Speak Slang Just Like the Kids These Days
I have a really bad habit of using a lot of slang and swearing. If you talk to me in a non-professional setting, I curse like a motherfucking sailor. When I spend a lot of time around people, I pick up...
View ArticleScandal Alert! Students in Spanish Class Forced to Speak Language that is not...
Increasingly irrelevant huckster Glenn Beck is outraged again. This time because students in a Texas Spanish class were forced to recite actual Spanish for an assignment about the Mexican War of...
View ArticleQOTD: 5 Words
Really, really simple. You’re going to be stuck in a foreign country for a month where hardly anyone speaks English. If you could only know 5 words in the language of that country, what words would...
View ArticleWhat Kind of American Accent Do You Have?
The big melting pot of America has many accents. Or at least you all do but I speak nothing but straight up American. There is a neat quiz that helps analyze what type of accent you have. Report back....
View ArticleThat Which We Call A Rose
No one is immune to the volcanic force of language. An altered preposition, an inflection or a simple nuance can change the course of events if not our mood for the day. This awesome power is...
View ArticleWe all Spoke English, just not the Same Language – The Circumstance of...
This post is part of a series that discusses topics from the perspectives of the characters of the forthcoming novel, The Circumstance of Marriage, which is set to release in late April/early May of...
View ArticlePhonetic Phriday: Whan That Aprille Day Celebrating Old Languages
Geoffrey Chaucer doth humbly request that thou celebrate an old, middle, ancient, archaic or dead language on the first day of April. Ways that one can celebrate, according to Mr. Chaucer, include:...
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