It’s natural to fear and reject the unfamiliar, I get that. But it’s only since the formalisation of arbitrary grammar rules and regulations that deviating from this perceived norm has resulted in pointing fingers and accusations of being “raised in a sewer”. Until the 17th Century (ish...
As an immigrant child to Canada, I experienced teachers who had very little understanding of how difficult it was to learn a new language. In fact, the strategies and methods used back in the 1970s primary school system were so dreadful that it inspired me to become not only an English as...
9 When Joab perceived that he would be attacked both from the front and from the rear, he chose the best of the troops of Israel and arrayed them against the Arameans. 10 He put the rest of his forces in charge of his brother Abishai and arrayed them against the Ammonites. 11 Then ...
Did the drop the mail in ballot in the box outside the muni building a couple of weeks ago. Unfortunately, NJ’s “in-person voting” is only by provisional ballots, which have even less of a chance of being counted than the mail in ones. And both are subject to fraud, the focus o...
Fifty-six Portuguese speakers born and raised in Brazil produced Portuguese words beginning in one of four plosives, /p b k ɡ/. Twenty-eight of them were monolinguals (controls), and the rest were learners of English as a foreign language (EFL). The learners were also asked to produce ...