http://asl.epfl.ch/~scaramuz/cabaret/cabaret.wmv](http://asl.epfl.ch/~scaramuz/cabaret/cabaret.wmv)
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