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Top 100 Language Blogs

Aug 9th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: Featured Article, Language Blog Toplist

Here at lexiophiles we love all our fellow bloggers. Some are really good and others are just fantastic! Here is our list of the Top 100 language and education blogs currently on the web. Read about how and why we made this list here.

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The English Blog:

Blog covering both old and new Internet resources for learners [...]



Where do you want to eat: John’s or Lou’s?

Aug 4th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

In Europe English as a Foreign Language (ESL) students for obvious reasons are taught British, or the Queen’s (formerly the King’s), English. Some schools will prepare young people for their first visit to the wonderful land of Freedom Fries, unnaturally sized Apples and home to countless of the world’s smallest and largest everything, but that [...]



Top 100 Language Blogs Button

Jul 31st, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: Language Blog Toplist

The responses to our Top 100 Language Blogs have been overwhelmingly positive. We are very pleased that the list has gone over so well with all the bloggers we looked at. Even more fantastic is that other readers and followers and what-nots are finding it to be the great resource we hoped it would turn [...]



Erwähnen Sie bloß nicht den Krieg!

Jul 29th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: Deutsch

Die Deutschen haben Probleme damit, den englischen Humor zu verstehen. Zugegeben, die Deutschen sind nicht die einzigen, die damit Probleme haben.
Die Franzosen, Spanier, Schweden, Polen, Schweizer, Österreicher, Finnen und die Pinguine in der Antarktis stehen anscheinend auch alle am Spielfeldrand und begreifen nichts. Englischer Humor ist wie Kricket. Er läuft unabhängig von allem einfach weiter [...]



Don’t Mention the War!

Jul 29th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

Germans have real problems understanding British humor. Okay, so the Germans are not the only ones who don’t get it.
The French, Spanish, Swedish, Polish, Swiss, Austrian, Finnish, American, Chinese and the penguins in Antarctica also seem to be standing on the sidelines with no idea of what’s going on. British humor is like cricket. It [...]



Titta pappa, människor!

Jul 28th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: Svenska

Svenska är ett fantastiskt srpåk med många små egenheter som gör det väldigt roligt både att tala och lära sig språket. Svenskan ger oss möjligheten att skratta oss till döds åt de små grammatiska och freudianska snedsteg som dyker upp i vardagen. Ett ställe där man hittar riktigt mycket sådant är på tjuvlyssnat.se. Det bästa [...]



Lookit daddy, peoples!

Jul 28th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

Swedish is a fantastic language with lots of little quirks and nuances which makes it fun both to speak and learn the language. Swedish also gives the opportunity to laugh one’s self to death over the multitude of grammatical and Freudian slips made on a constant basis. A place you can visit to read hundreds, [...]



I wish I was a punk rocker were correct

Jul 27th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

There seems to be some confusion on whether its “I wish I was” or “I wish I were”. Personally, I don’t understand the fact that there is confusion, but that’s probably just me. There are a large number of grammar nuts out there who stand by the claim that language and grammar rules are written [...]



It’s a bird, it’s a plane… it’s the subway?

Jul 24th, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

I recently came across a written account of something overheard on the New York subway.
A little girl and her mother are sitting on the subway when the daughter says, “Look mummy, a train” as a subway train passes in the opposite direction. The mother then promptly says, “No honey that’s not a train, that’s [...]



One Moose Many…

Jul 22nd, 2008 | By Christopher | Category: English

I recently ended up having a discussion on plurals, the absence of singular and plural form for certain words, and the general oddities of having more than one, or not being able to have only one, of something.
It all started with the absurd question what the plural of “everything” was. That’s right, what if you [...]