Foblish
n.— «Your english hasn’t gone downhill, you’ve just learned to speak some fabulous foblish!» —“[Janelle in Japan IV] End of JSP” by kw0n in Japan descend from grace Dec. 18, 2003. (source: Double-Tongued Dictionary)
Further reading
National Book Award winner Barry Lopez had wise advice for young writers. First, read widely and follow your curiosity. Second, travel or learn a foreign language. And third, find out what you truly believe, because if you’re not writing from...
Many of us struggled with the Old English poem “Beowulf” in high school. But what if you could actually hear “Beowulf” in the English of today? There’s a new translation by Maria Dahvana Headley that uses contemporary...