by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

Martin Luther King, Jr.

“DARKNESS CANNOT DRIVE DARKNESS, ONLY LIGHT CAN DO THAT HATA CANNOT DRIVE OUT HATE, ONLY LOVE CAN DO THAT” – Martin Luther King, Jr. Martin Luther King, Jr. (January 15, 1929 – April 4, 1968) was an American pastor, activist, humanitarian, and leader in the African-American Civil Rights Movement. He is best known for his role in the advancement… Read More

by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

New Study Shows Brain Benefits Of Bilingualism

by BARBARA J. KING The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported a robust result. Bilingual patients suffer dementia onset an average of 4.5 years later than those who speak only a single language. While knowledge… Read More

by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

Auto-antonym: words that are their own antonyms

An auto-antonym (sometimes spelled autantonym), or contronym (also spelled contranym), is a word with a homograph (another word of the same spelling) that is also an antonym (a word with the opposite meaning). Variant names include antagonym, Janus word (afterthe Roman god), enantiodrome, self-antonym, antilogy, addad (Arabic, singular didd). It is a word with multiple meanings, one of which is defined as the reverse of one of its other meanings. This phenomenon is also… Read More

by BIRD GEI | Consultoria e Gestão de Idiomas

25 Of The Worst Food Name Fails Ever

Some of these are translation fails – we can only hope that that Chinese food company isn’t selling shredded children. Others, like the British faggots in sauce, seem funny only because modern slang has re-appropriated their names. Some, like the Australian Gaytime ice cream, have even embraced their now-humorous names.