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Posted in humor, language, naked link on Jun 3rd, 2008

Magnetic LOLspeak. Yes, since growing attached to I can has Cheezburger, words such as “walrus” and “monorail” have become sources of easy amusement.

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… to really insult someone in a multi-cultural world

Posted in language on May 30th, 2008

This selection of nine choice instruments of verbal warfare are sure to come in useful.

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Just say “NO” to automatic translation

Posted in humor, language on May 15th, 2008

Haven’t seen anything this bad in a long time.

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Quentin Tarantino meets Shakespeare

Posted in language, movies on Apr 19th, 2008

In the long series of implausible “what if”-sentences:
what if Pulp Fiction had been written by William Shakespeare.
Kevin Pease gives us a teaser, from the very beginning of the film:

ACT I SCENE 2. A road, morning. Enter a carriage, with JULES and VINCENT, murderers.
J: And know’st thou what the French name cottage pie?
V: Say […]

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SINGHIOZZEREBBE, once more with feeling

Posted in games, language on Apr 6th, 2008

The only 2000+ point word in Scrabble continues to pull in visitors.
Found out the definition for singhiozzerebbe at the very source, the discussion board for the Scrabulous-game in facebook.
What does it mean, then?
Simply: “She/He would hiccup”. Quite efficient, packing all that into a single word. And […]

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Explanations this good are hard to come by

Posted in books, humor, language on Feb 26th, 2008

Saw an odd tagline for a new book recently:

PIHLAJANORSU - Ilmiö, jonka nähtyään on syytä viettää päihteetön loppuelämä.

Didn’t think much of it, apart from being reduced close to hysterics in public places several times while puzzling over the nearly flawless composition of the sentence.
Certainly didn’t think that such a creature (rowan […]

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