2013-04-12, 00:01 | Link #343 |
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Fact: There are english words which are their own antonyms.
I thought this might be a novel contribution, here's a list of some: https://simple.wikipedia.org/wiki/Contronym |
2013-04-29, 21:59 | Link #346 |
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21 Mind-Blowing Facts That Will Put a Smile On Your Face:
http://www.cracked.com/photoplasty_5...r-face_p21/#21 |
2013-06-13, 01:17 | Link #353 |
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5 Beloved Celebrities Who Were Nothing Like You Think:
"When famous people transcend famous-peoplehood and become icons, their personalities will often be reduced to one defining characteristic: Abraham Lincoln was as honest as he was tall, Mahatma Gandhi was as peaceful as he was short, etc. But famous people are still, you know, people. We understand that even the most beloved cultural icons are allowed to have flaws, but in some cases, their real personalities actually contradicted the one thing they're now famous for. For example ..." See: http://www.cracked.com/article_20469...you-think.html |
2013-07-13, 07:40 | Link #357 |
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Consisting of a whopping 84 strokes, the kanji taito is arguably among the hardest Japanese words to write. Most kanji have fewer than 30 strokes.
Taito means "the appearance of a dragon in flight". It was apparently used as a surname and, according to a 2002 newspaper article from Kumamoto, somebody was reportedly using it as his or her family name as recently as the 1960s. No one is known to possess this surname today. Now, as I said, while it is arguably among the hardest Japanese kanji to write, taito is not necessarily the most complex. That's because the word is formed by two kanji — "cloud" ( 雲 ) and "dragon" ( 龍 ) — written three times each. Some would say that's cheating (the equivalent Chinese word, da2 龘 , comprises just three "dragon" 龍 radicals). For a more comprehensive look at monstrously complex kanji, check out Crazy kanji: What's the highest stroke count? (Oct 22, 2009). According to the author, this would qualify more appropriately as the kanji with the most unique strokes. It's apparently an older, and now obsolete, version of sei 性 , which means gender, human nature, or sex. Japanese students are probably sighing in relief that they don't have to write something that complicated for something so basic to day-to-day life. |
2013-07-18, 13:50 | Link #359 | |
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And that is discounting the people living in the Commonwealth states like Canada, Australia, New Zealand, etc. Still want to take over the British Monarchy now?
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