A SparkWords is something you read and you’re immediately "sparked" with emotion. It could be a variety of emotions, but you immediately feel something inside of you.

The SparkWords site allows you to jump into the topics of interest for you. Share your thoughts and be challenged by the thoughts of others related to these words and phrases.

It might be a particular word or controversial phrase that gets you fired up while you’re reading a blog, skimming a story, reviewing a product, or crawling the social web.

Whether you’re into sports, politics, business, celeb gossip or anything else, SparkWords let you ignite, jump into, or follow debates and discussions on topics that matter to you.

I like the idea, but I think they need to expand the functionality and ease with which you can jump into the conversation. I think they should be using twitter and you can be alerted via the micro-blogging tool when one of your SparkWords is shared online. I also think tools to let you quickly add your own SparkWords to the conversation through a toolbar or right-click contextual menu.

It’s still in beta so I’m sure the features and development will continue.

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Read through this little blurb and see if you have any problems continuing to read as the changes are made in the “language” as suggested.

The International Language Commission has just announced an agreement whereby English will be the official language of the European Union rather than German, which was the other possibility.

As part of the negotiations, the British Government conceded that English spelling had some room for improvement and has accepted a 5-year phase-in plan that would become known as ‘Euro-English’.

In the first year, ’s’ will replace the soft ‘c’. Sertainly, this will make the sivil servants jump with joy. The hard ‘c’ will be dropped in favour of ‘k’. This should klear up konfusion, and keyboards kan have one less letter. There will be growing publik enthusiasm in the sekond year when the troublesome ‘ph’ will be replaced with ‘f’. This will make words like fotograf 20% shorter.

In the 3rd year, publik akseptanse of the new spelling kan be expekted to reach the stage where! more komplikated changes are possible.

Governments will enkourage the removal of double letters which have always ben a deterent to akurate speling.

Also, al wil agre that the horibl mes of the silent ‘e’ in the languag is disgrasful and it should go away.

By the 4th yer people wil be reseptiv to steps such as replasing ‘th’ with ‘z’ and ‘w’ with ‘v’.

During ze fifz yer, ze unesesary ‘o’ kan be dropd from vords kontaining ‘ou’ and after ziz fifz yer, ve vil hav a reil sensibl riten styl.

Zer vil be no mor trubl or difikultis and evrivun vil find it ezi tu understand ech oza. Ze drem of a united urop vil finali kum tru.

Und efter ze fifz yer, ve vil al be speking German like zey vunted in ze forst plas.

If zis mad you smil, pleas pas on to oza pepl.

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Don’t you hate it when you look or sound stupid, ignorant or uneducated? Maybe you don’t even realize you’re doing it.

One of the things that I notice frequently among those immediately around me is when people mispronounced or misuse words or grammar.

The YourDictionary.com site has an article titled "100 Most Often Mispronounced Words and Phrases in English". I’m sure out of 100 there are probably a couple I’ve messed up at least once. How will you do?

I found this site thanks to Nikki Katz Stumbling it earlier and me seeing it. Great find!

Make sure you’re not looking stupid, go uncover some frequently mispronounced words and phrases in the English language.

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Okay, it’s not technically caught on “Film” but “…Caught in Pixels” didn’t quite sound right even though it’s probably more accurate.

Regardless, the point of the Wordsplosion site is to highlight a variety of grammar, well, let’s just say what they say, it can’t be said much better or succinctly.

Wordsplosion brings you the best of the worst of the world of
grammatical errors, punctuation gaffes, misspellings, typography etc.
We call this family of textual catastrophes “wordsplosions.”

If you’ve caught some of these types of accidents yourself, you can e-mail them and share with the world too. Just send the image to images@wordsplosion.com

I’m not sure what emotion is more fitting, the humor of the mistake itself or being appalled at the lack of basic English and writing skills used by “educated” individuals.

Mark Jaquith and his wife are the folks behind Wordsplosion. I’ve become familiar with Mark through b5media and he’s a blast to be around. I don’t think I realized that he was such the self-proclaimed “grammar-Nazi” though. Wordsplosion isn’t the only interesting site that Mark has come up with. I worked with him on www.wasoverheard.com during SXSW 2008. Can’t believe I haven’t featured it yet.

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A friend of mine that spent the majority of her formative years growing up as an American in Japan just uncovered this site for me.

It reminds me of some of the funny pictures you see on the icanhascheezburger lolcats website, but all of this humor circles around language instead of animals.

Surfing through the site reminds me of some of the great comments that were made in some of my communication classes in college. One of my favorite professors was Korean and he just cracked me up with how he would say some words.

It was almost funnier when he knew he was saying it funny, and still played off of it with the students.

Go uncover some language humor yourself at www.engrish.com

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