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Spanglish and Romeo
Loving language with musical spirit This post is about Romeo Santos, but I want to talk about Spanglish. ¿If written Spanglish would incorporate the placement of punctuation at the beginning of the... Mankini, Retweet are Real Words, Join COD
Jeggings, Woot & More: New Words Join Concise Oxford English Dictionary Six new words have been included in the Concise Oxford English Dictionary (COD). The following words are now officially part of the English...
created by NowPublic Staff | 40 wks ago | updated 40 wks ago
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"Guns don't kill people. People with guns kill people."
The same is the case with every weapon that there is at a person's disposal.
This includes, but is not limited, to: Violence, law, professional authority, political power, money, and all else that can be used by... The Narcissist's Weapon of Language
By Sam Vaknin Author of "Malignant Self-love: Narcissism Revisited""A sharp tongue is the only edged tool that grows keener with constant use." (Rip van Winkle by Washington Irving) In the narcissist's surrealistic world, even language is pathologized. It mutates into a... LEBOKU NEW YAM FESTIVAL 2011
Leboku is the annual New Yam Festival celebrated in Ugep, cross river state of Nigeria to honor of the earth goddess and the ancestral spirits of the land in Ugep, one of the five settlements of Yakurr.[1][2] The... French who become English and Pot Smoking Grandma!
My parents were both pure laine Quebecois, literally meaning pure wool Quebec stock. My descendants can be traced to King Louis the Sixteenth of France. My mother until the time of her death still had... What is 'ya' in the last letters of countries name?
I wonder whether there is commonality in world languages. Most countries have a ‘ya’ sound at the last letters of their name. For example: India, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Australia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Russia, Albania, Slovakia, Austria, Kenya, etc. What is this?
The... Playing Musical Instruments Improves Reading and Language Skills
Learning and Playing a Musical Instrument Improves Reading Children who learn to play a musical instrument may have an advantage when it comes to reading. Professor Nina Kraus of Northwestern University in...
created by Paul Conneally | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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English rises to No. 2 medium: India
Language is big political plank here in India, and every day linguistic clashes occur in one form or the other. The strangest thing is these clashes are that it is not between regional language and English but the HINDI. This is specially more astounding because in just three... d'Armond Speers Teaches Son Klingon as First-Language for 3 Years
d'Armond Speers, a Minnesota dad, thought it would be a good idea to teach his son Klingon as his first language by only speaking to him in the Star Trek race's tongue for the first three years of his life. But Speers ain't no Trekkie, he made it clear that he is not as big... Baybayin – the lost tagalog script of pre-Spanish conquest
As the days go by I learn more about the nation its history and the people in these beautiful Islands of the Philippines. Until today I thought the West brought literacy to Philippines but that is not so in fact... 1012 views | 2 recommendations | 3 comments
Wrong way not to read this, please
"The authorities in the Chinese city of Shanghai are starting a campaign to try to spot and correct badly phrased English on signs in public places.Chinglish, as the inaccurate use of the language is known, has long been a source of embarrassment for the authorities there.... Frenemy, Locavore, Vlog Enter Webster's Dictionary
Neologisms such as Frenemy, locavore, and vlog have officially become English-language words, according to Merriam-Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Among the 100 new additions to the dictionary are:Frenemy: an emeny who acts like a friendVlog: video blogLocavore: one who eats...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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Monkeys Recognize Bad Grammar
Cotton-top tamarin monkeys are a step ahead of most web users, and can recognize bad grammar when they see it. When subjected to repeated series of syllables, the monkeys could recognize when those syllables...
created by Jordan Yerman | 2 years ago | updated 2 years ago
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211 views | 51 recommendations | 5 comments
Sri Lanka's forgotten displaced Muslims
Displaced in Sri Lanka dueto late ltte terror. " Sri Lanka's forgotten displaced Muslims By Swaminathan Natarajan ... NowPublic on Facebook
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