Language Archive

  • If it bothers you, it bothers me too

    Tweet What am I talking about? SPELLING IN THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE. I was raised with British spelling. Colour, not color. Cheques, not checks. Neighbour, not neighbor. …and so on. It’s not something I can change because I’d have to mentally stop myself from adding “u”s […]

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  • Ranting: Is it different coming from a man or a woman?

    Tweet Methinks so. A ex-reader who wrote in a comment and told me that even though I warned everyone I would be ranting in a post, he was to become an ex-reader because one of my former rants from almost 2 years ago or more […]

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  • When a non-English speaker challenges your language :P

    Tweet This is one of our classic Me & BF moments that always makes me laugh when I  look at a cake: BF: I’m going to go cake now. Me: You can’t use “cake” as a verb. BF: Why not? Me: Because you BAKE a […]

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  • Ne jamais ecraser le buste vers l’assiette

    Tweet Translation: Never put your bust on your plate. Found a marvelous blog called Shelley’s House from a new commenter (Hi Shelley!) that led me to this link on her blog post about Parisian politeness written by BBC UK. (See everyone? Commenting works!! 🙂 How […]

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  • Languages, prices and the ups and downs

    Tweet Well-Heeled talked about this recently with paying a tutor to help her brush up on her Mandarin. For me, I am taking a different tack, and the tack has a name: FREE. No paid tutor (BF is free and willing to help me learn […]

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