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    Ann Bogle
    May 07, 11:17pm

    Top stories today, this week: the girls missing in Nairobi. The NYTimes lists an editorial related to it today, petitions are going around. I bit on another one online at LUNA LUNA mag. You can read my comment near the end of the page devoted to that topic. I cannot find coverage in The NY Times about Chase Bank's closing porn stars' checking accounts as reported in LUNA LUNA and other locations online. The sentencing but not the verdict handed yet in the St. Patrick's Day (2012) Occupy violence case against a woman protester/protestor, as editorialized in The Guardian ... that links to other editorials.

    In other business

    -- from an email to my mother this morning:

    P.S. Are you aware of this bit of punctuation: ~

    I found ~ in my college German dictionary, Langenscheidt, prepared in 1973 and 1978 by Heinz Messinger and Werner Ru(e)denberg. It -- ~ -- is called a "swung dash" or Tilde, yet Tilde is a different symbol in German similar in appearance to a B. ~ is the symbol used in place of repeating the main entry word. I passed a long hour staring at those few pages in the prefaces trying to understand swung dash and Tilde -- Tilde I cannot indicate in email due to a lack of available symbols in the email program.* I might check my Word program for Tilde. There are bold and not-bold versions of swung dash and Tilde to serve different purposes.

    The example given in a note about gender in German nouns is "Scotland Yard" -- Hauptdienstgebaude der Londoner Kriminalpolizei.

    So, in German "Scotland Yard" is plural. * A-umlaut in ~baude

    Here is my question to you:

    What is the meaning of the abbreviation in German -- bzw? The context in English, "The gender of the German nouns is given by m, f, n or pl" and in German, "Die Angabe des Genus eines Substantivs erfolgt durch m, f, n bzw. pl" where or (not italicized) translates as bzw also not italicized.

    Now, do I have a mild headache? Not too bad.

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    Ann Bogle
    May 08, 12:51am

    Associated Press report in The NYTimes on May 2, 2014 about the first huge abduction of girls in Nigeria on April 14, 2014. No earlier more timely report is linked:

    http://www.nytimes.com/2014/05/03/world/africa/nigeria-police-revise-number-of-kidnapped-students.html

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    Robert Vaughan
    May 08, 02:06am

    Ann, Hello! I wrote a poem about this that I posted last night. Please read it! Thanks for writing about it here and linking to the articles.

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