During this time speech and language therapists helped him begin to speak, providing the exposure to words he’d missed in his childhood. His once dormant, undeveloped neural networks began to respond to these new repetitive patterns of stimulation. His brain seemed to be like a sponge, thirsty...
Have you (13) that you can leave on a flight an hour late but still arrive on time? Tailwinds? Of course not! Airlines have simply changed the time a (14) is meant to take. A one-hour flight is now billed as a two-hour flight. The (15) of the story is simple. Most jobs ...
In this, I hope to highlight the aspect of lists that is similar to J. L. Austin’sperformative utterance, an act of speech that is not only descriptive but is itself accomplishing an action. In the case of year-end lists this is often declaring and christening certain albums as particul...
it was time to reread a few Meredith Duran favorites. I just finished theEnlightenmentseries by Joanna Chambers, (A|BN|K|AB) and it was very enjoyable. I had been meaning to read that for a while. I am about to embark onThe Hidden Moon, the new Jeannie Lin, but first rereadingThe ...
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He says these things to be provocative47, to get a rise out of Benny or Elvira, but his words drift away like the speech of old people on the porches when he was a boy. Not for the first time since returning to the lot does he feel he is not really there, but is a ghost being...
During this time speech and language therapists helped him begin to speak, providing the exposure to words he’d missed in his childhood. His once dormant, undeveloped neural networks began to respond to these new repetitive patterns of stimulation. His brain seemed to be like a sponge, thirsty...