There’s this guy I know who says, “it’s all good.”

Is it?

Vsauce asks “Why are Bad Words Bad?” And John Astin wins a cussing contest.

My mission in life:  To get everyone I meet to say “frog” in Persian.

What happens when you’re looking for a word, and you can’t find it?

ِYou’ve got the power!  As well as free will.  And choice.  Take your pick.

Thank you so much for what you just did!
You shouldn’t have!
It’s not worthy of you.
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Some tips from Shakespeare to navigate the tension between “proper language use” and anarchy.  Leveraging Persian “affixal” qualities to make up new words.

The goal of literacy is subconscious word recognition.  If, while you read, you can recognize words as a whole without having to analyze them, you’ve achieved literacy! How can we make this happen?

Some Iranian terms (a.k.a. slurs) for dual nationality.

“Tu Quoque” (pronounced too ko kay) means “you also” in Latin.

Persian word order is different from English in two ways.  First, the modifier comes before the word it modifies (“shoes red”).  Second, the sentences follow a Subject, Object, Verb (SOV) order.  “Sara shoes wore.”

You say potato, I say sibzamini.

In which we coin a new word to bring together a mythic tale and community organizing.