The specific focus of the paper is the female immigrant subjecthood as represented in the collection of stories How to Pronounce Knife (2020) by Souvankham Thammavongsa -- born in a Lao refugee camp in Thailand, but brought up in Canada. As the collection progre...
Unconscious or implicit bias is an assumption about someone or something we may not even be aware of. It often occurs in the subconscious and affects how we interact with others. For example, someone who speaks louder around older adults may have an unconscious bias that assumes they are all ...
They tend to begin with a first person verb in a form we could describe as simple present: I bet, I warn, etc. b. This verb belongs to a special cl 16、ass describing verbal activities for example: promise, warn, sentence, name, bet, pronounce. c. Generally their performative nature ...
Pronunciations of names vary widely, and there are often subtle sounds that people will gladly correct for you once they’ve heard you mispronounce their name. It’s only polite to make sure you can pronounce a person’s name right. Plus, pronunciation is one of the weakest points for me....
If you try to say “hgost,” the sound “HG” seems impossible to pronounce, doesn’t it? But the sound “GH” in “ghost” is possible. Use that! 3. Learn New Sounds Separately Learning English changes the way your brain works. Amazingly, learning a new language actually makes your ...
They tend to begin with a first person verb in a form we could describe as simple present: I bet, I warn, etc. b. This verb belongs to a special class describing verbal activitie 16、s for example: promise, warn, sentence, name, bet, pronounce. c. Generally their performative nature ...
Attentive hiring managers will be well aware of the statistics surrounding difficult-to-pronounce names (also known as name bias), or the lean towards attractive candidates (also known as beauty bias), but where does it all start? Much of the unconscious bias in recruiting happens in your jo...
Random three-letter combination that is pronounceable, and not actually used by any common UNIX command. The fact that it is a mispronunciation of "get" may or may not be relevant. Stupid. Contemptible and despicable. Simple. Take your pick from the dictionary of slang. "Global information ...
every teacher in the world. And these things don’t perfectly translate to a classroom with social distance, or masks, or an online learning space. They don’t translate perfectly, but they do transfer. So knowing a child’s name, what they prefer to be called, how to pronounce their na...
(xiǎngyào), the tone on the first syllable islow, but the number of Americans who pronounce the name of their own country asméiguóis astounding. Naturally, this is not limited to Americans; I myself misunderstood how the third tone worked, and it took much effort to fix. I wrote ...