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Funny English mistakes can happen to anyone, no matter how fluent they are. From minor grammar slips to hilariously wrong word choices, these blunders can sometimes lead to confusion—or even unintentional offense. But more often than not, they’re just downright funny. Some of these mistakes are so absurd, it’s hard to believe they weren’t made […]

Email fails, the bane of our digital lives! We’ve all been there, hitting send on an email and then realizing we made a typo or sent it to the wrong person. It’s like playing a game of digital roulette, will your email land in the inbox of the person you intended or will it end

Texting is probably the number one means people use to communicate nowadays. The convenience of hiding behind a keyboard opens up so much room to communicate what you want clearly and shamelessly. However, reducing an interaction to just symbols clearly has its drawbacks and can be tricky sometimes. So often, things get out of control

Every once in a while we highlight some interesting ways in which different languages say something that other cultures share. This time around, we want t o highlight something that’s around, aka, Christmas. Precisely, how different languages say “Merry Christmas”. We figured it would be best to show you these differences on a map. We

Do you know what is funnier than the jokes themselves? People missing the joke and trying to correct their authors. Priceless! Our ability to tell jokes to entertain and amuse is probably one of the great wonders of our intelligence. One trait that people find really agreeable in one’s character is their sense of humor,

Words have clear boundaries, when written we know when a word ends and and when the other starts by placing little spaces between words. But when they mush together, especially in spoken writing, we rely entirely on our intuition and context to figure out the boundaries between words. I scream and Ice cream will sound

As of today, the world has 7164 languages, according to Ethnologue. A staggering third of these languages are endangered and only spoken by very few people, 1000 speakers at best. What’s even more serious is that more than 50% of the world’s population is covered by 23 major languages.

Scientific papers are often interesting, but they are rarely funny. And scientists are usually portrayed as dry nerds with no sense of humor. But this is not always the case, scientists can be very funny and their sense of humor is very witty. To show you how funny scientists can be, here are some humor-filled

More often than not, we feel the urge to make our language as blunt as possible so it falls just the way we want it on the ears of the person we are addressing. We want our message not just to be undersatood, but also carries all the emotions of the given context without the