Your Vocabulary Score: A
Congratulations on your multifarious vocabulary!
You must be quite an erudite person.
How’s Your Vocabulary?
栽在第12题手里，没拿到A+，可惜。
Bonus video: “Weird Al” Yankovic - White & Nerdy
摘自Charles Berlitz的Native Tongues一书：
In a UN discussion of the Organic Act introduced in Tanganyika prior to independence, the English-to-Russian translator, the daughter of émigré parents, fluent in Russian but educated outside of Russia, translated the law as Organicheskiy Akt - literally a correct translation but a phrase that in modern Russian also means “sexual intercourse.” Perhaps […]
Prepare to laugh yourself silly: The top 10 unintentionally worst company URLs
1. A site called ‘Who Represents‘ where you can find the name of the agent that represents a celebrity. Their domain name… wait for it… is
www.whorepresents.com
2. Experts Exchange, a knowledge base where programmers can exchange advice and views at
www.expertsexchange.com
3. Looking for a pen? Look […]
Popwatch是Entertainment Weekly杂志的blog，我常去的地方。除了讨论流行文化，那里的文章还常常涉及到语言类的内容，笔调非常幽默，每每看来都让我有找到知音的感觉。最近讨论明星名字拼写的这篇又让我乐了一把。
I’ll get the ball rolling with my selection, Scarlett Johansson, whose tricky arrangement of consonants (two Ts! two Ss!) and vowels (sen? son?) sends me scrambling to IMDb to fact-check myself every time.
这个情况跟我实在太吻合了！ Scarlett Johansson的名字我总也拼不对。要么前面少t，要么后面多h、少s，见鬼了。按说她的名字看起来也并不特别难，真是奇怪。
让我比较头疼的明星名字还有：
Adewale Akinnuoye-Agbaje （既不会拼也不会读，彻底lost！）
Alanis Morissette （她的姓跟Mississippi有一拼！）
Arnold Schwarzenegger （不作弊，你曾经拼对过吗？）
Maggie/Jake Gyllenhaal （为什么不是Gylenhall呢？）
Mary Lynn Rajskub （哪怕背诵24遍，记不住就是记不住）
Matthew McConaughey （听说最近刚跟Penelope Cruz分手）
发觉这些明星的名大多以A或M打头。巧合？
BTW，地球人都知道Brad Pitt和Angelina Jolie的孩子终于出生了的消息吧？（这孩子名叫Shiloh Nouvel，也够难拼的。）几乎是同时，Jennifer Aniston和Vince Vaughn的新片The […]
哈，终于有人总结出American Idol评委们说话的规律了。原来他们个个都是诗人，而且是极其搞笑的那种。忍不住要转载一下：
‘Idol’: The poetic words of Paula Abdul
Ode to Chris Daughtry
You showed versatility
And you still stayed true to who you are
What a concept!
A Man Named Bucky Covington
Again, you and Kellie
Probably shined most tonight
This is your element
Wear that hat proud
Mandisa, Mandisa!
You could sing the phone book
You can sing the encyclopedia
You can sing anything
Your voice is amazing
The […]
生活中充满了各种各样奇妙的巧合，有时不由得我们不会心一笑。
上个星期三的Lost播出之后，好几个朋友带着激动的口吻通知我，“有一句台词是he’s the real deal噢！”
星期天的Desperate Housewives播出之后，又有好几个朋友通过各种渠道通知我，“哇，这集里出现了the birds and the bees，你刚刚讲过的！”
一个星期之内连续两次，两个又正好是当前最热门的美国剧集，这个巧合我喜欢。
还有更绝妙的巧合呢。就是这一集Desperate Housewives（以下内容有剧情透露，不喜者请止步），Lynette和Mrs. McCluskey讨论如何向七岁的小孩讲解the birds and the bees，Mrs. McCluskey说大人应该告诉小孩性是很“肮脏”的东西，让他们觉得讨论性很丢人，这样他们就不会没完没了地问下去了。她的原话是：
I’m telling you, it works. It keeps people in their place. It keeps parents from being humiliated, and it keeps me from having to spend the afternoon talking about my woowoo.
巧在哪里？就是这个woowoo了，女性的“那个”部位。这种俚语叫法我前两天才刚刚知道。怎么学会的？请看：
Ten Things That Look Like A Penis (SFW)
Ten Things That […]