Humour, Language

The Sunny Shores of Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch

Llanfairpwllgwyngyllgogerychwyrndrobwllllantysiliogogogoch: I never knew this place existed.  I never knew it was real.  And now that I know, there is nothing I can do about it because I could never say it or spell it. This guy, however, should be given some kind of award: I was also thinking about how cool it would look on a Canadian letter mailed.…

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Business, Humour, Language

FUQ! F-UP! F-U! ARRG!

Today I had a very unique problem related to the English language. Even today it bothers me and so I’m reaching out to the world webs to see if anyone can help me. So I’m using this contact management system for my sales job.  During the course of my job (and if you are in sales or many other businesses…

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Language, Life Skills

Typoglycemia and Speed Reading

Today I was thinking about the mind and how typos can be easily read and understood by people of the same mother tongue.  I finally found the example by searching the keywords ‘ESL, typos, understand, native,”.  Here is a good summary of what’s up with typoglycemia What jumped out at me was the explanation of why ‘they’ think it happens.…

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Humour, Language

Bangus Spanish Style

I’m trying to grow up.  Really, I am.  The problem is that I keep running into things that make my inner 12 year old laugh.  Thanks to a Spanish company, I’ve immatured again. This blog is only really funny if you are Korean or if you have studied Korean a bit.  It also may qualify as funny if you are…

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Humour, Language, Life Skills

Why the Crapital Letters?

So there I am typing an email to someone who sits somewhere between a friend, an acquaintance and a business partner.  I had begun the email typing very quickly, not even taking the time to hit the shift key to capitalize his name. At the end of the email, as is customary, I nailed the shift key and typed my…

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