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It's a long read time!

We have found a captivating issue on Quora for you: What's the difference between terrible and horrible?
Here is a combination of two answers:

Terrible and horrible both are adjectives but, they have totally different meanings.
Terrible :- 1. extremely bad or serious.
For e.g:"a terrible crime"
2. causing or likely to cause terror; sinister.
For e.g: "terrible face"

Horrible :- 1. causing or likely to cause horror; shocking
For e.g: "horrible murder"
2. very unpleasant

Moreover, one of the several definitions of terrible is not only quite different from horrible but also unknown to most folks. Terrible also means intense or extreme, as in a terrible beauty. In this it resembles awful, a word that once meant awe-inspiring.
We were thinking about a photo for the long read... Well, if Hilary&Trump don't count, then here you are - a picture for a "terrible" topic.
It's midnight, and we guess that you are sitting constrained in the kitchen surrounded by family members in anticipation of the American President Elections results...

No?

Oh, come on. Never mind. Yet we decided to share this cute map of America with you - for you to become prepared to talks about different states voting results!
Have you seen the news?
Yep, Donald Trump IS the new President of USA.
We are apolitical as always, yet decided to share three final speeches with you.

Hillary ะกlinton: http://lnk.al/37c8
Barack Obama: https://youtu.be/0SLfCkXDAf8?t=9m53s
and
Donald Trump: http://lnk.al/37ca

(as always, you can discuss the results in @violachat)
Are you satisfied with the elections results in the USA?
anonymous poll

No โ€“ 568
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ 47%

I don't even care. โ€“ 337
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ 28%

Yes โ€“ 303
๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘๐Ÿ‘ 25%

๐Ÿ‘ฅ 1208 people voted so far.
Well, we will see the consequences.
We have examined tons of jokes about politics and all of them are awful.

Let it be a quote for today.
When politicians are campaigning for support and votes, they are on the stump.
There weren't enough idioms lately, that's why today we decided to share the whole list of political vocabulary that we found for you:

http://lnk.al/3cmO

The topic for this week is technology, by the way.
By the way, we have reached 7.3k followers. Hurray! We love you!
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OK, some geek jokes about books are here.
We are technophiles, of course. What about you? @violachat is ready for a discussion!
Floppy disk died to become an icon of saving, right?
By the way, Wi-Fi means Wireless Fidelity. Fidelity = accuracy with which an electronic system reproduces the sound or image of its input signal - or the quality of being faithful :)
A new list of vocabulary is here! Some important notes to bear in mind:

โ€œEquipmentโ€ is an uncountable word so you need to say โ€œa piece of equipmentโ€. It is a very general use word that can be used to describe almost anything mechanical.

โ€œApplianceโ€ is typically used in the phrase โ€œelectrical appliancesโ€ (eg irons and kettles) that are less advanced technology.
It's late midnight but the idiom is so cute that we simply couldn't wait longer.