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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People of the Internet Share the Smallest Hills They’re Willing to Die On

We all have our own petty causes that get us riled up. I think self-care routine videos are incredibly annoying and should be banned. Recently, Redditor u/hegotthedream asked the fine folks of r/AskReddit to share the «smallest hill» that they’re willing to die on.  The responses were quite interesting and revealed that everyone is passionate …
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15+ Wild Typos That Truly Boggle the Mind

Literacy isn’t an easy skill to have, especially when it comes to the English language. Even the accomplished writer can get confused with all the dumb rules that it seems to have.  At the same time, many of us nowadays use text as one of our primary forms of communication. When most of us have …
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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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Hilarious Spelling Fails That Highlight the Power of Proofreading

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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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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Persnickety Grammar Memes for Haters of Misplaced Apostrophes

The English language is a hell of a trip. All those thousands of years of creating words and stealing from other tongues have made it something that most of us need to study from kindergarten just to understand how to use it. Even the most devoted grammarians make the occasional mistake with English, because there …
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Hilarious Spelling Fails That Prove The Power of Proofreading

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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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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