In most Asian families‚ most kids’ first language is their native language. My first language is English but my second language is Vietnamese. It has always been equally important to me in my life. My parents spoke English‚ but little of it. As I was getting a little older‚ one day I heard my parents talking in Vietnamese and it was something about me because they said my name‚ I got really curious and asked them. They would not tell me anything and would just laugh so it made me angry. I realized
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Transcript one: Me: Yoo wagone Fats‚ you aight? Fats: Yeye‚ you? Where’s Fabz? Me: Oh erm nah I dunno where she’s at man‚ I think she stayed at home instead yanoe Fats: Oh is it? (2) Maan! Me: Trust her to not come into school you know‚ aah man Fats: Just watch when she gets to school tomorrow. Gonna make sure she’s sorry. Thanz: (Enters) Hellooo babesh‚ youse lot aight… Me: … (Cuts through) heyoo “BABESH” lawls Thanz: allow me doe‚ oh yeah err where’s flabzilla at
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During this language study I learnt a lot about my idiolect‚ sociolect and the criticisms & stereotypes on teenager languages. In order to find out I recorded a survey and made a transcript of a conversation of mine with my friends. My mum would always remind me that I am still a Filipino. And to always respect other people especially the ones who are older than you. And that she don’t want me to adopt British teenagers attitudes-rude‚ impolite‚ arrogant bunch. She was just being stereotypical-
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FACULTY OF EDUCATION AND LANGUAGE HBEL1203 LANGUAGE DISCRIPTION MATRICULATION NO : 650518135095003 IDENTITY CARD NO. : 650618-13-5095 TELEPHONE NO. :0194596391 E-MAIL : tedmund57@yahoo.com LEARNING CENTRE : PPT SIBU‚ SARAWAK Task 1 SINGAPORE: More than 1‚000 Singaporean attended the city-state’s biggest rally in recent memory yesterday‚ amid growing public indignation over predictions of a surging foreign population. The peaceful rally‚ held at an officially
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Language analysis-practice EAL cat Fear must not blind us to facts The article ‘Fear must not blind us to fact’ has published on the Insight Publications (website) in 2013 which was wrote by Cameron Bright. The article is about the Melbourne government is going to install more CCTV cameras in the city to prevent random attacks not happen again. He argues that the government should think carefully about install the CCTV before any evidence shows it makes appreciable different to public safety. The
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THE LANGUAGE OF ADVERTISING *Lakshmanan.M.P “There are four ways‚ and only four ways‚ in which we have contact with the world. We are evaluated and classified by these four contacts: what we do‚ how we look‚ what we say‚ and how we say it.” -Dale Carnegie Abstract We are living in an era of information explosion in which advertising seems to be an indispensable building block of the media.
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"It is a puzzling thing. The truth knocks on the door and you say‚ Go away‚ I ’m looking for the truth‚ ’ and so it goes away. Puzzling." The irony of Robert Pirsig touches on the strange encounter of self-deception. I know the truth and you do not; I intentionally hide the truth from youthis is the lie. But with this understanding of deception‚ how then‚ is self-deception possible? Does one know the truth about something and then‚ simultaneously‚ hide the truth from one ’s self? How could
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CONCEPTS OF PROGRAMING LANGUAGES (COMPUTER SCIENCE 7) PRELIMINARIES Reasons for Studying Concepts of Programming Languages 1. Increased capacity to express ideas – People with limited grasp of natural language are limited in the complexity of their thoughts‚ it is difficult for people to conceptualize structure that they cannot describe‚ verbally or in writing. Programmers in the process of developing software encounter the same constraint. Programmers can increase the range of their software-development
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CONCLUSION. Assembly language is a representation of machine language. In other words‚ each assembly language instruction translates to a machine language instruction. The advantage of assembly language is that its instructions are readable. For example‚ assembly language statements like MOV and ADD are more recognizable than sequences of 0s and 1s. Though assembly language statements are readable‚ the statements are still low-level. Another disadvantage of assembly language is that it is not portable
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Is Language An Instinct Education Essay As you are reading these words‚ you are taking part in one of the wonders of the natural world. Linguists have continually been bewildered by language and the language debate which has been inundated with arguments by several professionals to support either the instinctive or learned side of the debate. So‚ in 1994 when “The Language Instinct” by psychologist Steven Pinker was published‚ it reignited the discussion. His book utilized the concepts developed
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