A fellow blogger who also used to work in Germany tagged me this week as a Kreativ Blogger Award winner because I reignited her passion for travel - yay for that, and thanks! (Just for the record, yes, the fact that whoever dreamt up this award in the first place was so creative with the spelling …
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The day I doubted there were seven continents …
When Pam Mandel recently wrote about having visited all seven continents, a commenter reminded me that lots of people don't believe there are actually seven continents to visit. This was something I learned loud and clear when I was teaching English to multicultural classes, but it sure surprised me …
Point or comma and general language confusion
Today in the files of "ain't different cultures confusing", I'd like to discuss the curious case of the decimal point. It took me nearly 30 years to discover that not everybody uses "." for a decimal point. And I'll bet there's at least one person reading this blog post who has just heard this for …