They encounter signs with unintentional and often comical mistakes, providing a humorous take on the challenges of language adaptation. Play 24. “Legends of English” In this video, the YouTuber Triggered Insaan explores various examples of “bad English.” The video features amusing and often ...
See more examples of Toponymy. Nominative Determinism Nominative sounds like Latin grammar, but in this context nominative just means name. The underpinning concept is that Asian parents apply expectation theory to choosing their child’s name, as a result, their offspring are pre-determining to get...
While this German word doesn't have a simple literal translation, it describes an attempt at improving a bad or hopeless situation, but this attempt only makes things worse. 4. Fernweh Fernweh describes the feeling of wanting to be somewhere else. Fernweh is not quite homesickness, but more...
Thinking of a string as an array we can access its first character via [0]:"false"[0]; // -> 'f'The rest is obvious, but the i is tricky. The i in fail is grabbed by generating the string 'falseundefined' and grabbing the element on index ['10'].More examples:...
Every translator, linguist, language lover and grammar nazi has been there. Wherever we travel, our eyes are checking everything around us for grammar and translation mistakes. The following mistranslations are some of the most ‘famous’ ones, they can be found in many webpages online. I won...
You probably remember some of these classic tongue twisters from those days as a child, riding in the backseat of a car with your friends or siblings and pushing each other to say each three times fast. These examples bring back fun memories, just like sharingholiday punsduring festive family...
‘There’s a way of transferring funds that is even faster than electronic banking. It’s called marriage.’ James Holt McGavran ‘I’ve had bad luck with both my wives. The first one left me and the second one didn’t.’ Patrick Murray Two secrets to keep your marriage brimming 1)....
👀 Examples[] is equal ![]Array is equal not array:[] == ![]; // -> true💡 Explanation:The abstract equality operator converts both sides to numbers to compare them, and both sides become the number 0 for different reasons. Arrays are truthy, so on the right, the opposite of ...
Top it off with an Oscar-worthy ballad about Dracula’s cursed love life and some hardwon self-respect and you have a romantic comedy that deserves to be considered alongside the very greatest examples of the genre. —DE 11. “Bringing Up Baby” (Howard Hawks, 1938) “Meet-cute” has ...
It's true — exercising humor while also tweeting as a responsible business is often a fine line to walk. But as these examples show, it's possible to be both self-deprecating and funny on social media, as long as it aligns with your brand. As the examples show, it's possible to cr...