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Lesson 166: Human Body and Idiomatic Expressions

There are numerous expressions that involve the human body that are quite common in Italian. Below is a list of common expressions that I learned in my last Italian lesson -- I've..

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Lesson 166: Human Body and Idiomatic Expressions

There are numerous expressions that involve the human body that are quite common in Italian. Below is a list of common expressions that I learned in my last Italian lesson -- I've..

http://www.ilgur.com

Do Bullies like Bullying?

Although Slate is my favorite magazine, and usually the first website I check each day, I've been known to complain about its science coverage, which typically lacks the insight of..

http://coglanglab.blogspot.com/

fat-crappy-tastic

adj. Under the fat and the crap, there could be a compliment. Or an insult. Or a typo. Or a frightened rabbit, looking for a home.Real citation: "09.21.08 - This is the day I turne..

http://wordlust.blogspot.com/

insight

2 / 4Originally uploaded by SophieMucI'm in a sticky as regards my language variation and change essay assignment. I need to write between 3,000 and 4,000 words on any one of the f..

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NaNoWriMo - Day 19

After work I headed to my first ever live NaNoWriMo meet-up… no one was there. That’s a bummer, because it was the first meet-up that’s ever fit in my schedule. S..

http://thescrawl.com/

It’s partly Greek to me

Celia Webb has followed up her article ‘Improving Vocabulary through Latin Prefixes‘ over at the ELT Times with ‘It was Greek to Me: Improving Your English by Kno..

http://eltworld.net/blog

How to Translate a Proverb

Literal word-for-word translation does not work for popular sayings such as proverbs. To properly translate a proverb requires several steps, and it often requires a translator t..

http://www.altalang.com/beyond-words

Gloria in excelsior wood shavings

Susan Kappel raised an interesting question today: Why is the motto of the state of New York “wood-shavings”? The point is, the motto and only word in Latin on the Grea..

http://www.alphadictionary.com/blog

Life lists

I decided to do something I saw on Janet's blog. If you want to play along just copy this and then bold the things you've done.I HAVE….1. Started my own blog2. Slept under the st..

http://www.plainlanguage.com/blog

I'm back! (of course with a piece on the evolution of language)

After a long and excruciating period of having no proper access to the internet I am finally back online. It seems as if I missed quite a lot of interesting things while I was a..

http://sharedsymbolicstorage.blogspot.com/

Irony and Satire (109)

Irony and Satire: Barbara Shepherd and Dave Shepherd try to avoid speaking sarcastically to each other as they explore irony and satire.This week’s topic was suggested by Ab..

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Kilpatrick is on a Which Hunt

It seems that James Kilpatrick, whom I must confess a near life-time disdain for, has declared that the award for November's (who knew months had this?) award for the ugliest word ..

http://thelanguageguy.blogspot.com/

Why do they call it ??(??)?

The above picture shows the colorfully painted eaves of a traditional Korean building. Koreans call this type of decoration ??(??), which literally means "red & blue." ..

http://koreanlanguagenotes.blogspot.com/

Since I have some free time.

I was going to make this a really short post.Then I changed my mind.Twice...

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Help with Diagramming Sentences

I've long harbored the idea of including complicated sentence diagrams on One Step Forward, but I've come to accept that I have neither the space nor the graphics skills to make th..

http://legbamel.blogspot.com/

Huge Growth in Chinese Classes

Classes in Chinese Grow as the Language Rides a Wave of Popularity from the NY Times. Good article about the huge growth seen in Learning Chinese in the US and how 50,000 studen..

http://www.childbook.com/v/blog/default.htm

MY CONTINUING CRUSADE

IF NOTHING ELSE, BE CONSISTENTCheck the following photo caption for errors. Identify and correct them all. "FEWER WORKERS: With Chrysler Financial moving most of its employees to ..

http://michaelsenglishusage.blogspot.com/

Dialect disputes: Street signs in Germany

This article from the Tageszeitung in Berlin highlights an unusual language dispute. In Germany, many street names and a fair amount of public signage is done, to one extent or oth..

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