A Dictionary Full of 31 Wordplay Memes For The Literate

If there’s one thing I love in this world, it’s words. The past ten years of my life have consisted of constantly consuming as many words as possible for my own mental enrichment. When I was in high school, I was obsessed with learning vocabulary words. We had to do 15 minutes of vocabulary practice …
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30+ Bookworm Memes For Readers Who Can’t Put Their Books Down

Once you leave school, it’s hard to remember what it was like to read for fun. You spend years and years being taught how to close read and analyze literature that you forget what it’s like to do it because you like it. It’s no help that so many of the most fun books published …
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Teachers Discuss How They Deal With Rowdy Middle School Boys

I don’t think it’s a controversial statement that middle school boys are the worst. I luckily only had to deal with them for a couple of years (shoutout to absolute menaces to society, Alex and Luke). Still, some unfortunate adults have made entire careers out of trying to control this demographic. Bless their hearts.  There …
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15 Reading Memes For Readers Who Can’t Get Off Booktok and Need to Finish Their Book

Recently, I haven’t been able to stop thinking about the fact that the YA romance novel Red White, And Royal Blue (which was recently adapted into a movie for Amazon Prime) was based on a real-person fanfiction about Jesse Eisenberg and Andrew Garfield. It’s a thought that never leaves my mind, much like the fact …
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‘It’s the biggest scandal since Deborah’s chicken got ran over by a police car’: Small townsfolk in the UK share their village’s pettiest, most legendary gossip

Most Americans’ firsts thought when imagining the UK, mostly England, are rolling green countrysides, polite and refined inhabitants, and the occasional polo match. In reality, the UK is actually a sheep-ridden wasteland of old man pubs, soccer hooligans (erm, «football»), and the pettiest small town drama imaginable. For every small village, there lurks a town …
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Language Memes For People Yelling At Their Duolingo App

Learning languages is hard, especially if you’re not getting the whole immersion experience. I feel your pain for those of us who have spent hours in a classroom trying desperately to understand what the teacher is saying in French or Spanish. Some lucky people have caught the language-learning bug, whether it be through traveling, Duolingo, …
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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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International Internet Users Share the Most Obvious Signs a Person is American

Back in the mid-aughts, I was part of an exchange program that took a few lucky Americans on a trip to Japan for a few incredible weeks. It was a little nerve-wracking to think about traveling in a country where I couldn’t read or speak the language, but to my surprise, it was incredibly easy …
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