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    The Impact of Accents

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    The Impact of Accent Stereotypes on Service Outcomes and Its Boundary Conditions The Impact of Accent Stereotypes on Service Outcomes and Its Boundary Conditions EXTENDED ABSTRACT “When we listened back to calls people had complained about often they were fine. Some people wanted the member of staff to fail because they were in India. I don’t know why that should be‚ but when customers start voting with their feet‚ you have to respond.” --Adrian Web (Call Center Manager‚

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    Idioms in Newspaper Style

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    Yerevan State Linguistic University after V. Brusov Theme: Idioms in newspaper style Faculty of foreign languages 3th coarse‚ 4th group Student: Grigoryan Victoria Supervisor: Nina Mnatsakanyan Yerevan 2009 TABLE OF CONTENTS Introduction…………………..…………………………………………………..……3 Chapter 1: Idiom‚ general characteristics……………….…………………….…..5 Chapter 2: Newspaper style …………..….… ……………………………….……13 Conclusion…………………………….…………………………………..………….23 Bibliography…………………………….………………………………………….…25 INTRODUCTION Today

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    an idiom

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    “Those people who develop the ability to continuously acquire new and better forms of knowledge that they can apply to their work and to their lives will be the movers and shakers in our society for the indefinite future.” ― Brian Tracy tags: knowledge‚ lifelong-learning “There is nothing more notable in Socrates than that he found time‚ when he was an old man‚ to learn music and dancing‚ and thought it time well spent.” ― Michel de Montaigne tags: learning‚ lifelong-learning‚ philosophy

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    Patidarangia Dialect

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    SYNOPSIS The problem to be investigated: The dialect of Palashbari (Palashbaria) and Pati Darrang (Patidarrangia) : A comparative study. Introduction: Because of some political‚ social‚ cultural and geographical causes‚ if a particular area with certain language is not communicated in a regular basis‚ then the language of that area forms regional dialects. The Assamese language which is used and spread in a large area of both the two banks of the Brahmaputra valley also gives birth to various

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    Idiom

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    Haste makes waste. “Haste makes waste” which is an old saying accepted almost by [almost] everyone. Some people are prone to do the tasks as quickly as they can but then they realize that everything got wrong. From my point of view‚ we should not do things precipitately but instead we should act carefully. For a start‚ haste makes us lose our attention.{"lose our attention" is odd - maybe "haste can prevent us from paying proper attention"} The main reason is that we only think about consequences

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    Idioms and Phrases

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    Directions to Solve Some proverbs/idioms are given below together with their meanings. Choose the correct meaning of proverb/idiom‚ If there is no correct meaning given‚ E (i.e.) ’None of these’ will be the answer. 1.  | To make clean breast of | | A. | To gain prominence | B. | To praise oneself | C. | To confess without of reserve | D. | To destroy before it blooms | E. | None of these | Answer & ExplanationAnswer: Option CExplanation:No answer description available for this

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    The Use of Idioms

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    It ’s So Clichéd "She sat down to write her paper without batting an eyelash." This sentence contains an example of what is called an idiom. Idioms are individual forms of expression specific to one language. They can be thought of as a group of two or more words that together mean something different from the literal meaning of the individual words. "Without batting an eyelash" means to be passive‚ or show no interest in an event or situation. This phrase first appeared in the early 1900 ’s."Batting"

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    BRITISH SLANG AND ITS CLASSIFICATION PLAN I.  INTRODUCTION 1.1 Tasks of the course work 1.2 Definition of slang II.  MAIN PART 2.1 The origin of slang. 2.2 Types of slang. a) Cockney rhyming slang b)  Polari c)  Internet slang d)  Slang of army‚ police e)  Money slang 2.3. Phonetic peculiarities of slang 2.4. Morphological characteristics of slang III.  PRACTICAL PART IV.  CONCLUSION V.  BIBLIOGRAPHY Slang is a language which takes off its

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    Economics Jargons

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    Asset Backed Security (ABS) An asset-backed security is a financial security backed by a loan‚ lease or receivables against assets other than real estate and mortgage-backed securities. For investors‚ asset-backed securities are an alternative to investing in corporate debt. An ABS is essentially the same thing as a mortgage-backed security‚ except that the securities backing it are assets such as loans‚ leases‚ credit card debt‚ a company’s receivables‚ royalties and so on‚ and not mortgage-based

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    Dialect Variation

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    Dialect Variation in Tamil Tamil is one of the ancient languages of the world with records inthe language dating back over two millennia. Its origins are notprecisely known‚ but it developed and flourished in India as a language with a rich literature. With an estimated 30‚000inscriptions‚ Tamil has the largest number of inscriptions in South Asia. Tamil belongs to the southern branch of the Dravidian languages‚a family of around twenty-six languages native to the Indian subcontinent. It is

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