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Today is April Fool’s day, correlating with The Fool in the Tarot, or The Joker in playing cards, and The Fool may also be acting as The Trickster. The exact origins of April Fool's Day as a British and European tradition are not known. This date may been associated with pranksters since the...

The video explains the concept of stress-timed and syllable-timed languages. Something I had never heard of. What he calls "content words" are stressed, while "grammar words" are not. It seems one of the tricks to space out the stressed words in order to get the proper rhythm is by using the...

If the English language made any sense, lackadaisical would have something to do with a shortage of flowers. Doug Larson

Hello everyone, Despite not being from the US or any English-speaking country, my career started out with writing in English. I used to post to Reddit's short scary stories sub, and some of my work was picked up by an Asian publisher, gaining quite a bit of mileage. So I kind of built from...