British actors and regional accents

Sunday, 30 November 2008, 13:39 | Category : Crumbs, Film, Literature, Books & Language
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Here’s an article from Variety that I quite liked :)

Swansea council has problems translating a road sign into Welsh…

Saturday, 1 November 2008, 0:03 | Category : Crumbs, Literature, Books & Language
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See the error here.

The quirks of being involved in IT

Wednesday, 29 October 2008, 11:04 | Category : Computer Stuff, Crumbs, Life & Stuff, Literature, Books & Language
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Something me and a friend at school are catching ourselves out on more and more regularly is how computerized our every day language has become. For example quite recently I asked my friend how on Earth she’s managing to do so many things at once (work, school, another school, friends etc.) and she started explaining [...]

Eskimo words for snow

Sunday, 26 October 2008, 1:12 | Category : Crumbs, Literature, Books & Language
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See here.