Integrating with your in-laws can be one of the more difficult parts of married life, and this is especially true if you come from different countries or cultures. When you literally speak a different language, some things can get lost in translation—and if you’re particularly unlucky, that can happen on purpose. You may find yourself …
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25+ Memes for the Bilingual Struggle
English is all fun and games until you’re faced with to, too, and two. Or all the different uses of «was.» Or the endless homographs like bass and bass and wind and wind and wound and wound. To say nothing of the homophones. Or the myriad exceptions to the myriad rules. English is not easy, …
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20+ Hilarious Typos and Unique Sentences That Boggle the Mind
Words: they’re difficult sometimes. Take it from somebody who spends most of their days looking at ‘em and typing ‘em, it’s very easy to trip yourself up when you least expect it. Sometimes, something as simple as a three-word text can offer the potential for disaster, and if you’re writing out anything longer? Well, Godspeed. …
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‘The high five was invented in 1977’: Etymologists reveal the origins of well-known words and phrases
One of the many mind-bending things about knowing a language is how many words and sayings we use while having next to no idea of their origin. Writing and speech change all the time, and when they are built on for hundreds or thousands of years it’s inevitable that some things are going to get …
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25+ Puntastic Wordplay Memes and Posts That Clown Around With Double Meanings
The English language is truly one of the craziest inventions that human beings have ever come up with. This thing has more than 170,000 words, many of which sound similar to one another, and countless dumb grammatical rules that even native speakers have a problem getting the hang of. It is basically begging to be …
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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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41 Polyglot Memes for Language Learners With Their Tongue in a Twist
Whether you’re learning your second, third, or fourth language, there’s always something special about picking up a few words that are unfamiliar. However, your misplaced confidence will quickly deflate when you have your tongue in a twist and your foot in your mouth after accidentally insulting some poor restaurant employee’s grandma. Learning another language can be …
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27 Things That Were So Wrong, They Became Right
Perspective is one heck of a thing. It’s amazing how different people and contexts can change a concept that was once set in stone to something completely different, but it happens all the time! We are more flexible than we give ourselves credit for, even if half the time it’s the product of our own …
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Unpopular Opinions That Are Actually Unpopular
People claim to have «unpopular opinions» all the time, but just because you say an opinion is unpopular doesn’t make it so. One of my unpopular opinions is that, barring an actual emergency, people should not be more than 5 minutes late for anything. Most of y’all probably find that unreasonable, and it likely is, …
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Word Memes For Vocabulary Fans Who Can’t Stop Looking Up Definitions
I love words. I know it might be hard to believe, but nearly every class I took in college had something to do with reading, writing, or language. I was an English major with minors in Professional Writing and Linguistics, so I was quite literally obsessed with the English language. I am addicted to learning …
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