Tag: language
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June 09, 2008 08:55 PM EDT --
How much I miss the English language.
For years I lived in a country in which
English was my private world
Where I taught my children the language of my youth
Where I laughed at the jokes that . . .
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July 24, 2008 02:24 PM EDT --
Just baby signs right now to start but I am having a blast! My kids are enjoying it too. We want to teach the baby plus I think it would just be nice to know it. I purchased a Baby Einstein . . .
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December 05, 2008 11:56 PM EST --
Hello!
When my husband and I first moved to Texas, he had a really hard time finding a job. He took a temp. job with a test grading facility. His job was to grade essays written by high . . .
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January 11, 2009 07:29 PM EST --
Hello everyone!
I know I've been quite delinquent and to make it up to you I'd like to tell as much as I am able about my home and our language.
http://images.nationmaster.com/images/motw/americas/jamaica_pop_1968.jpg . . .
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March 19, 2009 10:18 AM EDT --
I had some glitches with the program last week, however everything is fixed now. Before the tech staff at helped me, . . .
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May 01, 2009 09:38 PM EDT --
Name any language
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June 25, 2008 10:45 PM EDT --
George Bernard Shaw -- Irish dramatist, literary critic, socialist spokesman, 20th century theater figure, Nobel Laureate in Literature (1925), freethinker, defender of women's rights, and advocate . . .
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November 23, 2009 05:37 PM EST --
Today's pitfalls are more that most of us really know if we think about them, but we are either in too much of a hurry or content to let spellcheck take care of it all. . . .
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March 19, 2006 10:28 PM EST --
Here's how cool spoken English is: I'm sitting on a bus the other night and I overhear two teenage girls talking. One goes, "I'm all like, get out of my face! And she's like, you . . .
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May 02, 2008 07:13 PM EDT --
I just started to teach myself the sign language. I found that there are many different signs for the same word. It is complex and difficult, but I am still going to go forth and learn it. . . .
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April 21, 2006 10:57 PM EDT --
...and not all of them well!
Two things have happened to me in the past week that I have decided to post about. They are both about the English language. I am in America, and I have traveled to many foreign . . .
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April 11, 2007 07:23 PM EDT --
By Marty Salo
News Correspondent
Don Imus is an older man. That is about as an egregious offense as the supposed "hateful speech" he engaged in.
Now that Al Sharpton has been emboldened, . . .
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October 02, 2007 09:38 PM EDT --
just implant a phone in a teenager's ear. It would save them the trouble of picking it up and saying, "Waz up?"
The answer to the previous question appears to be, "Nuttin'!" . . .
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November 13, 2007 08:38 PM EST --
Everyone has their own way of speaking. I grew up near Pittsburgh, where certain words and phrases are known as "Pittsburghese". Since moving to New England, I have confused so many people . . .
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January 25, 2008 08:46 AM EST --
I watch a lot of television - too much in fact. I watch so much that I often find myself talking back to the TV set. Mainly what I say - shout to be exact - is to correct the atrocious use . . .
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February 12, 2008 12:12 PM EST --
So,
My husband's family is predominately Scotish. I think it would be the coolest thing ever for us to speak some basic gaelic with our daughter. I really want to get a head start and . . .
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February 26, 2008 11:30 PM EST --
horroroso = horrible / dreadful / ghastly
Pronounced: oh-rroh-róh-soh
Type: adjective
Example: Viven en una casa horrorosa en un barrio pobre.
Translation: They live in a ghastly house . . .
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April 05, 2008 12:54 AM EDT --
Is this a famous quote... or is it a poem...or is it.... well, what could it be. What is the form called? Do you recognize this sentence. What language is it? I will wait until we have . . .
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July 03, 2008 11:25 AM EDT --
Which way are we as Americans and as human beings headed? There are only two ways to go - either forward or backward; we cannot stand still.
In the fields of science, medicine and communications . . .
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August 08, 2008 08:08 AM EDT --
Many of our English words when used in another country mean something quite different. They look and sound exactly the same, but the meanings are very different and can get you into trouble, which . . .
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