25 Weird, Witty, and Wonderful Language-Related Terms From Phrops and Feghoots to Grawlix and Malaphors thoughtco.com/witty-and-wond…

#ScottishEnglish 😎 😂

Humans doing the hard jobs on minimum wage while the robots write poetry and paint is not the future I wanted

“Shit” as a separable prefix will never stop being funny

If I could banish magic from my track, Unlearn the spells that draw me back, And stand before you, Nature, as mere Man, Then would it be worth the trouble of being Human. (Faust, Goethe)

Hey Chuck Vaile ... here's a comedian I know you'll like

Just discovered that the name of Venerable Bede and Buddha are etymologically related--both from a PIE root that means "awaken". Very cool!

English weather is wet German weather is Wetter English kids are kind German kids are Kinder English mothers mumble German mothers Mutter The English shout the word people But Germans just quietly Menschen it And English sausages can be bad But a German sausage is the Wurst

It's #WorldPenguinDay! Here are some meanings of the word for penguin in other languages: 5. Mörgæs (Icelandic) = fat goose 4. Manchot (French) = armless 3. Chim cánh cụt (Vietnamese) = amputated wing bird 2. 企鵝 (Mandarin) = tiptoe goose 1. ភេនឃ្វីន (Khmer) = ice duck

The best scene in cinematic history.

Never more urgent Jeanette Winterson ❤️

🔴DIRECT - Marie-Claude Pietragalla fait danser la flamme olympique au sein même du Louvre, devant "La Liberté guidant le peuple" d'Eugène Delacroix. #franceinfo #canal27

Philippe Katerine est devenu un dessert en Chine. Ça nous dépasse totalement 😅

"Reimagining a world where white people are the pinnacle of human evolution as using this status as the ‘superior’ species as a justification for colonisation, slavery and countless other atrocities committed throughout history." Luke Pearson 👉🏾 indigenousx.com.au/its-time-to-st…

"Cultures do not exist as a smorgasbord for western society to extract from, to pick and choose what is ‘useful’ or important and, by extension, which aspects are ok to destroy, disregard or force to disappear from the planet." 🔗 Read more here: indigenousx.com.au/its-time-to-st…

I got ChatGPT advanced voice mode to speak Singlish (Singaporean version of English) and that was wow. Then i found out it can speak slight variations of Singlish!! My 🧠 brain exploded. What kind of sorcery is this! #chatgpt #ai #voice #singlish #alamak

Student feedback for AI generated podcast (Notebook.LM). How much did they love the AI? open.substack.com/pub/taniasheko…

🤥 It’s no lie that “lie” and “lay” are confusing. 💁🏻 Here’s the difference: tinyurl.com/yaxm9drf #vocabulary #spelling #grammar

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