Showing posts with label English. Show all posts
Showing posts with label English. Show all posts

Thursday, 29 March 2012

Vsauce: English & Psychology



A particularly interesting episode of vsauce outlining some of the abnormalities of the English languages as well as weird facts including that "Buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo Buffalo buffalo" is a grammatically correct sentence (see the Wikipedia article for more info).

Sunday, 3 August 2008

Floccinaucinihilipilification


'Floccinaucinihilipilification' is real English word, and I think one you should know, since it refers to something you like to do (though I wish you wouldn't do it quite so often): "the act of describing something as worthless, or making something to be worthless by deprecation".