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The 10 Most Endangered Languages In The World
Most people worldwide take for granted the major languages spoken in their classrooms and places of business. For every verbal juggernaut such as English or Spanish, there exists plenty more whose...
View ArticleHow To Break The Code In Body Language
This is a neat video that goes into detail about what body language and gestures really are saying about how individuals feel. Please follow Misc. on Twitter and Facebook.Join the conversation about...
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Translation Services Are A Must For Millennial-Driven Businesses
537 million people use the Web in English. 445 million use it in Chinese. Yet the vast majority of users, 985 million people1, navigate the Web in other languages. “Although every website is global...
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"Panegyric," "Immiscible," "Churlish," And 47 Other Words NYT.com Readers...
Panegyric ("a eulogistic oration or writing") appeared once on NYTimes.com between January 1, 2011 and July 14, 2011. Readers looked up the definition 528 times, making it the word looked up the most...
View ArticleWhat Does Your Use Of The Word "I" Say About You?
It indicates status: "People across the board think that Obama uses the word 'I' at incredibly high rates, but if you do an analysis he uses the word 'I' at lower rates than any modern president, by a...
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The Weirdest And Most Shocking Chinese Slang That You'll Find On The Internet
A look at the uniqueness of Chinese internet slang is a look at the uniqueness of Chinese itself. Take, for example, the word 囧 (pronounced "jiŏng"). Originally it had a few meanings such as...
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Here's A Great Spanish Phrase To Use Anytime Someone's Making A Lot Of Noise...
From Bloomberg TV and Mike Shea from Direct Access Partners, here's a good phrase to say to your Spanish business colleagues. Shea used it in reference to Bernanke's big speech on Wednesday. The...
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French Feminists Want To Leave "Mademoiselle" In The Past
Few words say “French” more than “mademoiselle.” The French title for a young or unmarried woman trips off the tongue like accordion music by the Seine. But feminists have tried to shelve it for 40...
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Ralph Fiennes Thinks Twitter Is Killing The English Language And Making...
English actor Ralph Fiennes — famous for "Schindler's List" and his role as Voldemort in the "Harry Potter" films — believes Twitter is contributing to the demise of the English language, The...
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Guess What The Most Commonly Used Word In English-Language Media Was This Year
Occupy. Yes, thanks to the Global Occupy protests, the occupation of Iraq and the Occupied Palestinian Territories, "occupy" is the most used word in media over the last year both online and in print....
View ArticleI Don't Understand What Anyone In The Internet Business Is Saying Anymore
I'd say that in about half of my business conversations, I have almost no idea what other people are saying to me. The language of internet business models has made the problem even worse. When I was...
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11 Groundbreaking Inventions Of 2011
There are countless inventions throughout the year, but only a few have the capacity to change the world. From a sassy digital personal assistant to a mirror of the future, here are our picks for the...
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These 5 Professions Have The Most Overused, Meaningless And Annoying Business...
This post originally appeared at The Street. This story may be a mission-critical solution for your enterprise needs. Whatever that means ... Nearly every profession has its own jargon, those words...
View ArticleThe Spanish Government Paid For These Ridiculous Sexy Videos To Promote The...
An organization in the Basque region of Spain has come out with a series of racy videos to promote Euskara (or Euskera), the Basque language, El Pais reports. Adding to the PR disaster, it has also...
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How To Speak American: The City and Town Names That We Have Butchered
Hey foreign languages are hard ok? Just ask Mitt Romney or Newt Gingrich. But they're not the only ones. Americans, in general, have a hard time with languages. All those accents, characters, and...
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The Reason So Many Business Deals Go Wrong In China
Poor communication and language barriers are costing companies a lot of money, yet executives aren't doing enough about it. According to a new report by the Economist Intelligence Unit — a business...
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Here's How To Make Google Beatbox (GOOG)
It might be an old trick, but we just learned on Geekosystem that you can make Google Translate beatbox for you. Here's how to do it: 1. Go to Google Translate. 2. Paste the following text to be...
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This Adorable American Girl Is Teaching A Billion Chinese People How To Say...
Jessica Beinecke is a 25-year-old recent college grad living in Washington, D.C—and the biggest English language star in China. Every weekday, Beinecke sets up her laptop and begins to film her online...
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There Are Some Words That Just Don't Translate Into English
There's no word for some experiences in English, but that doesn't mean we don't relate to them. A YouTube video goes through 10 words in other languages we don't have an expression for. Our favorite?...
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MAP: Soda Vs. Pop Vs. Coke
The classic "soda" vs. "pop" vs. "coke" debate has long drawn invisible borders across the United States. The geographic variation inspired Edwin Chen, a data scientist at Twitter, to use information...
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