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English is one of, if not the hardest foreign language to learn. There’s so many little things about it that are as though we’ve made them up as a sick joke.
The solution? According to one guy, do what we’ve always done: crib some notes from other languages.
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CONTENT WARNING: Sex, BDSM, questioning authority.
Part I – Dave Gorman: or, How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Look Closer;
Part II – David Graeber: A quick(ish) rundown of the moral injury of working in a bullshit job on someone else’s clock;
Part III – The Amstrads: Use your foe’s advertising against them;
Part IV – The T-shirt: What to do when the custom T-shirt website won’t let you mention the boss…
YOU CAN’T SAY “ORANGE” TO YOUR BOSS.
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