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"Black Books, the sitcom that I did was translated in Sweden and they translated it to something else. So I said, what do they call it in Sweden? They went, The Crazy Shop! Crazy shop, crazy things happen! Guys come in, sometimes he don’t buy book!"
— Bill Bailey (via godiseven & neonloneliness) (via travors)
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"Do not put statements in the negative form. And don’t start sentences with a conjunction. If you reread your work, you will find on rereading that a great deal of repetition can be avoided by rereading and editing. Never use a long word when a diminutive one will do. Unqualified superlatives are the worst of all. De-accession euphemisms. If any word is improper at the end of a sentence, a linking verb is. Avoid trendy locutions that sound flaky. Last, but not least, avoid cliches like the plague."
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William Safire, Great Rules of Writing (via wordpainting & conorh).
I will sheepishly admit it took me two reads to work out what was going on here.
(via travors)
Love it.
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Brazilians play a joke on the planet, and wins. Judging from the Wiki detail, they went above and beyond to keep the ball rolling. Hysterical!
Well played Brazil!
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Funny Geordie Monologue by Gary Hogg (via Amblethwaite)
The speech accent archive made me remember my very short stay in Newcastle-Upon-Tyne many years ago. I was there for a sports trip and we stayed with school families.
We were there three days and for the first day and a half all I remember doing was apologising and asking my host family to please repeat themselves slowly.
I was (relatively) fine by the third day, but when I spoke to my family on the phone my sister insisted I was sporting a Geordie accent.
By golly they were fun though.
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Fascinating, and as the comments note, a bit flawed. I’d send in a recording but they wouldn’t use it because my accent’s a mess.
Holy crap this is awesome (even if it is flawed). There goes the rest of my evening…
Here’s a direct link to the speech accent archive. I wish they had a random button.
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How hip is your lingo? (via BuzzFeed)
I had to urban dictionary quite a bit of this. :/ But I love academic or educational texts.
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The OED claimed that siphons move liquids from one container to another using “the force of atmospheric pressure”. Actually it is the force of gravity that moves the liquid
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A stamp for all emotions - The Emoticon Stamp (via Gizmodo Australia)
Obviously, a Japanese product.
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