Oblivious Company Emails ‘Pride Wordsearch’ to Employees, Gets Roasted for Questionable Allyship

It’s a tale as old as the pink dollar: the month of June rolls around, and every company who wants those sweet egalitarian profits makes an empty gesture towards the LGBTQ+ community. The most famous and well memed example of this is the rainbow pride month logo, but some businesses go even further than that.  …
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People Share Their Most Embarrassing Pronunciation Fails

It’s pretty common knowledge that English is far from the most logical of languages. I can’t imagine how difficult it is to make sense of words like «their», «there,» and «they’re.» Spelling may not be quite as difficult as Gaelic or Welsh, but making sense of silent or fickle letters must be frustrating.   Even …
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‘Goblin Mode’ is Crowned Oxford Word of the Year, The Internet Acts Accordingly

Something about the past couple of years has made many of us really embrace our wild side. As crisis gripped the world and populations were forced into an isolated existence, we began to shake off the shackles of pointless societal expectations. A lot of people no longer had to make small talk, or wear pants …
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Amused Uncle Starts Hilarious Thread on How Accurately Kids Misname Things

Little kids have a reputation for not being the greatest with language. What with all the dumb, complex grammatical rules and 171,146 English words (and counting), you can’t really blame them for failing to be walking dictionaries. That being said, this means that children are nothing if not creative when it comes to their words. …
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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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Uncle Is Amused by Niece’s Name for Aquariums, Starts Thread on How Accurately Kids Misname Things

Little kids have a reputation for not being the greatest with language. What with all the dumb, complex grammatical rules and 171,146 English words (and counting), you can’t really blame them for failing to be walking dictionaries. That being said, this means that children are nothing if not creative when it comes to their words. …
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30+ Linguistic Memes For Lovers of Language

Language and memes have a lot in common if you think about it. They’re both important communication tools. Both are ever-changing foundations of contemporary culture. Both often require some context to better understand their nuances. It makes total sense that a linguist might be interested in image macros. Memes sort of function as a writing …
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38 Brilliant Stoner Names For Everyday Stuff

Y’all ever get so stoned off of the reefer that you forgot the names of simple, everyday things? Yeah, uhh, us either. If THAT were to happen, we might come up with our own clever substitute terminologies so as to attempt to communicate. That’s basically what we’re serving up here. While some of the «stoner …
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33 Linguistic Memes For Lovers Of Language

Language and memes have a lot in common if you think about it. They’re both important communication tools. Both are ever-changing foundations of contemporary culture. Both often require some context to better understand their nuances. It makes total sense that a linguist might be interested in image macros. Memes sort of function as a writing …
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33 Funny Linguistic Memes For Lovers Of Language

Language and memes have a lot in common if you think about it. They’re both important communication tools. Both are ever-changing foundations of contemporary culture. Both often require some context to better understand their nuances. It makes total sense that a linguist might be interested in image macros. Memes sort of function as a writing …
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