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Let’s be honest, how many times have you had a Spanish or French assignment that you really did not want to put forth the effort for, and thus just did a quick Google Translate? I have admittedly done that, and have also noticed that sometimes what comes up as translated is not exactly what you…
When it comes to me ordering a drink from Starbucks, the menu might as well be written in Greek. Honestly, when people order, I always think to myself – “you want a tall, non-fat, no foam, whipped cream topped, caramel drizzled what?” – and the barista doesn’t even bat an eyelash. The other day, I…
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We don’t get the newspaper at my house, and for a while, I was quite jealous of all those people who got to read comics every morning with breakfast. Then, along came the internet… Some of my favourite online comics are: Dinosaur Comics These ones can be slightly geeky comics, but they’re still generally funny…