Category Archives: Education

New Words for the Modern Age

June 14, 2010 – 10:55 pm

This year Webster Dictionary has allowed a new series of modern slang to be entered into the lexicon of the English language. Most people I know ie English speakers are light years ahead of the educational tome in their ugly venacular depravity, but here are some words which might make it into the revision for […]

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Bad Math

October 3, 2009 – 12:52 pm

Math is a difficult field of study. Most Americans fail to comprehend anything beyond multiplication and division. Algebra is a foreign language and calculus terra incognita. If it weren’t for calculators most people in the world couldn’t count numbers higher than their fingers and even taking off their shoes wouldn’t put them much further than […]

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Thai Word for View

September 13, 2009 – 9:32 am

The Thai word for view is ‘vu’ and you thought no Thai words were the same as farang.

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My Country Of Where the Heck

May 13, 2009 – 10:48 pm

Russia is the country with the world’s largest land mass. Canada is second, but most American would be hard pressed to locate either on a map judging from a recent BBC interview asking Americans very simple questions like ‘name a country beginning with U’ or ‘how many sides to a triangle’. Granted the vignette was […]

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Wheelbarrow versus Wheelbarrel

March 3, 2009 – 2:57 pm

My landlord Vladmar comes from Pittsburgh. He attended Platt Institute for Art. His spelling is phonetically inspired and the other day he asked, “Is it wheelbarrow or wheelbarrel?” “Wheelbarrow, but you can say wheelbarrow, but if you’re trying to be funny say wheelburro.” Vladmar chuckled at my quip. Like me he possesses a simple sense […]

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