“Juke Box”, a song by Fred Buscaglione in Italian
As soon as I got this CD, I fell in love with this song. It sounds exactly like the kind of song you would hear playing in a small italian cafe somewhere in Italy. But really, it is just a fun song. It is about the Juke Box, which the singer calls a “magical invention”. […]
When you’re trying to reach the word count on your essay
The results of rephrasing things to increase word count can sometimes cause humorous results 😀 Because rephrasing things can cause an increase in word count which is often achieved by rephrasing things. And did I mention that writing more words can cause word count to increase? 😀
How would you rate these irish accents? Some of them are really bad!
It is really tought trying out accents you don’t know well. Some people don’t put a lot of work into their accents and it shows. Make sure you don’t try accents you don’t know that well to native speakers of that accent 😀 But if you wanna have a laugh with some friends, just give […]
Beowulf vs Grendal – Old English
Obviously Beowulf is really important to the history of English and to understand how English came to be. But it probably shouldn’t be read with a lot of pomp and circumstance. It was just a story people would tell around the fire. It was a story to entertain people late at night. It had word […]
How to Talk Like Shakespeare
Shakespeare lived during the late 1500s and early 1600s. This period is known as Early Modern English. For the most part people living today can understand Shakespeare’s work but some parts will need to be explained. But one thing that has changed a lot since then is pronunciation. People have been painstakingly reconstructing the pronunciation […]
Emojis: a picture says a thousand words
http://www.theguardian.com/technology/2015/apr/29/instagram-ban-eggplant-emoji-sexters-fruity-alternatives I think emojis are an interesting development in communication. Having recently been aded to unicode, they are now even more widely available. Some have started using the eggplant emoji in a sexually suggestive way, which has lead instagram to ban them. What are you thoughts on this?
