Dear plutarch: I could hide my light under a thimble. My modesty is not a pose but a painful necessity.I have a lot to be modest about. We do have a couple people who speak French, but they are not with us as often as I wish they were. Perhaps they may stop lurking if I let the mistranslation stand. I have been trying to find a way to make a post about salt, which is an extremely interesting but badly neglected topic. I have a URL about it, which is quite long, but has a lot of surprising facts.But no interesting words, alas.
http://www-geology.ucdavis.edu/~GEL115/salt.html