In an era dominated by digital communication, the art of sending physical letters seems almost forgotten. Are you still keeping this tradition alive? Whether it’s a handwritten note or a carefully chosen greeting card, the impact of receiving a letter can be profound. Here are some interesting anecdotes about letters that might inspire you to … Continue reading The Lost Art of Letter Writing: 10 Interesting Facts
Cherokee writing system
The Cherokee writing system, one of the only examples in history of an official script being invented from scratch by a member of a non-literate group, was created by a man named Sequoyah. Within just 25 years of its creation, nearly 100% of the Cherokee population was literate, and the script served as inspiration for […]
Handwriting in schools
The introduction of the Common Core State Standards in 2010 led to many schools removing handwriting instruction, including cursive writing, from their curriculum as it was no longer a requirement for students to be proficient in it.
People Share Their Favorite Movie Quotes Of All-Time
We all have our favorite lines of dialogue memorized.
Great dialogue is the heart of film, tv and theatre.
How many films can you quote?
Do you have a film quote for your tombstone?
Mine is from the movie ‘Clue.’ I’m gonna make you guess…
So Redditor No_Housing_4819 wanted to hear what lines no one has forgotten from their favorite films…
They asked:
“What’s your favorite movie quote?”
Let’s talk cinema…
Unforgiven
“Sir, you are a cowardly son of a *itch! You just shot an unarmed man!”
“He should’ve armed himself if he’s gonna decorate his saloon with my friend!” ~ Axenroth187
“You’d be William Munny, outta Missouri. Killer of women and children.”
“That’s right. I’ve killed women and children. Killed just about everything that walks or crawled at one time or another.”
“And I’m here to kill you li’l Bill. For what you did to Ned.” ~ jrf_1973
“I like:”
“ t’s a hell of a thing, killin’ a man. You take all he’s got… and all he’s ever gonna have.”
“Well, I guess they had it comin’”
“We all have it comin’, Kid.” ~ bolerobell
Doctor Strangelove
“Gentlemen you can’t fight in here, this is the war room!” ~ AlternativeRip4728
“When I did speech and debate in college those of us who qualified for the national championship took a retreat to a cabin in the mountains for a weekend to work on our craft.”
“My head coach brought this movie along and oh man, what a great film. I highly encourage people to watch this film. Peter Sellers is brilliant.” ~ Pawn_captures_Queen
“I can no longer sit back and allow Communist infiltration, Communist indoctrination, Communist subversion and the international Communist conspiracy to sap and impurify all of our precious bodily fluids.” ~ _stuntnuts_
LEGO FOREVER
“I think I got it. But just in case… tell me the whole thing again I wasn’t listening.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
“And Octan, they make great stuff! […] Surveillance systems, all history books, voting machines… wait a second.” ~ StarKnight697
“The fact that I’m seeing so many memorized quotes from the lego movie is making me so happy right now.”
“I was 12 when it was released and I’m gonna be 20 in two months. I miss those days. I’m getting so nostalgic now.” ~ WTFrickFrackCadillac
INCREDIBLE!!
“He starts monologuing! He starts this prepared speech about how feeble I am to him, how my defeat is inevitable, and the world will soon be his, yada yada yada, he’s yammering!”
“I mean the guy has me on a platter, and he won’t shut up!” ~ Dazzling_Realties
“You sly dog! You got me monologuing!!” ~ burningfirelily
Villains
“A hero would sacrifice you for the world but a villain would sacrifice the world for you.” ~ I_Love_Small_Breasts
“If I remember correctly, Weathering with You.” ~ protein_bars
“His selfish desire to be with an ACTUAL GODDESS.”
“I love how complex and big but also intimate and sad the romance in this movie was.”
“He was a villain for sure, but also my heart was breaking for them the whole movie.”
“I wouldn’t have been any happier if he was a hero; everyone would have lost.” ~ WinsomeWombat
“They say the villain is selfish, but have anyone thought about this?”
“And what about the hero? What if they sacrifice you just for glory? What if they were the true villain to begin with?” ~ BasicallyBlu123
Arnold Speaks
“I need your clothes, your boots, and your motorcycle.” ~ 11B-1P-CIB
“Me and my brothers watched T2 almost every night for a month (we couldn’t sleep without tv on and each month was a new movie).”
“We’ve always said ‘ need your clothes, your boots, and your underwear.’”
“And you reminded me of what he actually says lol.” ~ stoicambience
“My friend quotes this all the time, but he remembers it wrong and just says ‘GIMME YA CLOTHES’ in a terrible Arnold accent lol!!” ~ NutSockMushroom
NETWORK
“I’m as mad as hell and I’m not going to take it anymore!” ~ UpperUnderstanding77
“One of the criticisms of Chayefsky’s screenplay was that it was too cynical and unrealistic. In hindsight it almost seems quaint.” ~ DaBake
“YOU HAVE MEDDLED WITH THE PRIMAL FORCES OF NATURE MR. BEALE, AND I WON’T HAVE IT!!!!” ~ Wagglebagga
When Comedy Mattered
“Who are you? And how’d you get in here?” “I’m the locksmith, and I’m a locksmith.” ~ parallel_jay
“We’re so sorry about your loss, Wilma. We would have come earlier, but your husband wasn’t dead then. -Police Squad”
“Also in the same vein…”
“Trust me, whatever scum did this to your husband, no man on the force will rest until he’s behind bars! Now let’s grab a bite to eat.”
“I wish they could make parodies like they did back then.”
“There seemed to be a legitimate love for the source material they were spoofing, maybe that’s the key ingredient to make them work?” ~ redfoot62
“My all-time favourite joke. I love it so much.”
“The wording, the delivery, the very existence of this joke are just utterly delicious to me.”
“It’s so clever in its language. I had to think twice when I first heard it, cracked up laughing, and still laugh at it.”
“I read a quote somewhere, I don’t remember where, that ‘the essence of humour is the unexpected’.”
“This joke just hits so perfectly.” ~ cmdrqfortescue
No Country for Old Men
“All the time you spend tryin’ to get back what’s been took from you there’s more goin’ out the door. After a while you just try and get a tourniquet on it.” ~ Cells_Interlinked_77
Blade Runner
“I’ve seen things you people wouldn’t believe.”
“Attack ships on fire off the shoulder of Orion. I watched C-beams glitter in the dark near the Tannhäuser Gate.”
“All those moments will be lost in time, like tears in rain. Time to die.” ~f**kitillbeanunicorn
Guardians
“When you’re ugly and someone loves you, you know they love you for who you are. Beautiful people never know who to trust.” ~ Future_Rooster_3909
“I guess it might seem weird for a comic book movie to dole out some big life lessons, but GotG 2 is chock full of that stuff.”
“Hell, the whole storyline with Peter, Yondu, and Ego is genuinely one of the most touching things I can remember seeing in a movie in a pretty long time.”
“‘He may have been your father, boy, but he wasn’t your daddy.’”
“As someone who grew up without a father, that line bored a hole straight through my soul.” ~ DextrosKnight
Movies are an essential part of life.
We often get lost in the political Hollywood nonsense of it all, but when we look deeper, we realize, film saves us.
Because when film is at its best, it reflects us.
Keep speaking those lines.
Putting spaces between written words…
Putting spaces between written words wasn’t a thing until the 7th Century and didn’t become popular in Europe for another few hundred years (Romanauthorsthoughtyoucouldjustfigureitoutfromcontext).
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Braille began as a military code…
Braille began as a military code called “night writing.” Developed by the French army (1819) – soldiers could communicate at night without speaking / using candles. Louis Braille learned the code & developed the more user-friendly, optimized version of the Braille alphabet we know today.
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15 Random Tweets Packed With Laughs
Hey, there!
It’s time for some posts! Some posts with the most!
The most what, you may ask? I don’t know, I may answer! Just stuff! Laughs! Words! Enjoyment!
Why, these posts have so much most in them that I don’t think my own intro could inject any more mostly most into them, so I’m gonna stop writing it now and just get to the posts.
Posts!
15. The food paradox
I doubt, therefore I am.
how can my spouse equally…
~not know where they want to eat
~know where they don't want to eat
~and, also, don't care where we eat
— An English Human (@English_Channel) October 28, 2020
14. Squatch and talk
One of the greats, Hedberg.
I think Bigfoot is blurry, that's the problem. It's not the photographer's fault. Bigfoot is blurry, and that's extra scary to me. There's a large, out-of-focus monster roaming the countryside. Run, he's fuzzy, get out of here. ~ Mitch Hedberg pic.twitter.com/NZkBViKj3A
— The What If? Podcast (@WhatIfPod) October 8, 2019
13. Read between the lines
Nothing we can do about it now, it’s in the cards.
[mysterious old lady flips tarot card revealing a dude who looks exactly like me flying a hot air balloon into power lines]
Me: is that good— cat pics & links to podcast/stream (@boring_as_heck) May 30, 2015
12. Stick with it
Repeat process for infinite stick. Stick win every time.
i found a really good stick. but i chewed it too hard. and it broke in half. which was disappointing until i realized. now i have two sticks. today has been. an emotional roller coaster
— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) January 3, 2019
11. Cat got your tongue?
This feels like the opposite of all the DARE program I had to take as a kid.
@ramtops RT @marginoferror: Don't fight a cat. Use your brain. Use drugs. (From a veterinary textbook) pic.twitter.com/Mznoznuj3O
— Alan Charlton (@agcstoat) January 13, 2019
10. Textbook case
Here’s hoping they don’t throw the book at him.
If he returned any of it, he'd get like 30 cents and a stick of gum. so I see his point.
— Drake's Accent Coach
(@risingdemise) February 13, 2017
9. Herbicide
Hey ScienceAlert, are you alright? Do you need to talk maybe?
Whoever wrote this sounds mad as hell at plants https://t.co/GUrdPdfqBt
— James Felton (@JimMFelton) June 26, 2019
8. Putting on a front
Even the horse looks like he’s losing his will to live.
Patron: So one of the horses will be drawn from the side and the other will be from the front.
Medieval artist: From the.. front?
Patron: Right. You know how to draw
horses from the front, right?Artist: Y-yeah, totally. pic.twitter.com/znNXldGKci
— Dorsa Amir (@DorsaAmir) November 2, 2020
7. What a wonderful phrase
It just clicked for me: Timon and Pumbaa aren’t just carefree sidekicks, they’re stone cold nihilists.
RT leakypod: simba: my uncle murdered my dad
pumbaa: sheesh lol
simba: then he blamed me for it
timon: yikes. have u tried just not fucken worrying about it lmao
— Complayment d'Objet (@ComplaymentdO) January 6, 2020
6. Have your cake and pan it too
This is me pretty much every night.
the human said. they might make pancakes in the morning. so the faster i fall asleep. the sooner i get a pancake. as you can imagine. it’s hard to snoozle. under so much pressure
— Thoughts of Dog® (@dog_feelings) August 11, 2018
5. Too expensive
I’m focused on “live” at this point, let’s not get ahead of ourselves.
live, laugh, AND love????? in this economy???? are you fucking insane.
— Isabel Steckel (@IsabelSteckel) April 10, 2020
4. My eyes are up here
No thank you please.
3. Tea for two
Yeah, I don’t know if I would advise that.
2. Going up?
There’s no knowing where we’re going.
1. True grit
These lyrics have played in my mind over and over again.
Man. Those sure are some posts with the most. So much so that I’m full.
Who are your favorite funny people to follow on the internet?
Tell us in the comments.
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A Hilarious Alexa Mishap Ruined a Book Club When It Played a Very Inappropriate Song
Many of us grew up watching things like Star Trek: The Next Generation, which portrayed a far off future world where people simply spoke to a computer and in return it answered questions in a human voice, or carried out commands.
Just a couple decades later and a lot of that tech is not only here, but actually affordable for many consumers. I really can set up a system in my home in which I can play any music or set the ambiance of the light around me, change the temperature of the room, activate security systems, communicate with anyone anywhere, and even query knowledge on any subject instantly with just my voice.
That is, when it’s all working right. The rest of the time, it’s less sci-fi utopia, and more chaotic hilarity.
Take this story via Tumblr for example…
Chapter 1: The Soundtrack
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 2: Until The Screaming Began
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Chapter 3: A Long List of Alphanumeric Gibberish
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 4: “That Digital Clock”
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 5: Lurking Silently
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 6: ALEXA!
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 7: Aa Greek Chorus of a Distraught Book Club
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 8: A Sort of T-Pose
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Chapter 9: Genuinely Incredible
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
Chapter 10: Comedic Misadventures
Source: Tricktster on Tumblr
I think that probably one day, in the not-too-distant future, all of this smart home tech will have advanced to the point that it’s a lot more intuitive and better at understanding general human intent rather than relying on specific commands.
Until that day comes, we have WAP disasters. And it’s glorious.
Have you had a smart home mishap?
Tell us in the comments.
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Tumblr Users Talk About What It’s Like to Be a Writer
Oh, the writing life.
I mean, I’m writing right now. Want proof? Look at this assemblage of words. If I wasn’t a real writer, would I know how to use a word like “assemblage” in a sentence?
Checkmate.
Well, that’s probably enough writing for today. I did good. I should reward myself with several snacks and a season or two of TV.
While I’m doing that, you should enjoy these Tumblr posts about what being a writer is like.
And then help me because oh God the deadlines are closing in.
15. Always give your characters credit
14. “I don’t like writing, I like HAVING WRITTEN.”
13. It’s already a tight 2,000 pages
12. When being your own boss actually sucks
11. If you’re not sweating, you’re not writing
10. True story: one time I was commissioned to write a play about animal sex… Google was concerned…
9. There are so many ways for writers to look like psychopaths
https://writeouswriter.tumblr.com/post/187006767058/writer-problems-my-outlining-notes-probably-look
8. Your name and date count
7. Why didn’t I burn that when I had the chance…
6. Try repeating it until it loses all meaning
5. Can’t I outsource this?
4. Sometimes writing blocks you, sometimes you block writing
3. Ok now that I say this out loud…
2. This is the best idea I’ve had in MINUTES!
1. Remember: nothing’s ever done, it’s just due
What are your tricks for combating writer’s block?
Seriously tell me in the comments, I need to know IMMEDIATELY.
Or don’t. I’m sure I’ll figure it out on my own eventually.
… help…
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Writing Is Very Hard: Stop Making These Common Grammatical Mistakes
Writing is very difficult.
I should know, and my editor knows I know [editor’s note: heeeeeyyyy]. Fortunately, I can count on him to gently correct my mistakes or shoot me a message saying, “Can you not use these words in those ways anymore? Thanks.”
Photo Credit: Pixabay
Recently, another editor with the patience of Job started a Twitter thread about some common grammatical mistakes.
Laura Helmuth is the health and science editor at The Washington Post, so she’s clearly seen some funky English in her time. Her list was not only fantastic, but many of her followers, grammar nerds in their own right, chimed in with other ways they see people butchering the English language.
I'm an editor, so a lot of what I do is cut or change words. These are some of the mistakes and misuses I see all the time & how to fix them. This thread is not to shame or subtweet anybody — I learned many of these mistakes by making them myself. Please add your own favorites!
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) August 4, 2019
Helmuth listed some good ones:
- “Enormity” means something really bad, not something really big.
- “Japanese/Brazilian/Finnish/Australian researchers discovered…” Science is the most international endeavor in human history. Any team that makes a discovery worth covering almost certainly includes people who aren’t citizens, so instead say: “Researchers in Japan/Brazil/etc.”
- “Men and women” in almost all circumstances should be “people.” The world is over-gendered enough as it is.
- “Famous” is a word you almost never need. If a person or event is known to your reader, you don’t need to tell them it’s famous. If your reader DOESN’T know something, calling it famous risks making your reader feel ignorant or unwelcome in your story. (One exception, as a follower pointed out, is to say someone was “famous in her time” if it’s someone who is relatively unknown now but was a big deal back in the day.)
- It’s spelled “impostor” rather than “imposter,” which I learned only after being quoted in a story about impostor syndrome.
- It’s fine to use “spawn” metaphorically in some cases, but keep in mind that it literally means fish or frogs ejaculating eggs or sperm. Think twice about “seminal,” too.
- Avoid “so and so believes” because you don’t know what they believe, only what they say.
She finished up with:
What are some of your favorite common mistakes or awkward bits of language? In science writing or any other type of writing. Thanks for sharing on a day when it helps to have a distraction.
— Laura Helmuth (@laurahelmuth) August 4, 2019
Other editors and writers added their own grammar pet peeves.
- Putting “The fact that” before something is never necessary.
- Just deserts. Yes, it sounds like desserts, but it’s spelled deserts as in deserves.
- Toward never needs an ‘s.’
- “In order to.” Just “to” does the same job.
- The use of “I” when the object pronoun “me” should be used. E.g. “He took Jean and I to the store.” The trick to knowing what’s right? Take out the other person in the sentence. “He took I to the store” just doesn’t sound right.
- Trying to eliminate “actually” from my vocabulary, mostly speaking vocabulary. Adds nothing.
- “And the reason why is…” is redundant. Just say, “and the reason is…”
- Unique means one of a kind, it is absolute and there are no degrees of uniqueness. Very unique, more unique, most unique etc., are all meaningless.
- I find the word “different” is often unnecessary—12 different people…
Many more goodies were mentioned – check out the thread for the rest. You will either feel smug or ignorant after reading it, but I bet either way you’ll learn something new.
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