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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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Proofreader Offers Useful Mnemonic 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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Suspicious “Quotes” That Give Words A New Meaning
Mastering written English is a difficult endeavor. With all the grammatical rules and different languages it steals from, speaking it can be hard enough. However, add putting pen to paper into the mix and there’s a whole new rulebook to contend with. Many pedants out there have raged against the mistakes that people frequently make …
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Student Despairs At Entertaining English Final Presentation
There is no pressure in the world as uniquely terrifying as education-related stress. Every exam and assignment is a reminder that you’re meant to be investing in your future, and even worse, that you’re preparing yourself for getting a job someday. Most of us have flunked something in school at some point, and it often …
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Literal Translations That Prove Language Is Illogical
Learning a language is hard enough as is without factoring in all of the colloquialisms that aren’t natural for a non-native speaker. The following posts make fun of translations from English into other languages, but let’s not forget how ridiculous English is; you gotta admit that «frog’s umbrella» makes a lot more sense than «mushroom»…
Revelatory Thread Inspires Lightbulb Moments About Where Words And Phrases Actually Come From
If there’s one thing we can all agree on from years of speaking, reading and writing, it’s that the English language seems to operate in the most mysterious of ways. Between all the archaic grammatical rules and words that are a mishmash of several other different tongues, it’s a wonder non-native speakers manage to understand …
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