See, the fallacy here is that you must have “a good chunk of time” in which to write.Thefactis that “a good chunk of time” (one free of interruption, obligation, or sudden change of circumstance, in which one “sits down” and focuses on the work at hand) does not exist. GABAL...
Farley made audiences laugh, but there were still a lot of people out there who wanted to write him off as nothing more than a plump guy who fell down a lot. Farley himself wondered if he would ever be able to break into serious parts. He was signed on to do a biopic of Fatty Arb...
In one part of the documentary, Capaldi recalls grabbing beers withEd Sheeranand chatting about impostor syndrome. A little while later, the singer received an email from Sheeran’s close friendElton John, who wrote a kind note of encourageme...
Shirley was born to well-off Jamaican parents in Pensacola, Fla., and grew up in "close-knit family surroundings," Kappeyne said. His father was an Episcopal pastor with his own church. His mother, a teacher, took on a central role in Shirley’s development as a musician but died when...
Overeager spell checking is especially concerning for English dialects that are endangered, like Jamaican Creole. According to Hinrichs, 90 percent of Jamaicans grow up speaking it, but don’t know how to write it. Thanks to autocorrect on smartphones and computers, many attempts to write Creole...
But when she moved to Queens, New York with her family at age 12 so that her mother could take a teaching job, Mai shied away from the attention that came with being the “new kid” at school, where she was the only student with an English accent. “I didn’t want people to ...
‘Papa, I’m really not worried about them, I’m worried about you sniping me down, because I was the driver.’” (Speaking in a thick Sicilian accent, Colombo’s mother denied the family were in the Mafia but confirmed they are related to the late Joseph Colombo, former boss of the...
English is the official language of the island nation of Jamaica. However, in addition to English, many Jamaicans also speak Jamaican Patois or Creole as an informal way of communicating. This language has its own rules of pronunciation...