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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Wacky Chinese McDonald’s Menu Translations Amuse Twitter
Translation is an art form. All different languages and cultures have varied ways of expressing themselves, and capturing that while making the text make sense is no mean feat. While online translation tools have come on from leaps and bounds since the days when young millennials used to try and cheat on their Spanish homework …
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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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Creative Wordsmiths Who Birthed Brand New Sentences Into the World
Language is one of the greatest gifts we have as human beings. We can do many wonderful things with our writing and speech, from creating brilliant classic literature to finding ever more creative ways to swear. The English language alone contains over a million words, so we can only imagine how many different sentences that …
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Silly Language Memes and Puns to Remind Us That Words Are Ridiculous
There are many ways to be an artist. Some people paint, others sing, a small minority do cross stitch with swear words on it to sell on Etsy. However, one of the most fun and accessible ways to practice art is by using our words. There are billions of different ways to make jokes with …
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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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The Funniest Programming Memes of the Week (September 18th, 2022)
So many people think that if you’re a programmer, you must have a purely analytical brain with no room for creativity. That is patently untrue because everyone who has programmed anything knows that there’s one arena in the code that allows you to stretch your creative muscles fully. I’m talking, of course, about the comments. …
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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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Delightfully Unique Insults That Are as Clever as They Are Cruel
Language is a gift that so few of us use to its full potential. Every day, we recycle the same old phrases, jokes, and even conversations to create a kind of mutual understanding with one another, but it can easily get boring if we’re not careful. This is especially true of our so-called more «colorful» …
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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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