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Thanks for your comments, Fred, and especially for the follow-up on Andrew Coyne. He has indeed suspended his blog’s comments function. Evidently he found his readers’ behaviour as tiresome as I did.

I can’t resist commenting, however, on something else Coyne has just published:

“A Liberal less than a week, la Stronach already has the ly - er, lingo down pat. Ms Stronach pronounces herself hurt by the reaction to her last-minute conversion to the Liberal cabinet/cause, and touches all the right bases: new low, return to civility, why the focus on her private life, etc. As her old friend and mentor Brian told her, ya dance with the one that bought ya.”

The Brian in question is the former Tory prime minister, Brian Mulroney, who achieved for his party both its greatest majority and its near-total destruction. And what I hope he told Belinda Stronach was: “Ya dance with the one that bRought ya.” Quite a Freudian slip!

Canadian politic is becoming a national sport. All the things that happened 25 years ago come back in unexpected places like the commission gommery…

The most beautiful paradox in the Canadian history is that the vote for the separation of the Quebec the 20 may 1980 give the repatriation of the Canadian constitution some years later. Is that not so beautiful?

Now, the program that helped the vote of the “Non”, is separating the Canada one more time.

Canadian politic is a pearl of our beautiful country

The Lessons of Multiple Blogging

Blessed as I am with the attention span of a gerbil, I tend to pursue new interests all too often.

Blogging has turned out to be the ideal answer to this trait—or the ultimate means of self-destruction, depending on your point of view. Since launching this blog in the summer of 2003, I’ve created at least a couple of dozen others. Some have been short-lived; others have persisted and flourished. All have taught me something about the nature of this medium.

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Sometimes, things are incomprehensible… However, I think that the fact that Mr. Coyne is a columnist in some of the most popular journals in Canada have something to do with his traffic. However, I think he agree with you: http://andrewcoyne.com/2005/05/i-alienate-my-readers-again.php

Blogs would be a great educational tool. The problems is that it take time and patience, things that most students spend elsewhere, or simply do not have.

You said it: it’s a perfect tool for self-education. I’m like you, I first started to blog to learn something. I started my blog 8 months ago to practice my English writing. At first, it was not as enjoyable as I thought but I finally found a great pleasure to build it, write it and converse with my readers. I had a goal: I used Blogs to reach it. 8 months later, I found that my English has really increased despite the fact that all my social interactions here are in French.

By the way, I just subscribed to the feed of your English usage blog, it’s a great idea you had