By Jon Kelly BBC News Magazine, Washington Congressman Mark Sanford has returned to frontline politics after ensuring “hiking the Appalachian Trail” became a euphemism for infidelity. What other scandals have enriched the lexicon? 1. “Hiking the Appalachian Trail” When South Carolina Governor Mark Sanford disappeared for six days in 2009, his aides told reporters he…

It’s Friday again, so here for your entertainment is another Funny Video Friday submission!

Welcome to our third installment of Funny Video Friday (who would have thought it would have lasted this long?) Today we have a pretty funny commercial for Berlitz language courses. As always, don’t forget to check out our previous videos.  

It’s Friday kids!  So that means it’s time for our Funny Video Friday installment. This week features a clip of Simon Pegg and the Big Train comedy sketch team from BBC Comedy. (View our other week’s submission here).  

Original Source: The Standard, Hong Kong A few days ago newspapers carried a rather strange case of a theft being reported. The matter involved two people who knew each other and one of them alleged that the other had stolen something of his. The matter ended with the two protagonists settling the…

I thought I would introduce a new tradition to this site called Funny Video Friday, which showcases a funny clip from a movie, tv show, commercial, etc. featuring language. To start this off, I’m including a clip from the classic British television show, Fawlty Towers. If you have suggestions for future videos, please feel free…

Source by Sara Malm, Daily Mail Swedish furniture giant IKEA has been left red-faced after the name of one of their products was translated into something less than appropriate. A customer put the name of $44.99 pillow Gosa Raps into Google Translate which interpreted it as ‘Cuddle Rape’. The translation of Raps, the Swedish word…

Yes, language can be a pretty remarkable yet funny thing sometimes.  For every rule of grammar, there is always an exception.  Which makes you think, ‘Are we just making it up as we go along?’ Well, of course we are! Language is a man-made invention, and as we all know from experience, man is far…

We’ve all used phrases like, “It’s raining cats and dogs” or “They threw the book at him!” (in my case, this was used literally in my 7th grade English class thanks to my teacher’s unconventional methods to make me stop talking), but did you ever wonder how these phrases came to be part of our…

When movies get released in other countries, oftentimes the titles get translated into something completely different from their original name. I did a post awhile ago regarding some humorous translation examples.  You can read that post here. Today I’d like to play a game…           Instead of giving you the name…