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100 Fantastic Blogs for Language Lovers
Offbeat  (tags: Language, Vocabulary, Linguistics, Education, Students, Blogs )

Sophie
- 13 days ago - onlineaccrediteddegrees.org
Check out these 100 fantastic blogs for language lovers who enjoy vocabulary, grammar, linguistics, and much more. They are written by professors, students, and language lovers alike.
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Not It and That and What -- She and He and Who and Whom
Offbeat  (tags: humans, animals, language, respect, living others, expressions )

Simone
- 26 days ago - animalrights.change.org
Language matters. Words matter. And I say that not just because I personally work with words for a living. I say it because it's true. The vast majority of us grow up thinking of nonhuman animals -- or, at the very least, certain categories of nonhuman
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Using Effective Language in Campaigns for Animals
Offbeat  (tags: campaigns, marketing, helping animals, language, animals )

Simone
- 43 days ago - all-creatures.org
We recently launched a multi-million dollar marketing campaign to drive people to low-cost spay and neuter services for pets in Louisiana and Mississippi. We wanted to determine what messages would work, and we based our advertising campaign around those
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100 Open Courses to Learn Any New Language
Offbeat  (tags: Language, Translation, Linguistics, Culture, Resources )

Katie
- 55 days ago - onlineuniversities.com
Learning a new language can be a great way to challenge your mind, and meet people from different cultures. Here are 100 resources that will help you become multilingual in your choice of languages.
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50 IPhone Apps to Help You Learn a New Language
Offbeat  (tags: iPhone Apps, Learning, Education, Language, Study )

Jollygirl
- 267 days ago - onlinecollegedegree.org
Whether you want to learn just enough to get by while visiting another country or you want to delve more deeply into a language to become a proficient speaker, you will find these iPhone apps helpful to learn your language of interest.
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Kabbalah - Episode 1 - Basic Overview
Offbeat  (tags: language, Abraham, Kabbalah, EGO, steps, animal needs, wealth, power, control, esoteric, spiritual enlightenment, instruction, knowledge, ascend, sage, wisdom )

Gregory
- 542 days ago - video.google.com
This is episode one of a series of lessons designed to provide an explanation of Kabbalah and how its knowledge can assist those who have that desire to attain ascension back to the Creator.
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BBC NEWS | Au Revoir Mister Franglais
Offbeat  (tags: franglais, miles kington, odd, language, foreign, tongue, english, britain, uk, U.S., France, hybrid )

Cissy
- 695 days ago - news.bbc.co.uk
The British are notoriously bad at learning foreign tongues. But with Franglais, the late Miles Kington showed anyone could get by on holiday with just a petit peu of effort. If there is one foreign language that English speakers always seem to crack
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It's Almost English When Dictionary Does Australish
Offbeat  (tags: funny, entertainment, culture, language )

Julia
- 719 days ago - reuters.com
CANBERRA (Reuters) - Contemplating a New Year tattoo in that fashionable area above the buttocks? To help you along, Australians have given them a not-so-fashionable name: "arse antlers." Want a suntan as well? You could have "tanorexia."
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Lingo for 2007 | A Nonebrity With Nice Heavage
Offbeat  (tags: lino, language, heavage, new words, 2007, odd, funny, strange, mouse potato )

Cissy
- 731 days ago - thesun.co.uk
EVER got to the front of a supermarket queue only to have a swipeout? Maybe you're more of a mouse potato who shops online or perhaps you're never far from the stores because you're wed to a WOOF.
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The Latest in Tracking New Words and Phrases
Offbeat  (tags: off-beat, language )

Kenneth
- 747 days ago - languagemonitor.com
'Hybrid' is Top Word, 'Climate Change' is Top Phrase, and 'Gore' is Top Name atop the Global Language Monitor's annual global survey of the English language. The Top Smiley is ?-) for ''pirate'. The most understood word on the planet is the word OK. And..
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"W00t" Crowned Word of Year By U.S. Dictionary
Offbeat  (tags: w00t, word, dictionary, expression, joy, gamers, american, language )

Jean
- 747 days ago - reuters.com
"w00t," an expression of joy coined by online gamers, was crowned word of the year on Tues by publisher of a leading US dictionary. Merriam-Webster Inc said "w00t"--typically spelled with two zeros--reflects new direction in American language.
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Everyday Slang's Irish Roots
Offbeat  (tags: Irish, Gaelic, slang, eytmology, language )

RC
- 780 days ago - nytimes.com
Learn one man's theory of how much of our slang is derived from Gaelic expressions brought to America by the early Irish immigrants.
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