Tag: language

November 14, 2014 at 3:48 pm

Japanese Discount Store Shirts with Random English Words

Japanese Discount Store Shirts with Random English Words

Reddit user k-popstar recently moved to Japan to teach English. Over the last few months he has been wandering into various discount stores and taking photos of shirts with random English words on them. I have to admit, that potato one is pretty sweet! You can find the entire album on Imgur. [via k-popstar]…

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November 13, 2014 at 12:45 am

Deaf Since Birth, a 15-Year-Old has His First Conversation

Deaf Since Birth, a 15-Year-Old has His First Conversation

Patrick Otema, 15, was born profoundly deaf. In the remote area of Uganda where he lives there are no schools for deaf children, and he has never had a conversation. Raymond Okkelo, a sign language teacher, hopes to change all this and offer Patrick a way out of the fearful silence he has known…

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November 11, 2014 at 4:46 pm

The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done

The Fear That Everything Has Already Been Done

vemödalen – n. the frustration of photographing something amazing when thousands of identical photos already exist—the same sunset, the same waterfall, the same curve of a hip, the same closeup of an eye—which can turn a unique subject into something hollow and pulpy and cheap, like a mass-produced piece of furniture you happen to…

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October 29, 2014 at 8:43 am

Daniel Radcliffe Raps ‘Alphabet Aerobics’ on Jimmy Fallon

Daniel Radcliffe Raps 'Alphabet Aerobics' on Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy challenges hip-hop lover Daniel Radcliffe to rap Blackalicious’ tongue-twisting “Alphabet Aerobics,” and he nails it. You’re a lyrical wizard Harry! You can hear the original song below (released in 1999) with motion typography added to highlight the tongue-twisting lyrics.

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October 14, 2014 at 4:23 pm

This Dramatic Reading of Nicki Minaj’s Anaconda Shows How Ridiculous the Lyrics Are

This Dramatic Reading of Nicki Minaj's Anaconda Shows How Ridiculous the Lyrics Are

Parental Advisory: Explicit Lyrics Ian Martin decided to do a dramatic reading of Nicki Minaj’s song Anaconda, after he heard that his 12-year old niece and all of her friends were listening to the song. He said he made it for his Mom so she could hear how inappropriate the lyrics were for young…

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October 2, 2014 at 4:45 pm

Teacher Asks Students to Write Haikus, This Kid Wins

Teacher Asks Students to Write Haikus, This Kid Wins

I think this might be / Quite possibly the greatest / Haiku of all time When a class of schoolchildren were asked to write haikus, this sassy submission was the clear-cut winner. Step aside ‘haikus are easy / but sometimes they don’t make sense / refrigerator‘ a new champion has been crowned. A haiku…

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September 30, 2014 at 10:11 am

Teenage ‘Hyperpolyglot’ Breezes Through 20 Languages in Single Take

Teenage 'Hyperpolyglot' Breezes Through 20 Languages in Single Take

Timothy Doner is a teenage ‘hyperpolyglot’ with conversational proficiency in over 20 different languages. While he only considers himself fluent in about five or six tongues, the linguist clearly has a knack (and keen interest) for learning new languages. In the video above (which was actually filmed in 2012 when he was only 16),…

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September 26, 2014 at 1:22 pm

Benedict Cumberbatch Can’t Pronounce “Penguins”

Benedict Cumberbatch Can't Pronounce "Penguins"

Even when he messes up it just makes him more relatable. Cumberbatch can do no wrong! As a random side note, did you know Emperor penguins (not the ones shown in the video above), can dive to 1,850 feet (565 meters) underwater? That’s deeper than any other bird in the world and deeper than…

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July 31, 2014 at 3:11 pm

Here’s an Interesting Sentence

Here's an Interesting Sentence

I do not know where family doctors acquired illegibly perplexing handwriting; nevertheless, extraordinary pharmaceutical intellectuality counterbalancing indecipherability transcendentalizes intercommunication’s incomprehensibleness. Here we see a twenty-word sentence where each successive word increases in length by a single letter until we arrive at incomprehensibleness. A literary gem! If you enjoyed this post,…

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July 17, 2014 at 4:44 pm

Principal Writes Incredible Letter to Students Regarding Standardized Test Results

Principal Writes Incredible Letter to Students Regarding Standardized Test Results

After receiving their standardized test results, students at the Barrowford Primary School in Lancashire, England received a letter from their principal Rachel Tomlinson. The letter, posted below, reminds students of all the things a standardized test doesn’t measure. The letter was inspired by fellow educator Kimberley Hurd, who penned a blog post last October…

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