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If music be the food of love
If music be the food of love

Gotta love Shakespeare: origin of idioms

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:February 13, 2023

An idiom as colour to language. If music be the food of love was coined by Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. Here we discuss usage

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Read more about the article How a rabbit shows us that AI is way off

How a rabbit shows us that AI is way off

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:March 18, 2020

The other day when I tried to help my friend set up her blog, a bunny thing happened. She wants her blog to be about faith-based principles from a Jewish…

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Read more about the article Three key notes to persuasive copy

Three key notes to persuasive copy

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:March 22, 2018

Slapping down anything that comes to mind may work for the Earnest Hemingways of the world, but its unlikely to produce persuasive copy for your website. Even Hemingway was not…

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How words are formed

  • Post author:Iza Grek
  • Post published:October 11, 2016

The English language owes much to many. From the outset it borrowed from Germanic, French, Latin and Dutch influences, to name just a few. Overtime the language has seen words…

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