Tanya Patterson Dr. Elisabeth Mclaren ENG 102 July 5‚ 2015 From Ancient Greece to Iraq‚ the Power of Words in Wartime - Summary After reading the article written by Robin Tolmach Lakoff a linguistics professor at the University of California‚ Berkeley. Robin Tolmach Lakoff obtained her degrees in linguistics with a B.A.‚ M.A.‚ and Ph.D. from Harvard University (Berkeley.edu). Linguistics is the scientific study of language. The article was published in the New York Times on
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original Greek is neuter. Jesus is only referred to by the title "Son of God" after he is born‚ presumably after he becomes a person. This is consistent with the traditional Jewish belief that a fetus becomes a full human after it has half-emerged from the mother’s birth canal. Luke 1:41...when Elizabeth heard the salutation of Mary‚ the babe leaped in her womb.... Elizabeth’s fetus was in an advanced stage of pregnancy. Verse 36 states that she was in her 6th month‚ at a time when the fetus is
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Honorificabilitudinitatibus This 27-letter word coined by Shakespeare‚ in his comedy Love’s Labour’s Lost‚ is a testament to the Bard’s own intralexiconic skills. Meaning “the state of being able to achieve honors‚” the word is the longest one in the English language with alternating consonants and vowels (Take a look for yourself….yep 9. Antidisestablishmentarianism Containing 28-letters‚ antidisestablishmentarianism is the longest proper word‚ consisting of proper and compatible root and
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generation there is different reaction to the word ¨nigga¨ or ¨nigger¨ than there was before. When you say the ¨n¨ word some people take it as calling you ¨dude¨ ‚¨man¨ or some people get insulted. Most African Americans say it is not okay for white people to say the ¨n¨ word because of the history behind it. When using this word it traces down to bad history even though it has totally different meaning and is not meant to insult anybody. If you use this word in referring to a friend then it shows your
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Now I am going to introduce the cyber language which is used by foreigners. English cyber language usually comes from online games‚ video games and general pop cultural‚ like movie‚ youtube video clips‚ and so on. People usually take the first alphabet of the words in a phrase and combine them into a new word. And these are some of the examples of acronym. They are commonly use all over the world. I think these examples you all may be familiar with‚ so now I am going to introduce some not so familiar
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Mengdie Luo mandyluo@umich.edu English 125.043 Scott Beal Jan.23‚ 2013 Assignment #1 More than frenemy Being a single child‚ as I can tell you‚ is a difficult thing. Aside from the sometimes-unresolvable loneliness and almost always-glued attention‚ the constant comparison with the ‘kids next door’ can be supremely annoying. The phrase stands for those children of several close friends of your mom or literally just the kids who live next door. For me‚ there’s always been a girl like that
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would mentally punish that would be a different story‚ such as calling them bad names pushing them down and lowering there self a steam‚ would not be morally correct in my opinion. Respect cannot be demanded‚ it is an asset that has to be earned. From the very childhood kids are taught to respect their parents‚ elders‚ teachers and an unending list of social obligations. But an ambiguity arises when the teachings do no match the practical experiences. Children find it hard to respect certain persons
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all kinds of products from a vast variety of large corporate companies almost every single day. In places like Manhattan‚ more specifically Times Square‚ there are a plethora of advertisements on grand billboards and on beautiful immersive screens that rest beside buildings. Ad’s have drastically increased since the turn of the twenty first century. Companies use clever tactics‚ such as weasel words and psychological tactics to differentiate them from other companies. Words like better‚ improved
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Name: Ziyi Xu Tutor’s Name: Ellie Ristic Submission Date: 25 Nov‚ 2014 Word count: 618 words Since 1949‚ Mao created People Republic of China‚ he became a leader in almost 27 years. The establishment of new China marks the opening of a new age. With the establishment of People’s Republic of China‚ Mao Zedong outlining general goals and main course for transforming China from agricultural country to industrial‚ and from new-democratic society to socialist. In the main time Mao also set up
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The Truth in Their Words 2013-10-17 How can you keep a story unbiased and true to the actual meaning when telling the story from different perspectives? Edgar Allen Poe’s stories “the cask of amontillado” and “the tell tale heart” are great examples of unreliable narrators and how readers should question the narrators perspective instead of just willingly believing everything that has been said. Some times readers have to think past what is being said and explore the possibility of the
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