Bumfuck, Nowhere.
Interactive world map of
. For all your “tee hee hee” needs.Interactive world map of
. For all your “tee hee hee” needs.One student uses an extended cookie metaphor to contrast the writing she was tasked with in high school with what she’d experienced previously. High school has been a series of repetitive tasks, “I have (for the most part) only written one essay–introduction, three body paragraphs, and conclusion. I would clearly state my thesis, structure my evidence into three neat little pieces, and wrap everything up in five sentences rambling about how extremely significant my point was to the world.”
To this student, “My writing as well as my experiences with high school english in general ended up dry and flavorless, like a grocery store sugar cookie that sat on the shelf for too long. Sure, it’s beautifully shaped and frosted, but it usually doesn’t taste that great. It’s the type of cookie you only buy for its appearance.”
In contrast, in middle school, where the student was given more freedom to explore, “I enjoyed writing a lot more; rather than focusing on making a cookie look good, I could focus on making a cookie taste good. They were homemade, and cookies that are homemade tend to contain a part of the person who made them. Despite being rather misshapen and ugly compared to the store cookies, they at least tasted, if not good, how I wanted them to taste. I could write in a way that was meaningful to me, and as a result, I felt as though I improved and grew as a writer.”
John Warner on how to
.Hahaha English is such a garbage language…
The letter everyone can read… and less than a third of people can identify in its correct form.
It’s official: by popular demand, “because” can now be used as a preposition.
I find the whole “what English sounds like to people who don’t speak English” thing fascinating.
Also: catchy song!
Fascinating archive of (English) accent samples. Basically a bunch of people, with a variety of different native languages, reading out the same English paragraph.
Hex colors made from words in English, including such highlights as #FAECE5
, #F0E71D
, #1D1075
, and #71D1E5
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Did you know that the longest word in the English language has 189,819 letters? Did you read that and think, “Yeah, but I bet it’s a chemical name so that hardly counts?”
You smartass you. Have 52 more useless facts to nitpick.