Words, Language & Grammar
epub |eng | 2016-11-28 | Author:Yee-Lum Mak

KINTSUKUROI (noun, Japanese) lit. “to repair with gold”; the art of repairing pottery with gold or silver lacquer and understanding that the piece is more beautiful for having been broken ...
( Category: Vocabulary November 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-22 | Author:Shon Meckfessel

Forcing Comparisons You are suggesting broken windows are worse than broken spines. —DeRay Mckesson193 In 2012, months after Occupy Seattle had fallen apart during debates about whether the movement should ...
( Category: Radicalism November 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-11-10 | Author:Penilla, Adan R. & Taylor, Angela Lee [Penilla, Adan R.]

English: I want that skirt. Sign: SKIRT — THAT (one) — WANT ME English: Where is my wallet? Sign: MY WALLET — WHERE Q English: If you wear a blouse, ...
( Category: Sign Language November 19,2016 )
epub, azw3 |eng | 2016-02-23 | Author:Nicholas Ostler [Ostler, Nicholas]

to kto mojetĭ na vodou besědou pisati ili Eretičĭsko imă sebě obrěsti So who can write speech upon water, or find for himself the name of a heretic?6 Nonetheless, he ...
( Category: General November 9,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Lee Brewer

WOOD MAGAZINE Meredith Corporation, 1716 Locust St., LS221, Des Moines IA 50309. E-mail: [email protected]. Website: www.woodmagazine.com. 3% freelance written. Magazine published 7 times/year covering woodworking. Wood manuscripts are friendly, informative, ...
( Category: Reference November 7,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Donaldson, Bruce;

Note that bevallen takes zijn in the perfect. When you like to do something, as opposed to liking a person or thing, you express this with graag (lit. ‘gladly/willingly’) plus ...
( Category: Foreign Language Study & Reference November 5,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-11-23 | Author:Glenn Parsons [Parsons, Glenn]

Notes 1 The literature in this area is vast, and crosses many disciplines; for a recent overview, see Hicks and Beaudry (2010). 2 A further complexity arises from the fact ...
( Category: Epistemology September 29,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Tylor, Edward Burnett; [Edward Burnett Tylor]

Dooe saltee 2d. due soldi. Tray saltee 3d. tre soldi. Quarterer saltes 4d. quattro soldi. Chinker saltee 5d. cinque soldi. Say saltee 6d. sei soldi. Say oney saltee or setter ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-24 | Author:Tylor, Edward Burnett; [Edward Burnett Tylor]

CHAPTER XVI. ANIMISM—continued. Higher Deities of Polytheism —Human characteristics applied to Deity —Lords of Spiritual Hierarchy —Polytheism : its course of development in lower and higher Culture —Principles of its ...
( Category: Cultural September 25,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-07-26 | Author:Benjamin K. Bergen

7 How Cock Lost Its Feathers A thousand years ago, people living in the British Isles spoke various manifestations of Old English, the language that would evolve over the subsequent ...
( Category: Linguistics September 24,2016 )
mobi |eng | 2010-10-04 | Author:Henschel, Astrid [Henschel, Astrid]

Change the following sentences from the passive to the active. 1. Das Auto wird jetzt von Müllers verkauft. ____________________________________________________ 2. Das Versprechen ist gebrochen worden. (Er) ____________________________________________________ 3. Das Buch ...
( Category: Foreign Language Dictionaries & Thesauruses September 16,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-09-05 | Author:John McWhorter [McWhorter, John]

Grammaticalization as Spectator Sport From the point of view of one language, such as our own, it will seem as if grammaticalization serves to lend a language the tools it ...
( Category: Etymology September 10,2016 )
epub |eng | 2011-09-07 | Author:Aristotle; Kenny, Anthony;

RELATION OF WISDOM TO UNDERSTANDING What is the use of wisdom and philosophy? 12. One might wonder whether these virtues are of any use. Philosophical understanding does not focus on ...
( Category: Ethics & Morality September 8,2016 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-30 | Author:Rochester, Myrna Bell [Rochester, Myrna Bell]

Demonstrative Pronouns Demonstrative pronouns (in English: this one, that one, those) refer to a person, thing, or idea mentioned previously in a conversation. In French, they agree in gender and ...
( Category: Grammar September 6,2016 )
epub |eng | 2009-08-20 | Author:Piattelli-Palmarini, Massimo; Uriagereka, Juan; Salaburu, Pello

15.5 Rational numbers are hard I will conclude now with two contrasting numerical concepts: the successor principle and rational numbers. The successor principle captures the idea that there is always ...
( Category: Linguistics August 21,2016 )