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Gorgeous pictures of Russia by Simon Roberts.
Brian Kiteley, who teaches creative writing at Denver University and has written a writing manual called 3 AM Epiphany, has some fascinating notes about the way English speakers relate to the logic and culture manifested in the very syntax and style of foreign languages. Here’s an example:
If conceptual concreteness may be measured by the density […]
The state legislature of Arkansas is working on a law to specify the spelling of the possessive case of Arkansas–Arkansas’s, not Arkansas’. This reminds me of Massachusetts passing a law to call all Massachusettsians residents Bay Staters.Middle-school spellers everywhere rejoice.
When I worked in business, I had a client who picked a new name after a merger. The name meant something rather obscene in Portuguese, but, despite relying on Brazilian revenues, the company had already invested too much money in the new brand name by the time the snafu was discovered to turn back. Luckily, […]