Word Memes For Vocabulary Fans Who Can’t Stop Looking Up Definitions

I love words. I know it might be hard to believe, but nearly every class I took in college had something to do with reading, writing, or language. I was an English major with minors in Professional Writing and Linguistics, so I was quite literally obsessed with the English language. I am addicted to learning …
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Redditors Share Seemingly Normal Names That Are the Most Unfortunate in Other Languages

Names can be tricky things. They are one of the first metrics that other people use to judge us, and it’s not like we needed any more reasons for that to happen. As if there wasn’t enough responsibility placed on parents, choosing what to name a kid can really make or break how they experience …
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Linguists Share Cool Facts About Languages That They Speak

Being able to read, write, and speak remains one of the greatest achievements human beings have ever had. We’d be nowhere without our communication skills, and indeed our failure to use them properly causes many of the world’s problems.  What’s even crazier is how many languages we have developed over thousands of years, and all …
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French Woman Claims English is a «Simple» Language, Gets Schooled By Linguists

A fun fact about me is that I got a Linguistics minor in college. Educated diva, I know. Getting a linguistics minor isn’t the most challenging thing in the world: all you need is five courses, but I learned so much about language. The most important thing I learned in Linguistics class is that no …
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Russian Interviewee Gets Told Their Russian is «Insufficient» by Job Interviewer Who Couldn’t Speak the Language

As someone who took at least five linguistics classes in college, you might call me a language expert. And as such, it’s my duty to share a few undeniable truths about language learning that many people do not know. Did you know that if you’re a native speaker of a language, congratulations, you are an …
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Dumb Duolingo Memes For Both Linguists And Language Luddites

There are hundreds of different languages in the world, but only 20% of the U.S. population can fluently speak more than one. While not everyone necessarily needs to know any languages other than the one that they grew up speaking, it is enriching to gain the knowledge of another culture through how they speak. Plus, …
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Weird And Cursed Duolingo Sentences That Definitely Aren’t Vacation Friendly

Every day, countless well meaning individuals download the Duolingo app in a hopeful attempt to engage in self-betterment, and maybe annoy their friends with some newfound foreign vocabulary. Every day, these same people realize that the Duolingo owl is their new nemesis, destined to haunt their phones until they switch off their notifications (or give …
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