One of my few successes during my service here was formatting the Peace Corps South Africa grammar manual for Setswana, written mostly by Art Chambers, an SA16 volunteer. For anyone wanting to learn Setswana, I reckon it's a pretty good primer, so I present it for free here. If you think it sucks and you want to make changes, or you'd like to take a look at the raw TeX file, you can find it here.
Billionaire Mike Bloomberg is attempting to buy the Democratic nomination. With something like $400 million in personal spending so far, that much is clear — and it appears to be working at least somewhat well, as he is nearing second place in national polls. I would guess that he will quickly into diminishing returns, but on the other hand spending on this level is totally unprecedented. At this burn rate he could easily spend more than the entire 2016 presidential election cost both parties before the primary is over. I published a piece today outlining why I would not vote for Bloomberg against Trump (I would vote for Sanders, Warren, Buttigieg, Klobuchar, or Biden), even though I live in a swing state. This got a lot of "vote blue no matter who" people riled up . They scolded me and demanded that I pre-commit to voting for Bloomberg should he win the nomination. The argument as I understand it is to try to make it as likely as possible that whatever Democrat wins t...
I've not gotten to do any geeky librarian stuff in a couple months, so I've printed this and will check it for table of contents, indexing, spelling, consistency, etc. for you.
ReplyDeleteSomeone actually read my manual? Motho mongwe o badile buka ya thutapuo ya me ka ruri?
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ReplyDeleteThank you for making this available !
ReplyDeleteThanks so much for sharing the Setswana Grammar Manual! I am extremely excited to work through it!
ReplyDeleteMuch appreciated!
Its been such great help, thanks you so much.
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