or a too-literal translation. But the pun was so obvious — ken as slang for “fuck” is common parlance for anyone under 30 in France — many began to suspect the poster’s NSFW message was ...

Actually, literal meanings are frequently wrong, and often confusing. A recent example is the “naked wife” virus that spread rapidly through cyberspace a few months ago. The Department of ...

The student said the posters were a “protest of racially ... when we mix up the cultural meanings of things for the literal meanings. The French philosopher Roland Barthes said “myths ...

Delhi-based Illustrator Danish Ahmed has created a series of movie posters that get graphically literal with titles, often going in wildly different directions than the actual content. Let’s ...

The definition of literally is no longer the literal definition of literally. Gizmodo has discovered Google’s definition for literally includes this: “Used to acknowledge that something is not ...

The first teaser poster for Game of Thrones Season 7 was released by HBO at SXSW. The image, courtesy of Entertainment Weekly, doesn't feature any characters or recognizable settings from the show.

literal meanings behind the states and cities we know today. “The inspiration was my interest in etymology and my profession as a cartographer,” Hormes tells Co.Design. “I started to ...

When we’re being figurative, we say “it was a million miles away”, meaning “I walked for hours.” When we’re being literal, a million miles away is somewhere between the moon and Mars.