some light questions

[cellio]

I learned today that there is a full-service gas station on my way to/from work. I didn't know we had any of those locally. It's been years (probably decades); what is the conventional tip?

As I pulled up to an intersction (all-way stop), someone from the cross street was backing through the intersection. After backing into the space in front of my car, he immediately popped into drive and went through the intersection. Whose turn was that, the cross-street or mine? :-)

I have occasionally noticed (because of tracking/RSS feeds or because I viewed the journals directly) posts to LJ that did not show up on my friends page. Is this happening to anyone else? I haven't detected a pattern yet.

Why does Hebrew have two words for "open" that differ only (apparently) in what objects they take? It's peh-kuf-chet when talking about eyes and ears, and peh-taf-chet for anything else.

Comments

[dr4b]

Dude. You should see how Japanese has two main words for "open" and I totally can't figure out how to use a bunch of them (but one seems to have to do with pulling something open like a drawer, and one seems to have to do with opening by uncovering or revealing).

[dvarin.livejournal.com]

Ugh, yeah, I still can't figure out the difference between aku and hiraku. And there's a whole passle of uncovering and revealing verbs...