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The fate of Haiku Tuesday

By kevin | Published: November 5, 2009
Hi there – bit late this week. I’m thinking of making some changes to Haiku Tuesday. I think the frequency is too high, and it’s taking some airtime from other, more worthy content I could be writing. This is only emphasized by the fact that nobody gave the foreign-language haikus a shot – so I don’t [...]
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Martes de Haiku / Haiku Tuesday ¡en Español!

By kevin | Published: September 15, 2009
Me gustó escribir un haiku en otra idioma hace un mes que ¡lo voy a hacer otra vez! (La rima -pronunciación sudoamericana- no fue intencional.) La tema de hoy es la economía, aunque no sé mucho de ella. Leí algo ayer en mobile.lemonde.fr de mi móvil. De todos modos… No tengo mucho dinero. Culpa a la economía! —- In English: I [...]
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Haiku Tuesday – Contact Form Works Again

By kevin | Published: September 1, 2009
Like kypros.org, One more broken site feature is now functional! — If you can’t gather the message from the haiku, the contact form is now working. So now there’s no excuse to not send me fan mail! Come on, there must be somebody out there who reads these on occasion. Let me know you’re there! (Note: kypros.org is a great [...]
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It’s never too late for Haiku Tuesday! Mistakes

By kevin | Published: August 13, 2009
Since I have writer’s block: If you fix your mistakes, Yay! You are fluent. — Just couldn’t think of anything witty to write today, but the main point of today’s haiku is that like most skills, there’s no one way to get good, and often you only have limited control over your exposure to situations that will enable you [...]
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Haiku Tuesday – Triple Feature!

By kevin | Published: June 30, 2009
Hi again to all Blang readers! After a few weeks that turned into two months, we’re finally back! We’re commemmorating our return by actually  having introductory text for Haiku Tuesday and by having no, not one, not two, not even four haikus today, but three! (OK, that’s lamer than four, but you know how it [...]
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Hike Today? High Cool To Stay? No, Hai-ku Tues-day!

By kevin | Published: April 28, 2009
She’s repeated it Six times, but it makes no sense Seventh time’s the charm? How do you fare in listening comprehension? Tell us here!
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Haiku Tuesday Returns with Failku

By kevin | Published: April 21, 2009
I went to Greece and worked too much. Thus I write this haiku apology. ——- Bonus haiku He who learns language without interest fails, a lot like this haiku. ——- Can you spot the failku?
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Haiku Tuesday – Upcoming

By kevin | Published: March 24, 2009
What if fjords could talk? In Norwegian they’d complain. “Altfor mye regn!” I’m going to be producing a language course! What do you think?
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Haiku Tuesday – Word Choice

By kevin | Published: March 17, 2009
I wish it did not Take an entire haiku To find the right words. Special Double Feature: Singing and Word Choice!
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Haiku Tuesday – Singing

By kevin | Published: March 10, 2009
Singing is too much fun. I must stop it from taking over my entire blog. By popular request, this week’s experiment will be on singing…read about it!
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