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 . . . more
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August 19, 2008 08:12 AM EDT --
You've used the terms a "pack" of wolves and a "flock" of sheep.... here are some animal terms you probably haven't even heard of:
A pace of asses
A cete of badgers . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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. . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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, . . . more
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October 01, 2007 09:57 PM EDT --
Should America Have English as It's Official Language or Both English and Spanish?
Why or why not?
CNN took a poll on this issue. Seventy-four percent . . . more
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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'!" . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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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 . . . more
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August 17, 2008 06:50 PM EDT --
I don't know about you, but I get totally irate when I make a call and hear...
"PRESS ONE FOR ENGLISH."
Why the hell do I have to press one for English? This is the USA and the official . . . more
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June 15, 2006 08:34 AM EDT --
The readers of this column have once again bombarded the author with a veritable barrage of questions concerning the language which, with . . . more
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September 14, 2007 01:37 PM EDT --
'Oh dr@', said M@, talking to P@ on the fl@ m@ where they both s@.
P@ said, 'Did you see a f@ r@, or get a gn@ in your eye.'
'Nothing like th@, said M@, who was now fl@ on his back . . . more
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February 27, 2008 06:28 PM EST --
petróleo = oil (petroleum)
Pronounced: peh-tróh-leh-oh
Type: noun
Example: Las reservas de petróleo están disminuyendo rápidamente.
Translation: Petroleum . . . more
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