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Culture Buzz Count each F once in the passage below…
Culture Buzz Learn to speak the native language, and you just might get to stick around — trust me when I say it definitely beats the alternative. Or so suggests the latest ad for Brazil’s language school CCAA.
Culture Buzz An instructional video on how to pronounce the McDonald's glyph. I guess I feel informed, but moreover I feel like I'm going to have nightmares tonight.
Movie Buzz Armanda Alvarez is scheduled to make moviegoers nationwide feel really smart on March 16. (via geektyrant.com)
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What languages do we read Wikipedia in? Data specialists collected information on six of the main languages used on Wikipedia (out of 282) and their dispersion rate.
http://www.neatorama.com/2011/04/14/the-last-two-speakers...
Sounds like the set up to a comedy skit, but it's a sad reality.
Matt Rogers has taken Stephen Fry's wonderfully narrated and articulate essay on language and given it the kinetic typography animation treatment. It's kind of like that CeeLo Green video, only British and without the repeated use of the F-bomb.
The idea that your mother tongue shapes your experience of the world may be true after all.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/08/31/us/31elder.html?partner...
Older immigrants, cut off from society by language and culture differences, are now America's fastest-growing immigrant group.
Culture Buzz If you’re alive and have been using the internet lately, you’ve inevitably heard the term, “FAIL” (used primarily in conjunction with “Sarah Palin” or when anyone truly f*cks up). But is there a FAIL backlash on the horizon? Even crappy verbage like LOL has survived the test of time. So WTF? Why not FAIL?
Sports Buzz The LPGA (Ladies Professional Golf Association) is requiring that all members speak English. Many see it as an attack against the 45 South Koreans on tour, but the LPGA insists that players need to speak English in order to satisfy sponsors. Beginning in 2009, players who have been on the tour for more than 2 years must pass an oral evaluation or face suspension.
It's a veritable “Breaking Bad” buffet. Okay, technically, these…
