It’s easy to write something and never go back to edit it. After all, there are only so many hours in a day to get things done, and in many jobs, if you throw something onto the page, often nobody will clock your errors. No matter your job, it’s usually a good idea to know …
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Book Memes For Lifelong Readers
I’m sure we’ve all heard this line repeatedly from non-readers: «I just don’t have time to read.» A fundamental misunderstanding about readers is that we have all the time in the world to pour over 5 Russian novels a week. As much as I wish that were true, most readers have to make time to …
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Literature Memes For Former Percy Jackson Kids
«What are you reading right now?» is one of the scariest questions an intellectual hot person can ask you. It’s a question more loaded than a baked potato because there are explicitly correct and incorrect answers. Under no circumstances can you tell them, «I’m not reading anything right now.» If you say that, you’ve already …
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People Debate Which Color Folder Correlates To Which Subjects in School
When you’re in high school, you have very little freedom. One of the few choices you can make for yourself is which trapper keeper you get from Staples. This is a critical decision, as that multiuse binder won’t break for at least three years, so you better make the right choice. The question of «which …
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Bloody Brilliant British Images
British people get a lot of slack from Americans online. They get roasted for their teeth, food, and accents in ways that nearly always come off as hacky. Like we get it, Brits put peas and beans on foods that are largely incomprehensible to the Yankee mind and stomach, but can we let it rest? …
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British Girl Beats the Big Heatwave by Pretending to Be the “Freezer Inspector” for the Frozen Food Aisle at a Grocery Store
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15 Shirts With Hilarious Translation Errors
You’ve all heard the stories of English speakers getting tattoos of phrases in languages they don’t speak. They try to get something inspirational or beautiful tattooed on an extremely visible body part only to discover later that what their tattoo really said was either something random or humiliating. Either way, it was not what they …
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Weird Duolingo Sentences To Stimulate Your Broca’s Area
Language acquisition is not known to be quickly accomplishable or straightforward. Most of us spend four years in a high school classroom fruitlessly trying to learn French, Spanish, or German, to completely forget everything we’ve learned in the weeks after graduating. I even took three semesters of Russian language courses in college, which may or …
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Rude Boss Forbids Employees From Speaking Non-English Languages
Linguistic diversity is something that is not always praised in the workplace. Being bilingual is often seen as a boon for white-collar workers who know languages with reputations of being cosmopolitan or good to know for business. On the flip side, bilingual service workers tend to be perceived as being less intelligent when speaking in …
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Proofreader Offers Useful Pneumonic Devices for Demystifying Words That Are Confusingly Similar
Bear with me, but does one bear it all or bare it all? And speaking of bears, if a bear pays me a compliment, can I complement his compliment with a compliment? Or would that negatively affect the intended effect? The English language is full of cruel tricks. There are many examples of English words …
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