That's what Darrell Waltrip says at the start of the Nascar Races when the pace car heads for the pits and the cars really start to race., I shouldn't say that just yert, not until March 19th when I catch the plane for Lisbon, actually, Seattle, Atlanta, New York, then Lisbon. Presently, I'm busy learning Portuguese, actually trying to twist my Italian and Spanish into Portuguese. All three languages have a lot in common, but every once in a while I come across a word that is entirely different in all three, like butterfly--Italian is farfalla, Spanish, mariposa, and Portuguese, borboleta. I'm not sure, but I think the words that are entirely different help ground me in the apporpriate language. When a word is identical in all three, I feel as if my brain-train, having moved
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