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As a native of Pandora, I can assure you that Na’vi isn’t all that hard to learn. Any language is learnable. It just takes dedication. Look at me. I learned English after my trip to Earth in a matter of weeks. Fluently within months. And now? Well now I’m the greatest extraterrestrial blogger on Earth. I jest, of course. Arianna Huffington is a much better blogger than I. Though in my defense, she’s had a lot more time to learn... Continue reading

A pack of brilliant Turkish pranksters decided to use Facebook’s use of crowd-sourced linguistics for their own benefit. A group of clever hackers congregated on the Inci Sözlük message board and launched a full-scale attack on the Turkish branch of Facebook’s language translation interface, which relies on crowd-sourcing to improve the lingustics of the non-English Facebook translated pages. Hilarity ensued. The word “Like” for example was substituted for another word that rhymes with Luck but begins with an F. The... Continue reading

Grammar nerds don’t need no Indian sex guide. They learned everything they need to know about a great sex life from studying their own English language. The Comma Sutra features some hot punctuation-on-punctuation action. No exclamation points allowed. I don’t know about you but I’m totally in support of same-punctuation marriage. Just because a comma loves another comma doesn’t make it less of a punctuation mark. I don’t care what the Elements of Style might say. Comma love is not... Continue reading

Are you proud of your internet vernacular? Whoever is responsible for this “advertisement,” you have me SMH. While it might be totally SFW, FWIW, this seems like a mighty waste of time. Take that English language! Link [via]

While the Amazon Kindle 2 is a fresh take on an e-book reader with its ability to read back books to you, some people who have a visual impairment could use something they can feel rather than hear. That’s the idea behind this concept braille e-book reader. Bumps change on a dynamic surface that can emulate braille, thus bringing a whole new world of reading to the blind. Link