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View ArticleShaking Like a Samurai - Musha Burui
One of my favorite things about learning Japanese and living here for over half my life is discovering all the words and phrases that have no exact equivalent in English. It’s an incredible feeling...
View ArticleBreasts aren't "boobs" or "titties" but rather "tiddies" or "titays"
"Titties" is a stupid word. It's so stupid and gross that some millennials are replacing it with even more ridiculous words like "tiddies" or "titays." Brilliantly funny MEL Magazine editor Alana Hope...
View ArticleWhat do Japanese think of English swear words?
Asian Boss hit the streets of Tokyo to ask Japanese people what they thought of English curse words, oaths, insults, and epithets compared to Japanese ones. One person pointed out that English swear...
View ArticleSriracha, yowza, and sheeple among 300 new words in Scrabble dictionary
Four years since the last edition, Merriam-Webster's Official Scrabble Players Dictionary is on now shelves. From The Guardian: Included in the new edition are some long-awaited two letter words,...
View ArticleUrban Dictionary attempts to incorporate Kavanaugh's definition of "Devil's...
A "Devil's Triangle" is a widely used term for an act of sexual congress between two men and a woman; but during his hearing, Brett Kavanaugh nonsensically insisted that this was some sort of drinking...
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L.A. morning show host surprised that a K-pop star from Vancouver speaks English
After K-pop group NCT 127 from Vancouver, Canada performed on KTTV-Fox 11's Good Day L.A., host Araksya Karapetyan gave one of the singers an odd compliment: "Very cool, your English is awesome. I love...
View ArticleThe Girlfriend Zone: the inverse of "the friend zone"
The Girlfriend Zone is the place that women find themselves repeatedly and insufferably placed into by their male platonic friends, who can't or won't understand that the relationship is and will...
View ArticleYikes is over.
Seeing a slight resurgence online this week, perhaps due to issues related to the government shutdown, is the viral term "Yikes!" I humbly propose that this shopworn exclamation be replaced for the...
View ArticleHow to: make up swears
The power of fuckbonnet, shitsquib, fuckstumbling, douchenozzle, Fuckface von Clownstick, shitwhistle, cockbucket, can be captured through a simple formula: the "pyrrhic foot" of a "familiar profanity...
View ArticleDialect quiz tracks down where you grew up
I was easy to locate because the term "Had" for the game "Tag" puts my childhood very precisely in Worthing, England, right by Brighton in this map. But it also knows I spent two years in Essex. The...
View Article"We take your privacy and security seriously" is the "thoughts and prayers"...
Writing on Techcrunch, Zack Whittaker (previously) calls out the timeworn phrase "we take your privacy and security seriously," pointing out that this phrase appears routinely in company responses to...
View ArticlePhonetically consistent English
English is a dragon of a language, dozing atop an enormous mountain of phonemes. What if they were all melted down and minted into something more consistent? And then we tried to speak it? The results...
View ArticleSome pretty impressive machine-learning generated poetry courtesy of GPT-2
GPT-2 is Open AI's language-generation model (last seen around these parts as a means of detecting machine-generated text); it's powerful and cool, and Gwern Branwen fed it the Project Gutenberg...
View ArticleWatch French people try to say difficult English words
Hitting them with "Throughout" first is pretty sadistic. But that they stumble on "choir" suggests that they are hamming it up, un peu?
View ArticleSoap for grammar police
The Whiskey River Soap Company's funny soap varieties mostly fall flat for me, but there's one exception: the Grammar Police edition. (Thanks, Fipi Lele!) Read the rest
View ArticleA madlibs science fiction plot generator
Grether Labs's Science Fiction Plot Generator can sure pick 'em: "You are friends with a talking fireplace, and you are working to solve this ancient puzzle before the creatures consume you"; "You are...
View ArticleMovie theater changed "Hellboy" to "Heckboy" on marquee
The Roxy 8 Movie Theater in Dickson, Tennessee changed the title of Hellboy to Heckboy on its marquee. From WZTV: (Owner Belinda) Daniel told FOX 17 News that she has never displayed any words on the...
View ArticleWhat old English perhaps sounded like
In this clip, an Englishman circa 800 A.D. is asked to chatter about his life. He understands the eallníwe léasspellung but prefers the old talk. A fun little thing to show reconstructed pronunciation...
View ArticleSelf-driving car jargon
Bruce Sterling republishes the acronyms in a recent Daimler white-paper on self-driving cars: Advanced Driver Assistance System Automated Driving System Automotive Safety Integrity Level Automotive...
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