The follow-up to an earlier post with fifteen wonderful words with no English, the plainly titled fourteen more words with no English equivalent has been posted at Mental Floss. Personal favourites from this list include: Shemomedjamo (Georgian) You know when you’re really full, but your meal is just so delicious, you can’t stop eating it? …
Is it ironic that this was posted on Crossway Publishing’s blog and I’m cross posting it on my blog? Is it furtherly ironic that the post in itself is an adaption of material from Tony Reinke’s book Lit! The content is, in my experience, true. Fragmented Browsing vs. Sustained Comprehension The Internet is designed to …
From the Writing English blog here are twenty-five analogies that make up for their failure in form by being funny. Some examples: He spoke with the wisdom that can only come from experience, like a guy who went blind because he looked at a solar eclipse without one of those boxes with a pinhole in …
The other day we were tormenting a poor teenager with the expressions ‘As happy as Larry’ and ‘As happy as a pig in muck.’ I think he was wondering if the pig’s name was ‘Larry’, or if all the old people had just lost it. (On a digression, there is a man in Mount Gambier …
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