Your writing style is important – particularly if you use it for your blog. It’s how you engage your audience and communicate information that you want to convey to them. There are many different ways of writing. The most common on blogs is usually expository writing....
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Today is National Grammar Day, which is celebrated on the 4th of March of every year in the United States. I've previously written about it here . It is noteworthy that according to Global Language Monitor, the estimated number of words in the English language is 1,025,109. While there...
Today is National Grammar Day,...
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I was in tears after I watched this. I say all other companies thinking of running Christmas ads for this season should simply stop trying! It's got the perfect amount of humor, warmth, Christmas vibes, tradition and Aww effect. The cherry on top? It's the super...
I was in tears after I watched...
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There is no denying the huge difference between machine and human translation. No matter how advanced machine translation gets, it will always lack the "human" touch. The latter gives the text a higher quality, more cohesion and accuracy. In a more trendy word, it gives the...
There is no denying the huge d...
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Founded in 1994 by William Sieghart, National Poetry Day is celebrated on the first or second Thursday of October of every year in the UK and Ireland. It is a British campaign aiming at promoting poetry and public performances of poetry. It also encourages people...
Founded in 1994 by William Sie...
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Ah, how I miss my college days! However, I don’t miss all the stress and panic attacks: every time I had an essay to write, I had to address the 5 C’s of hell: Will my essay be correct, concise, cohesive, coherent, and catchy? Luckily, students today...
Ah, how I miss my college days...
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National Punctuation Day is celebrated each year on September 24 in the United States. Founded by Jeff Rubin in 2004, National Punctuation Day aims at promoting the correct usage of punctuation, where appreciators of correct punctuation and spelling are encouraged to share pictures of errors spotted in everyday life. I...
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Oxford English Dictionary just added 1000 new words, and they are as random and cheeseball as they can get! From MOOBS (man boobs) to YOLO (You Only Live Once), Oxford added whatever you can think of. In case you don't wanna fuhgeddabboudit, check out the entire list...
Oxford English Dictionary just...
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Google honored Egyptian stage and screen actor Fouad el-Mohandes with a doodle today. Born on September 6, 1924 in Cairo, el-Mohandes knew stardom from the 1950s on to the early 2000s, having played, for the most part, comedy roles in dozens of theater, cinema, and TV...
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Tamyras invested in two years of hard work and finally succeeded in getting Larousse to add the word “Beyrouthin” to the French Dictionary. Several articles were published, and many other letters were written to the French Academy and Larousse, with the main effort being the...
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This is one of my favorite English poems! I am an English grammar/pronunciation enthusiast (in the crazy case you didn't know that before :P), and The Chaos by Gerard Nolst Trenité a.k.a. "Charivarius" (Netherlands, 1870 - 1946) is a classic English poem which contains around...
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While many argue that interpretation is more difficult than translation, I find that the two professions shouldn't be compared. Each has its own set of skills and requires a fair amount of know-how. Also, while others argue than only people who studied interpretation get to be...
While many argue that interpre...
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Are you an American English speaker or a British English speaker? In case you had no idea, well this is a list of a few terms that differ between British and American English. [caption id="attachment_1095" align="aligncenter" width="211"] A few terms to differentiate between British and American English.[/caption] Check...
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Tongue twisters are sentences that are difficult to articulate properly, especially when repeated several times in a row. Such sentences can be found in all cultures and languages. Seeing that my blog post for my Top Ten favorite Tongue Twisters is one of the most popular posts...
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I've been meaning to establish a "Thesaurus" series for so long and finally decided to get on with it. I love photos that serve as a specific "thesaurus" with specific themes. I will be posting such photos every now and then. I think they're great and...
I've been meaning to establish...
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