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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: November 09, 2018, 06:47:35 PM »

P Is for Pterodactyl: The Worst Alphabet Book Ever

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: August 28, 2018, 05:26:39 PM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: August 16, 2018, 06:35:19 AM »

"All Star" translated to Aramaic and back to English.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: March 08, 2018, 05:31:29 AM »

Good timing... Merriam Webster adds "dumpster fire" to dictionary

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: February 23, 2018, 04:32:06 PM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: September 20, 2017, 11:25:45 AM »

Quote from: Kate Boots on September 20, 2017, 10:10:40 AM

Is there a link for that? I would love to be able to pass that along to The Professor.

I'm not entirely sure where it originated from.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: September 20, 2017, 09:55:17 AM »

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: June 25, 2017, 10:58:02 AM »

$10 million lawsuit declares that the Oxford comma is necessary

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English & Linguistics / Re: Trying a little experiment

« on: November 26, 2016, 11:07:13 AM »

Does this mean we now have to watch our grammar closely for fear that others might think us uneducated idiots? Asking for a friend...

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: April 28, 2016, 10:05:02 PM »

Edit: I'm an idiot.

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English & Linguistics / Re: Interesting language stuff

« on: April 02, 2016, 02:59:42 PM »

AP Style alert: Don’t capitalize "internet" and "web" anymore

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Associated Press editors announced a new stylebook change Saturday ahead of a session at the annual American Copy Editors Society's conference — the 2016 stylebook will lowercase the words "internet" and "web."

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: January 21, 2016, 08:43:59 AM »

The singular ‘they’ has been declared Word of the Year (Washington Post)

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: December 22, 2015, 10:30:09 AM »

At the company I work at, as a reward for shipping our first product, they gave each person a steel buckler with a label indicating the game we shipped.

It also includes a label signifying a sort of rank depending on your involvement with the project. The levels were "scout", "sentinel", "warrior", "ninja" and "zen master".

I received "warrior", but a majority of the staff (half of them, to be precise) were given the title of "sentinel". Unfortunately... they didn't bother to use spellcheck, so half our employees have no choice but to proudly display their rank of "sentinal":

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***headdesk!!!***

Hey, at least I'm a warrior...

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: September 26, 2015, 11:47:54 PM »

WebMD's glossary of teen slang

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English & Linguistics / Re: Funny English and Linguistics stuff...

« on: August 25, 2015, 12:17:10 PM »

How to use a comma (Facebook video)

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English & Linguistics / Re: Quotes from work

« on: August 20, 2015, 06:45:53 AM »

Quote from: Jonathon on August 17, 2015, 01:01:23 PM

From an author bio:

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Named in Who’s Who in America for the last ten years . . .

Well, if the email invitations are any indication, I would have been on that list the last thirty years had I decided to actually pay them for such an honor.

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