Long and short scales - Wikiwand
wikiwand.com/en/Long_and_short_scalesExplains difference between million/billion in English and million/milliard/trillion… in French and Spanish
Communicating globally — their English isn’t your English. — Source Institute — Medium
medium.com/source-institute/writing-in-a-way-that-most-english-speakers-in-the-world-can-understand-is-hard-46e331d8a5fdWill long and complex words make you look smarter? Meet the people who think that short words will make us dumb
Telescopic Text
telescopictext.org/An extension of telescopictext.com, providing tools for writing expanding narratives, and a collection of texts
Why Computer Programmers Should Stop Calling Themselves Engineers - The Atlantic
theatlantic.com/technology/archive/2015/11/programmers-should-not-call-themselves-engineers/414271/Greenwashing , or "green sheen,"[1][2] is a form of spin in which green PR or green marketing is deceptively used to promote the perception that an organization's products, aims or policies are environmentally friendly.[3] Evidence that an organization is greenwashing often comes from pointing out the spending differences: when significantly more money or time has been spent advertising being "green" , than is actually spent on environmentally sound practices.[4] Greenwashing efforts...
The curious case of the disappearing Polish Ś — Medium Engineering
medium.com/medium-eng/the-curious-case-of-disappearing-polish-s-fa398313d4dfOne keyboard bug three decades in the making
Polari, the gay dialect, can be heard in this great short film “Putting on the Dish.”
slate.com/blogs/outward/2015/07/28/polari_the_gay_dialect_can_be_heard_in_this_great_short_film_putting_on.htmlOf all the cultural forms that gay men have created and elaborated since coalescing into a social group around the late 19th century, Polari, a full-fledged gay English dialect with roots among circus folk, sailors, and prostitutes, has to be one of the most fascinating—not least since it has faded...