World Cup

Well, Australia's out, but only on goal difference. Last night's game between the Socceroos and Serbia was exciting. Both teams had to win so they attacked and played creatively. I'm sorry Serbia's out as well.

South Africa beat France to save our pride. France was a disgrace.

A colleague and her family are going to the Netherlands vs Cameroon game today. Cameroon are out, but hopefully they will play well for the sake of pride, though I want the Netherlands to win.

Sharpe books, Grammar gripe

I've finished reading the nine new Sharpe books by Bernard Cornwell that I bought recently. I read them far too fast. Maybe I'll start re-reading them. It's good to like both the books and the TV series.

I noticed a prevalent speech trend cropping up in Cornwell's writing. This is the tendency to use negative positives instead of positive negatives, e.g., not happy instead of unhappy, don't like instead of dislike, etc. I'm trying to use the negatives both in my speech and my writing, but it's difficult with everyone around using the positives. At this rate antonyms are going to disappear from the English language.