How hard is it to learn Spanish?
When you look at the scale of all languages around the world, learning Spanish is about as difficult as learning French, Italian, or Portuguese.
Surprisingly, a few other languages were also considered at the same level — Afrikaans, Norwegian, Swedish, and Dutch included.
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What do you consider to be “life”?
Everybody seems to have their own opinion of when life starts, and are generally accepting of the same definition of when life ends, but that’s not really the question that Web Watch is asking here.
Regardless of when you believe life begins, there’s still the fundamental question remaining of what “life” actually is for you.
We can pretty much all agree that inanimate objects, such as an iPhone – even with Siri – do not represent “life” at all.
So what is life?
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The other day, Web Watch was chatting with a friend when she said that she “often” does stuff.
But she didn’t say “off-en”, she said “off-ten”. In other words, she pronounced the “T” in “often”.
It’s understandable. It’s a common mistake. It’s certainly wrong, but she didn’t know. She always that that she was pronouncing it perfectly. Now she’s totally embarassed, wondering what else she had been saying that she has been pronouncing wrong all these years.
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How many letters are there in the English alphabet?
According to Rick Aschmann, there may be just the standard 5 vowels that everybody knows (a, e, i, o u), but when it comes to pronouncing those same letters, there are at least 16 different vowel sounds that people use around the country.
Everybody swears.
Everybody may not use the same expletives when doing so, but everyone swears in some manner or other.
And a recent study published in the American Journal of Pain confirms exactly why people swear.
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The recent announcement from Mattel concerning CHANGING THE SCRABBLE RULESET TO ALLOW FOR PROPER NAMES AND OTHER BLASPHEMY is really not that big a deal.
First, some perspective. How exactly is the game being modified?
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All you need to do is learn some new 2- and 3-letter words.
In what appears to be a bad case of timing from their reporters, The Wall Street Journal finally reported this week of a dramatic change in the world of Scrabble that took place in October 2005:
THE ADDITION OF NEW WORDS TO THE SCRABBLE DICTIONARY.
Words such as “ZA”, “QI”, and “ZZZ” were added recently, according to the WSJ. Apparently, “recently” means “in the past 4-5 years” to them.
Regardless, here at Web Watch we believe in making sure that you are not sucked into the same vortex of bad Scrabble-playing that the WSJ would lead you down if you had to wait a few years to discover that there had been a Scrabble dictionary update. So here are the list of handy two- and three- letter words that you should have at the ready the next time you need to impress your Scrabble-playing friends…along with the unexpected WSJ followup:
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