Ever see a movie title and think, «Man, they could do better»? Yeah, me too. While Snakes on a Plane may not fall into this category, there are plenty of American titles that could, well, be better. Thanks to a Twitter thread from @juanbuis, we now know that the French would have to agree. In …
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Hilarious Wikipedia Moments That Have Reliable Sources
Wikipedia is one of the most useful websites on the internet. It might not be suitable for academic articles, but it’s perfect when you want thorough and compelling information about a topic you are ignorant about. If you need help grasping new concepts quickly, there’s no better place to go than Wikipedia. I’m a little …
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Language Memes For Linguists 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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Language Memes For Linguists Screaming 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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Literature Memes For Real Readers
As a former English major, I feel like I can easily scope out a «fake fan» of literature. I don’t care to do so on a regular basis because I have a life and a job, but put a so-called bookworm in front of me and I can scope out their vibe in less than …
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Funny Memes To Haha And Hoho To
I love when people have such unique laughs that simply hearing them laughing will make you laugh. It really adds some much-needed biodiversity to the ecosystem of laughter. I don’t know about you, but I feel like my laugh has definitely changed and evolved over the years. I used to watch a comedian who herself …
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Woman Perfectly Emulates That Pretentious American Who Returns From Abroad With a Whole New Personality and Terrible Accent
That reverse culture-shock though
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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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»…
53 Language-Related Memes For Frustrated Polyglots
We’d really like to take this time to recognize all the bilinguals, polyglots and people who are just trying to learn another language. Anyone who’s studied a foreign language knows that it’s extremely frustrating, to say the least – especially when you think you know a lot and then get totally destroyed by a native …
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