Arabic: The language of confusion?
If an Arab says he’ll kill you, don’t worry – he wants to buy you dinner. Whether Arabic dialects are a single language is political, not linguistic.
Read MoreThat joke isn’t funny any more
What passes as a good joke in the office or at a party nowadays? Not much, it seems, unless you’ve got your smart phone programmed to prompt you with context-aware gags, or to pop up with the latest ‘funny’ video showing some guy catching laptops between his butt cheeks.
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