… to think that English – or any language – could hold enough expression to convey the entirety of the human experience is as arrogant of an assumption as it is naive.
Here are a few examples of instances where other languages have found the right word and English simply falls speechless.
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Lexiophiles, a project by the Hamburg-based language portal bab.la, has compiled a list of the Top 100 Language Blogs in 2010 based on over 20,000 reader votes and recommendations. A few translation blogs made it into the list, which can be found here.
Cute drawing, but poor grammar. Wishes, imaginary or hypothetical thoughts are expressed with the subjunctive mood, which couples singular subjects with verbs we otherwise regard as plural.
In this case, what the French bulldog on the left really means is:
I wish I were beautiful.
Here are some other examples of the subjunctive mood:
The library requested that she return the book.
The subjunctive is used here because a wish is being expressed.
If he were healthy, he would run the marathon.
Here the subjunctive is used because a desire is expressed which does not reflect the actual condition or state of the subject.
Drawing by Mischief Champion (via jenna)
Tags: grammar
The ICANN has rolled out the first non-Latin TLDs and the Egyptian Ministry of Communications and Information Technology, previously online at <http://www.mcit.gov.eg>, was apparently the first to go online with its new Arabic URL:
And if that’s rendering as gibberish in your browser, well, then you might want to consider an update.
