Dec 30, 2009 · Where cult films go, academics follow. A new book collects essays on “The Big Lebowski” and its beatific slacker, the Dude.

A rhyme is a repetition of similar sounds (or the same sound) in two or more words, most often in the final syllables of lines in poems and songs. The word rhyme is also a pars pro toto (“a part (taken) for the whole”) that means a short poem, such as a rhyming couplet or other brief rhyming poem such as nursery rhymes

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The Backwards Я trope as used in popular culture. In a lot of Western posters, you see something that could be called “Faux Cyrillic” — replacing …

The core idea of Poe’s Law is that a parody of something extreme can be mistaken for the real thing, and if a real thing sounds extreme enough, it can be …

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Thanks for your comment on Ball Four-actually I had never really doubted that Bouton had written the book, but I’ve heard the allegation that he hadn’t so often that I …

Extensive reading, free reading, book flood, or reading for pleasure is a way of language learning, including foreign language learning, through large amounts of reading. As well as facilitating acquisition and learning of vocabulary, it is believed to increase motivation through positive affective benefits.