Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2015-03-13 | Author:Fraser McAlpine

WHAT TO SAY: “Remember the year it rained and Cliff Richard led the crowd in a singsong?” WHAT NOT TO SAY (ANY MORE): “Come on, Tim!” Grade-B Swearwords If you ...
( Category: Humor & Satire March 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-01-11 | Author:David Nihill [Nihill, David]

Use funny images and video: While you should prioritize the time to write some humor into your presentations, sometimes that’s easier said than done. If you feel too busy to ...
( Category: Communications March 13,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Ben Crystal & David Crystal [Crystal, Ben Crystal and David]

A SCOTTISH PLAYER BEN Hilton – Yeah, that’s a good question . . . When I was at university, [assumes RP] the George Square University, in the summer holiday, we ...
( Category: Phonetics & Phonics March 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-03-05 | Author:Roald Hoffmann & Iain Boyd Whyte

Why the Sublime Is a Religious Concept There is another, possibly deeper reason why the sublime matters to a contemporary sense of pictures, and why it is so important—and so ...
( Category: Linguistics March 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2010-03-05 | Author:Gregory Bergman

franchise player (noun) A player on an NFL, NBA, or NHL team may be so designated when the player is the “face” of the team. Typically, the player will have ...
( Category: Word Lists March 6,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-11-03 | Author:Rosen, Alan [Rosen, Alan]

The ascription of “strangely disembodied” to audio recorded testimony and the voices that it conveys has them lose exactly what Boder had hoped they would gain. This is true in ...
( Category: Holocaust March 6,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | | Author:Elster, Charles Harrington

Word 50: SPLENETIC (spluh-NET-ik) Irritable, ill-tempered; spiteful and morose; given to angry and impatient fits. You can imagine how many synonyms there are for a word that means irritable or ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-24 | Author:Jim Trelease [Trelease, Jim]

In case you weren’t keeping score, that’s an eighty-word sentence, normally not a thirteen-year-old’s reading fare. But I was willing to wade through it to get the scoop on this ...
( Category: Reading & Phonics March 4,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2011-09-14 | Author:Carol Akiyama;Nobuo Akiyama

§7.7-5 Past Progressive The past progressive is used for past continuous action or state of being. Here are some examples of past continuous action. Examples The following examples show past ...
epub | | 2012-12-02 | Author:Shu-mei Shih

Proletarian Fiction: Nativist and Critical Modernity The New Taiwan Literature Movement of the 1920s and 1930s tried to change people’s worldviews to assist in political and social modernization. Eventually it ...
( Category: Ethnic Studies March 2,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-10-27 | Author:Bernstein, Richard J.;

Brandom’s Contribution I cannot do justice to Brandom’s complex and intricate pragmatic account of discursive justificatory practices, truth claims, and objectivity. His discussion of objectivity appears only at the end ...
( Category: Pragmatism March 2,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2015-05-31 | Author:Crystal, David

Central, middle; coming between the eldest and youngest in age. From Cumberland: ‘Is that t’auldest lad er youngest?’ ‘It’s nowder, it’s middlemer’. mim (adjective) Berkshire, Cornwall, Durham, Ireland, Norfolk, Northumberland, ...
( Category: Vocabulary March 1,2016 )
epub |eng | 2013-07-02 | Author:James McGilvray

In effect, X-bar theory requires that each lexical item project three bar levels: X (which in effect says what category of lexical item it is), X′ (which is less intuitively ...
( Category: Linguistics February 22,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-05 | Author:Umberto Eco

Since we began by speaking of China, let us see what Kircher, insatiable in his lunatic curiosity, did with China. Egyptian was an original language, certainly more perfect than Hebrew ...
( Category: European February 22,2016 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2016-02-19 | Author:Umberto Eco [Eco, Umberto]

4.2 Files and Directories Let us try therefore to compare our cognitive processes, from the first perceptions to the constitution of any knowledge, not necessarily scientific, to the organization of ...
( Category: Ancient & Classical February 22,2016 )