Aug 28
Because language doesn’t really matter anymore to the Internet
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Aug 21
When’s the last time you put all your eggs in one basket? Probably never. But! When’s the last time you put all your data in one hard drive? Probably right now (you gotta learn better backup habits). And though we know that practice makes perfect and that patience is a virtue, what actually applies to real life is that Photoshop makes perfect and waiting for a page to load is a virtue.
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Aug 14
Grammar loving folks who love to point out where commas should be inserted instead of periods and how semi-colons are both simultaneously underused and overused, should pick up their red pens, furrowed brows and pitchforks at the fact that the definition of literally is literally no longer the literal definition of literally. The trolls who say "literally" when they’re being completely non-literal and say it as an exaggeration or emphasizing something have won.
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Aug 07
Are you a lazy texter? Do you have fat fingers? Did you sleep through all of your English classes? Well, none of that matters any more with the imminent release of new software that not only autocorrects your misspelled words but also fixes your grammar mistakes.
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Aug 06
Though we know the real longest word in English takes three and a half hours to pronounce
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Jul 31
I make an ass out of myself at least twice a month from butchering the pronunciation of a word. It’s always embarrassing! There’s only two things you can do when you have no idea how to say something, either quietly whisper but quickly gloss over the word so no one hears you or say it with such complete confidence that you confuse the hell out of people who really do know how it’s pronounced.
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Jul 31
The problem with all the hackneyed old sayings we all insist on using is just that: they’re old. They refer to things that are dead or dying. But hey, here’s a handy list of old clichéd sayings, updated for the modern world.
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Jul 29
When we tell the future children of the world that you shouldn’t judge a book by its cover, they’ll stare at their iPad and wonder what the hell a book is. Does that old fart mean an app? When we tell them to scratch our back and we’ll scratch theirs, they’ll wonder why are we even talking to each other in IRL. And when we say close, but no cigar… well, actually even I have no idea why that ever made sense.
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Jul 25
Google Translate now accepts handwriting as an input–so you can offer your scrawl up to be converte
Posted in: Today's ChiliGoogle Translate now accepts handwriting as an input—so you can offer your scrawl up to be converted.
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Jun 20
Is it Math or Maths?
Posted in: Today's ChiliThis is an American blog, but I am a British blogger. That naturally causes occasional tensions, especially when it comes to spelling. And the biggest issue? Math or maths.
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