Considering I’ve been forced myself to switch between the anglicized & Bengali versions of my own lastname at diff times at diff schools, I realize the irony of it all talking about Chinese American identity & the English language to a class of multilingual speakers from many countries in ...
Assamese is rich in vowels. It has eight vowel phonemes, i.e., sounds that make a difference in word meaning. Vowels can be oral or nasal. Nasalization makes a difference in word meaning. In addition, Assamese has a wide variety of diphthongs and vowel sequences....
In part, it was the skill of the actors and their body language. But one of the biggest ways that the actors communicated meaning was one thing. Their tone of voice. Tone is one of the most important ways we grasp the meaning of what someone is saying. If someone says, “I love ...
Germination (1) The house was full of guests. It was her sister’s birthday, and there was rice pudding as well… Aloka,featured,Fiction,flash,germination,girlhood,poems,Prose,story Streets Poetry Collection by Peter Girgis A brief on the streets of homosapiens Kill animals, your belly is gi...
languages. There are numeroussandhiforms. Sandhi (from Sanskrit word meaning ‘joining’) refers to sound changes that occur at morpheme or word boundaries. They occur in all languages, for instance, in English the consonant /f/ changes to /v/ before the plural marker, e.g.,knife – ...
I recognize a lot of persons just use people regardless. Could I have said a lot of people use ‘people’ in their grammer. I do not think so. But I am still learning. Let the debate rage on. What is important is that there be some consensus as words change their meaning in differe...
the other: ‘Eat the frog’ – an expression new to me, meaning, if it’s bugging you, do it. I carry around, for days (sometimes for months), tasks that I am reluctant to undertake e.g. ringing the tech help of our Broadband provider. Clear one or more of these first thing in...
I have a backlog of bits and pieces I’ve been meaning to share so here goes the first. Veteran theatre maker Peter Brook is still going strong at the age of 91. As the UK’s most influential theatre director of the 20th Century (despite being based in France for many years) Brook’...
🖎Meaning and Description 🖎 is not an official Emoji, but it can be used as a Unicode character. There is another emoji with a(n) similar meaning/appearance to LEFT WRITING HAND: ✍ (writing hand), which can be used instead of 🖎 in some cases. 💡Extended reading and ...
Ideograph are designed to represent relatively abstract ideas, usually by combining several pictograms into a compound whose meaning can be rather arbitrary, as in the example below. Phonetic compounds Over 90% of Chinese characters were created by combining a character with a related meaning with an...