Category Archives: Language
Should I teach English in Taiwan? Taiwan to downsize 10,000 university teachers by 2023
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Should I teach English in Taiwan?
Useful words which don’t exist in English
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Useful words which don’t exist in English
- tsundoku (Japanese)
- — buying a book and never reading it, possibly leaving it in a stack of other unread books
- friolero (Spanish)
- — a person who is especially sensitive to the cold
- aware (Japanese)
- — the bittersweetness which occurs during a moment of brief, transcendent beauty
- age-otori (Japanese)
- — to look worse after a haircut
- won (Korean)
- — the reluctance of a person to relinquish an illusion
- prozvonit (Czech)
- — to a phone a person’s cell phone only once so that they will call back (saving the originator the cost of the phone call)
H/t: Ace of Spades HQ
Norse contributions to the English language
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Phatic expressions
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In linguistics, a phatic expression /ˈfætɨk/ is one whose only function is to perform a social task, as opposed to conveying information.
Note-taking by hand superior to note-taking by computer
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The Oxford Comma
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“My boss, Max Boot, and I find your argument unpersuasive. Do two or three people find it unpersuasive?”
—James Taranto, arguing with a letter-writer against the use of the Oxford comma
English Mania
Jay Walker on English learning: