A COMMENTER, Thomas Hopewell, asks "At what point along the trajectory from touristic phrasebook to Safiresque linguistic mastery do you feel comfortable claiming to 'speak' a given language?"

In the last 30 seasons only two teams won a championship with their point guards as their leading scorers - the Lakers with Magic Johnson and the Pistons with Isaiah Thomas.

Thomas suspects that the horizon provides a helpful point of reference, allowing people to sense the difference between their body's natural motion and the motion of the ship.