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JUSTICE FOR SALE vs. DEEP US GOVERNMENT & TURKISH CONNECTIONS
THE STORY... BEHIND THE STORY... I am not Journalist, I am a victim of theft. I am here by necessity, fighting forces much larger than us. Before we were aware of what Sibel Edmonds was doing... We have been... THE LARGEST ESPIONAGE, BRIBERY & POLITICAL SCANDAL IN US HISTORY
A long tale of massive corruption that has been hidden throughout the eight years of the Bush administration is finally surfacing. After... It's Repugnant When the Media Describes Torture as Merely "Harsh"
The most disgusting and omnipresent cliché in journalism right now is "harsh" as a word to describe "torture, as in "harsh interrogation" (WaPost)and"harsh methods" (NYT).Look up the phrase"harsh interrogation"and you'll find it 247,000 times at Google. Look up "harsh... 208 views | 12 recommendations | 4 comments
Girls and Boys Brains Differ Biological on Linguistics Learning
I suggest this news to you all beacuseif this research can multiply on all than we can use it for expending education in all sections of our society. specally to women with educational tools suited to their biologgy most. "ABC Live: How child learns languages still... Linguistic snobbery. What do we mean by 'posh'?
"In the latest in our series on what we mean by 'posh' in 2007, Dr. Penelope Gardner-Chloros examines how speaking habits have changed in recent years. Try this test: If YOU call something or someone ‘posh’, is it a. a compliment, b. an insult, or c. neither? Not many... More About Obscenity
I had a story in the Globe earlier this week about a new linguistic study of obscenity. The story ran a bit long and some of it ended up on the cutting room floor, so I thought I would reconstitute it here. Call this the "director's cut." In keeping with previous postings on... Coming soon, a linguist's guide to obscenities
"The National Science Foundation is paying more than $200,000 for a study whose results may be unprintable.The grant's title, "Expressive Content and the Semantics of Contexts," doesn't sound exciting, until you figure out what "expressive content" means.Christopher Potts , a... 'Tower of Babel' translator made
"A "Tower of Babel" device that gives the illusion of being bilingual is being developed by US scientists. Users simply have to silently mouth a word in their own language for it to be translated and read out in another."Backs to the future?
"New analysis of the language and gesture of South America's indigenous Aymara people indicates they have a concept of time opposite to all the world's studied cultures -- the past is ahead of them and the future behind. The morphologically-rich language, of which you can...
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