News for the video geeks

There are rumors that Tru Calling is coming out on DVD. House MD is coming out on August 30.

I have DVDs on the brain because I'm about to start burning off my homemade tapes and old archived series tapes. There's a pretty scary number of things that I'm setting aside; by the time I'm done, there will be a literal crateful of tapes to be reformatted to DVD!

Linguistic squee

I'm on Lecture 6 of "The History of the English Language." Still loving it. For instance, I knew the difference between transitive and intransitive verbs, but I didn't know the difference between strong and weak verbs. Not describing the action, but the structure during tense changes. A weak verb doesn't change except for suffixes - I help, I will help, I was helped. A strong verb changes the vowel - I sang, I sing, the song was sung.

Hopefully the books I ordered will show up by the time I hit Lecture 10, Chaucer's English.

Also, I am amused to note that these are taking place in front of a live audience, because somebody coughed in the background.