A few days ago I shared my compilation of posts from Conversation Agent on Google+ with the following line: Admittedly, my preference is for looking forward - also why I tend to spend little time resting on my laurels. Someone asked what laurels are. Figures of speech are one of the ways you can tell whether you mastered a new language - do you get the nuances within it? My doctoral thesis consisted of a translation of short stories by Richard Brautigan called The Revenge of the Lawn. Short stories leave little space for guessing from context, I learned. Especially... Read more →