There are rumors that Donald Trump's campaign staff is feeling stressed — longtime ally of Paul Manafort, Trump's campaign manager: "Manafort not challenging Trump anymore. Mailing it in. Staff suicidal." — John Harwood (@JohnJHarwood) August 3, 2016
One of the shows in the upcoming Edinburgh Festival Fringe, by the three-man Australian musical comedy ensemble The Axis of Awesome, is called "Won't Ever Not Stop Giving Up."
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Christina Xu has written "A Field Guide to China's Most Indispensible Meme" (Motherboard, 8/1/16). Her essay includes more than a dozen illustrations, the first of which is this one:
On reddit, under the title "German gift card makers have a precarious grasp of the English language":
The other day I stumbled on a corner of British television previously unknown to me: The Jeremy Kyle Show. We have similar things in the U.S., like Jerry Springer, but Jeremy Kyle seems to have stumbled on a viral idea that our counterparts haven't yet discovered, namely the entertainment value of confessions and arguments in […]
Maintaining the theme of civility in this year's political campaigning, "Billionaire Mark Cuban rips Trump", CNN 7/31/2016: Your browser does not support the audio element. You know what we call a person like that, you know, the screamers, the yellers, the people who try to intimidate you? You know what we call a person like […]
A concert entitled "Sounds of Eurasia", held in a church, by a youth orchestra I'd never heard of from somewhere in the -stans region of Central Asia, admission being free and unticketed. It didn't sound too great. But I saw a flyer for it at local shopping center on Saturday, and the event was scheduled […]
A few linguistic and interactional clues to Donald Trump's motivations, in his politically disastrous back-and-forth with Ghazala and Khizr Khan, can perhaps be found in some examples of his use of the word vicious: I was viciously attacked by Mr. Khan at the Democratic Convention. Am I not allowed to respond? Hillary voted for the Iraq […]
Amber Lynn (known as "Amberella") is a Philadelphia street artist whose repertoire includes versions of candy-valentine-heart messages pasted on walls around the city. For the recent political convention, her message was this:
If you think about it, "home made" is pronounced the same way as "homade" would be if it was a word: And maybe "homade" *is* a word?
Taylor Swift sings "shake, shake", but in Singapore and Malaysia, everybody is saying "shiok, shiok". Source: "Where or how did the phrase Shiok or Syiok used in Malaysia & Singapore originate?" (Quora, Feb. 2015)
Rachel Premack, "Watch: This orangutan is uprooting what we previously knew about language", Washington Post 7/28/2016: At first glance, this video of an orangutan imitating a trainer’s grunts may not seem incredibly significant. But primate researchers say Rocky, the 11-year-old orangutan in the video, could fundamentally alter how we think about spoken language. “We don’t […]