3 Ways to Be Funnier Using Language
Everyone wants to have a healthy sense of humor. Here are three tips for using language to be funnier and improve your comedic sensibilities.
Everyone wants to have a healthy sense of humor. Here are three tips for using language to be funnier and improve your comedic sensibilities.
Abbott and Costello’s timeless “Who’s on First” sketch relied on a surprising number of humorous homophones. Here’s how many homophones we found.
Great writers inspire us and teach us to think broadly. We’ve collected writer quotes about authorship, language, and design.
Resolve to give your pen the power and attention it deserves this year. Here are 10 New Year’s resolutions for writers.
These 25 Christmas trivia questions separate the party-goers from the true merry-makers. Here’s a ton of fun Christmas trivia for kids from 1 to 92.
You don’t have to look very far to find some real quirks in the English language. Here are fifteen of our favorite English language peculiarities.
Our final installment of The Language of Star Wars is here, and we’ve suggested that one character’s speaking style may actually hold a major plot clue when The Force Awakens.
We’re continuing our series exploring the language of Star Wars and how linguistics contributed to the films’ success. What can this week’s Star Wars characters teach us about The Force Awakens?
The Star Wars fanosphere is abuzz with anticipation for Episode VII: The Force Awakens. Will the iconic language styles of trilogies past be reflected in the new films?
What’s up with the expression, “I wouldn’t know him from Adam’s house cat”? Where in the world did that saying come from? Robert Hendrickson explains it in The Facts on File Dictionary of American Regionalisms. He writes: The Southern expression “I wouldn’t know him from Adam’s house cat” is an attempt to improve upon “I …