Category: Mini Posts

Do Women Talk More Than Men?

Ah, yes, the ages old quip about talkative ladies. Drawing the ire of many a woman and the insipid chuckles of many a bro in a popped-collared polo, this is one of those annoying questions you may already have assumed to know the answer to, but that I felt merited addressing anyway: do women talk…
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Why do we Say “Pardon my French?”

Unfortunately for the French, they’ve managed to accumulate an unfair number of negative stereotypes over the years, most of which are fairly unfounded, or at the very least highly dated, but we’re not here to play on those right now. A popular English idiom – pardon my French, or occasionally excuse my French – is…
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How to Keep Language Learning Cheap but Still Receive Quality and Efficacy

This article is sponsored by Preply   Learning a second language can enrich your life in ways you wouldn’t imagine. Your international travel becomes easier, you become more marketable as a potential employee, it can play a role in getting you get into college, and help you meet new people. However, learning a foreign language…
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International Talk Like a Pirate Day: The Origins O’ Pirate Speak

Avast me hearties! September 19th be International Talk Like A Pirate Day! Talk Like a Pirate Day is a “parody holiday” on which everyone, everywhere, is instructed to, well, talk like a pirate. Go figure. However, it has taken the Internet by storm lately, and the population in general since it was created in 1995.…
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My Review of Drops Language Learning App

It’s not every day that I come across a new language learning app that I actually like, and I’ve done a lot of product reviews lately – something I kinda swore off several months ago. What can I say, I’m being retro. In any case, several weekends ago, I was lying in bed after an…
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Anthropodermic Bibliopegy – Books Bound in Human Skin

Books are a generally happy and wholesome topic that most people who aren’t Kanye West agree are interesting, valuable, or otherwise just generally positive elements in our lives. I very recently wrote a  lengthy article about Johannes Gutenberg’s printing press and, despite its enormous impact on European life and the trajectory of the world thereafter,…
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