users’ abilities to use the English language. John Humphrys begins the article with complaints about the removal of hyphens from more than 16‚000 words in the Oxford English dictionary. He referred it to laziness as he wrote: “Are our lives really so pressured‚ every minute occupied in so many vital tasks‚ every second accounted for‚ that we cannot afford the millisecond (no hyphen) it takes to tap the key?” (2007:1) John Humphrys essentially states that text messaging‚ is as a form of laziness and
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1. Introduction to English lexicology 2. Origins and periodization of English 3. Lexical relationships 4. Word formation 5. Special vocabularies Bibliography: 1. Jackson‚ H. and Angela E.Z. – Words‚ meaning and vocabulary‚ 2000. 2. Bauer‚ Laurie – English Word formation‚ 1983. 3. Horia Hulban- Synthesis in English lexicology and Semantics‚ 2001. 4. Corneliu Nicolescu – Anglia si spiritul englez‚ 2010. 5. Vladimir Moss – Caderea Angliei ortodoxe‚ 2010. 6. E.L. Edward – History of
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for Raleigh. The diverse sentence structure used by Sherriff‚ using long and short‚ affects the pace of the play and the tone. At the beginning of the extract‚ he is shown that he is suffering‚ as the sentences are elongated with the use of hyphens‚ ‘everybody else – up there.’ And ‘-thanks –’. This also contrasts the very last lines he speaks (‘Thanks awfully’)‚ because as his lines decrease in length‚ his health and fight to live drops until he is finally dead. Pathetic fallacy is used
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In the three poems My Life by Joe Wenderoth‚ Bike Ride With Older Boys by Laura Kasischke and The Cord by Leanne O’Sullivan the theme of adolescence is developed through the language techniques these writers have used. A different idea of adolescence is represented in each poem which explains the troubles we can have through adolescence such as the problems we have to face and accept‚ decision making and how mothers are so protective of their children growing up. These ideas are shown through the
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is encoded in the read-only memory (ROM) of the NIC and‚ ideally‚ is not subject to change (though some vendors do allow this). The MAC address is 48 bits in length (6 bytes) and is commonly represented as 12 hexadecimal characters (separated by hyphens or colons depending upon the application). You can see an example of a MAC address in Figure 5-1. The first 24 bits are the manufacturer’s Organizationally Unique Identifier (OUI); the last 24 bits are uniquely assigned by the manufacturer for each
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was only accessible through a sea of “parted. . . heavy coats.” This is significant because it is made clear to the reader that the narrator possesses a sense of innocent imagination that is vital to her happiness in her life Syntax The use of hyphens to describe the “over-one-hundred-degrees days” and “a help-him-out block of ice” functions to dramatize and emphasize the special occasion theses occurrences
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punctuation are now being seen as old fashioned and behind the times. Mr. Humphrys gives an example of how the English language is changing with a reference to the changes made to the Oxford English dictionary. Words like potbelly that in the past used hyphens to separate them are now being put together‚ just to save a few seconds of typing time (Humphrys 175). Mr. Humphrys discusses how text messages have even changed over the years. They started with only a few abbreviations and emoticons and now there
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No Place like Home Neil Bissoondath uncovers the cracks in Canada’s multicultural mosaic. ________________________________________ THREE or four years into the new millennium‚ Toronto‚ Canada’s largest city‚ will mark an unusual milestone. In a city of three million‚ the words ’minorities’ and ’majority’ will be turned on their heads and the former will become the latter. Reputed to be the most ethnically diverse city in the world‚ Toronto has been utterly remade by immigration‚ just as Canada
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Punctuation differences between American and British English There are many differences between American and British English as regards to spelling in general‚ but differences in punctuation are minimal. Actually‚ there isn’t an official book of rules in America about spelling: the American style was established for typographical reasons‚ a historical legacy from the use of the handset printing press. It is used by most American newspapers‚ publishing houses and style guides in the United States
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and province in address - to separate facts concerning victims and suspects Example: Jolas Burayag‚ 17‚ of barangay San Fernando Norte - do not use commas to separate the abbreviation dr.‚ sr.‚ or from the name Example: Emmanuel Delgado Jr. Hyphen - used in most compound nouns Example: Editor- in- chief‚ officer-in- charge - in fractions Example: two- thirds‚ three- fourths - in numerals
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