Just because you don’t like it doesn’t make it somehow “not real.” This is one of the more absurd notions that people have about language: that the mere dislike of a word invalidates its very existence. You’d never see that logic deployed effectively anywhere else in the real world...
The Greek Language Thesaurus, is a research center at the University of California, Irvine. Founded in 1972 the TLG has collected and digitized most literary texts written in Greek, from Homer in the 8th century BC to the fall of Byzantium in AD 1453. On this page we will briefly examine ...
You’ve undoubtedly heard the word “mortgage” thrown around a million times. But you may not know that in the literal sense, it is defined as a “death pledge” in the French language. Ironically, the French don’t actually use the word themselves (they use hypothèque, while Spanish s...
To understand the culture of a particular country or region, one could examine its components, among which are material culture, language, and social organisation. Material culture includes the tools and symbols in a society, not including those physical things found in nature, unless they have ...
K () the eleventh letter of the English alphabet, is nonvocal consonant. The form and sound of the letter K are from the Latin, which used the letter but little except in the early period of the language. It came into the Latin from the Greek, which received it from a Phoenician ...
early this morning president trump tweeted a fake word. social media's reaction is a prime example of how language travels online. luca bruno/ap save save leave it to donald trump to keep twitter guessing. just after midnight eastern this morning, the president did what the president often ...
And unlike many of his alien and android contemporaries, Chewbacca did so without speaking a word (that viewers could understand, anyway). With waving arms and turns of the head, Chewbacca could project urgency or contemplation and provided comic relief as he pantomimed to a language that was...
Teachers can improve their relationships with students by ending their language of rejection and using a language of acceptance, inviting students to cooperate rather than demanding that a behavior occur, providing acceptance and acknowledgment for student behavior, conferring dignity upon the students, ...
2016, but they have had nothing to say to us. I think if they could point to something that was wrong, one of them would have said as much. Also, it is natural that close-knit groups evolve with specialized language and concepts which those outside their group do not fully understand....
Interviews conducted in Spanish were transcribed but not translated; instead, they were analyzed in their original language. As is common in qualitative data analysis, the research team used an iterative process to read through the transcripts and develop a set of codes with memos grounded in the...