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Have You Ever Mixed Up These Misunderstood Emoji?
We've rounded up some emoji that often suffer from cases of mistaken identity. Emoji have official names and are typically designed with a certain image, idea, or emotion in mind.
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Ways To Laugh Online That Are More Amusing Than LOL
There are all sorts of ways to show when we're in stitches on social and in text messages, these are some creative offshoots of LOL.
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Terms That Twitter And YouTube Created
These sites have transformed the internet—and our lives as we know them, including our language. So, get internet-savvy with these words and expressions born from our new, digital normal.
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Righto, It’s British Slang, Mate!
The British and the Americans: two people, as it's said, separated by a common language. Here's a list of some slang terms from the United Kingdom.
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Words To Help Explain Relationships In The 2010s
Internet tech has transformed not only how we date and relate from courtship of olden times, but how we talk about it as well.
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When “Mixed” Isn’t Enough
Why We Need Better Terms For People Who Identify As Two Or More Races by Nicole Holliday When I was a kid, I always just assumed that everyone in the world called people like me “mixed,” because in the 1990s in central Ohio, where I grew up, mixed almost always referred to folks like me, who had one black parent and one white parent. The …
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French-Inspired Slang That Makes English Sound Très Chic
We've gathered some French-inspired expressions and slang words that will have you saying ooh-la-la because everyone wants to speak a foreign language, right? Especially one that sounds so enticing.
