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...Witty, opinionated alphabetical examples of what Bierce considered poor (American) English and advice on alternatives - entertaining, thought-provoking, occasionally outdated but so interesting to see how style and taste have changed....
...This is Perhaps the best Quran English translation. It is clear, easy to read, and very faithful to the Arabic original. It closely follows the Arabic text, and often reminds the reader of the Arabic original. It uses today's English language, and today's ...
....A group of persons who do the same thing in Spanish would display definite Spanish looks, demeanour, behaviour and social pattern and arrangement.An English speaking society would be having its own definite looks and, also a very easily identifiable interpersonal interaction configuration. ...
...A QUOTE from the book about what would happen to the US, when feudal language speakers swarm into this once good quality English nation. This was written around 1990: ...a stage may come, at least, in certain areas, where the innate resilience of the English structure may be severely tested; and cause much distress to the individual persons;...
...Part I Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 English in comparison with other languages Chapter 3 The overpowering force of a feudal language Heed these words Chapter 4 The International Effect-a preparatory reflection The seeming coincidences Chapter 5 Th...
...games. All of these games are similar. In every kind of checkers, the other player's pieces can be taken by being "jumped" over. "Checkers" is the American name. In British English, and in various other English-speaking nations, these games are called "draughts." The rules and championships are controlled by the World Draughts Federation. ...
... most distinguished institutions of higher learning. The organization, the legacy of Peter Cooper, occupies a special place in the cultural fabric of American life. Founded by industrialist, inventor and philanthropist Peter Cooper, Cooper Union houses schools of art, architecture and engineering, as well as a world-class faculty of humanities and social sciences...
Dubai International School English Department 2015-2016 Grade 11
...ona‘auao makua/kamali‘i no ka lawelawe ‘ana i na ‘ohana o Ko‘olauloa ma ka mokupuni o O‘ahu. Me ke kokua kala ‘ana o ka Administration for Na- tive Americans no ka pahana Na Kama o Ko‘olauLoa, ha‘awi keia ‘ahahui i na ‘ohana i mau lawelawe ‘ohana a me na ha‘awina ho‘ona‘auao ho‘i no ka ulu maika‘i ‘ana o ke keiki kupono ma kona mo‘omeheu a me ka pilina kanaka. ‘O ka...
...Vowel pronunciation: Ka Papa Puana The (5) Hawaiian vowels are pronounced similar to the following English words. A sounds like U in UMBRELLA E sounds like E in RED I sounds like E in HE O sounds like O in GO U sounds like OO in MOON...
...erpretable! Your imagination may florish as a cactus in a desert. But, The American Manifesto of the PARADOXISM is especially a revolt of the emigra... ...especially a revolt of the emigrant to the United States who doesn’t speak English, against the language - an anti- language book written in more tha... ...against the language - an anti- language book written in more than a broken English (the American speach of Tomorrow?)… [From the book: NonPoems, b... ...anguage - an anti- language book written in more than a broken English (the American speach of Tomorrow?)… [From the book: NonPoems, by Florentin S... ...l! Sua imaginação pode florir como um cáctus no deserto. Mas, o Manifesto Americano do PARADOXISMO é especialmente uma revolta do emigrante ao Esta... ...livro anti-língua escrito em mais do quê um inglês despedaçado (o discurso americano do amanhã?)... [Do livro: NonPoems, por Florentin Smarandache, ... ...imaginación debe florecer como un cactus en el desierto. Pero el manifesto americano del paradoxismo es especialmente una revuelta de los immigrante... ...; Guralnik, David B., editori, “Webster’s New World Dictionary of American English”, Third College Èdition, Cleveland & New York, 1988. [6 ] Popa, C... ...ted States in March 1990, I continued to spread the paradoxist movement to English speaking countriers by publishing the contraried anti-volume Non ...
...re card and certain games award prizes to players for matching no numbers or achieving no pattern. Bingo is often used as an instructional tool in American primary schools and in teaching English as a foreign language in many countries. It became increasingly more popular across the UK with more purpose-built bingo halls. Keno is an important variation of bingo game,...
...d out of the Simpson household in July 1936. Nor was Wallis the Prince's first American liaison. He contemplated marrying one, Thelma Furness, ... ...he goings-on, reported noting almost until the King's abdication. The European and American press, in contrast, provided extensive coverage of the ... ...ver the heads of his constitutional advisers. "The last time when this happened in English history was when Charles I raised His Standard at the be... ...hat laymen and the media know about them. Yet, the truth is different. The English physicist Stephen William Hawking proved that in the vic... ...ser/gr/public/bh_home.html Bolivar, Simon Simon Bolivar (1783-1830) is a Latin American folk hero, revered for having been a revolutionary free... ...rewd despotism." The National Geographic describes how: "William Tudor, the American consul at Lima, wrote in 1826 of the 'deep hypocrisy' o... ... successful caesarean section in the previous 50 years. The book was translated to English. An Edom, Virginia doctor, Jessee Bennet, recorded in ... ...m/billh/julian.html Canada Following a series of rebellions, the British North American colonies achieved self-government in 1848. But the econ... ...ite in Latin is "candicans". Pure white, bright, shining - is "candidus". Hence the English words "candid" and "candidate". The word "candidus" is d...
...gy of Environmentalism XI. The Invention of Lying: Fact and Truth XII. Hostel: The American Hostel XIII. Inceptions and Its Errors XIV. Aliens „R ... ... cultivates a False Self of a jazz giant in the making and the author of the Great American Novel but he is neither and he bitterly knows it. Even ... ...most heart rending smile when embarrassed or endangered. He is a caricature of the American dream: ambitious, driven, winsome, well versed in the m... ...e and desist with his activities. "It is MY brain" - he screams and, with a typical American finale, "I will see you in court". Craig responds: "But... ...s engineer would run afoul of Gödel's theorem. Note - Turing Machines In 1936 an American (Alonzo Church) and a Briton (Alan M. Turing) published... ...nch. Certified Financial Analyst by Brainbench. Full proficiency in Hebrew and in English. Business Experience 1980 to 1983 Founder and co-owne... ...onot, Tel-Aviv, 1997 "The Suffering of Being Kafka" (electronic book of Hebrew and English Short Fiction), Prague, 1998-2004 "The Macedonian Econom...
...fused to turn on the meter. “I will make you a special price” – he bawled in broken English. He kept his word. I climbed the winding stairs to the... ...s if for emphasis: “No one wanted the Jews. The British sealed off Palestine. The Americans imposed immigration quotas. The Jews merely abused our... ...! I don’t understand a word you are saying, even though it sounds suspiciously like English. You lost me back in 1941.” She smiled and it was like... ...Hitler made his Vice- Chancellor, von Papen, publish an open letter addressed to the American Chamber of Commerce and saying that Jews were safe in G... .... “Read” – she pointed at an official looking document – “It’s a report from the American Embassy in Berlin. See what it says about Hitler? ‘Hitle... ... I guess she ought to.” – I assured him – “Her German is bound to be better than my English.” Dan made a skeptical face and fired up one of his l... ... reach a separate peace in the West. We should have never fought our brothers, the English and we should have signed a peace agreement with France, ... ...eing said, we have tried everything. We sent couriers with peace offers to both the Americans and the British. We released prisoners from concentrat... ...ly: “You’d be surprised.” – he exclaims – “The problem is that we won’t give the Americans iron-clad guarantees regarding the fate of Hitler. If w...
...ure; but she was still a woman down deep even if she denied it just as his American passport and name-change made him abstain from bits of himself. A... .... It was the blind leading the blind, he thought. "You do know some English, don't you?" he asked. "No," she said. He could imagine the p... ...sed land he did not expect that even if he were to live somewhere in "Euro-American Bangkok" (Banglampool, Silom, and Sukumvit roads with their seven ... ... Then he obfuscated. "Didn't you read in an encyclopedia one time that the American president, Abraham Lincoln, said, 'In the civil war it is quite po... ... airport, she would continue to bury herself in comic books and the latest American sounds when not engrossed in her French palaver with the cassette ... ...oying the conversation. "What are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against... ...t are they: these snowmen? Are they just Englishmen?" "That but also Americans who didn't want to fight against King George... Frenchmen, of co... ... pulled out of his book bag the Lao classic, "Thao Nok Kaba Phuak which in English meant "The White Nightjar." The back cover said that it depicted t... ...Student Weekly published by the Bangkok Post but attempts at understanding English were to no avail. The sun and wind together shot him with tranquil...
... 73 19. Words etc (The return to innocence) ‘BY Cape Maclear standards the day is quite normal,’ says Peter in his funny English. English not... ...ians. Peter looks fourteen but he claims to be over twenty-one with three mouths to feed. Right now he’s trying to convince two American backpackers... ...s, everyone seems to be minding their own business. Directly behind me two Caucasian men playing Bawo are busy conversing in English and Afrikaan... ... a spliff of cannabis is lit and they are all laughing like old friends. I shake my head. Peter has finally convinced the two Americans. They head...
... He is member of the Mathematics Association in Romania (1990), and of the American Association on Mathematics (1983). The literary debut of Flore... ...Craiova. The majority of his works were, fully or in part, translated into English, French, Spanish, Portuguese, some of them having a third edition i... .... Merwin, Kenneth Yasuda, Donald Eulert who was, until 1974, lecturer of American Literature at The "A.L.I.Cuza" University from Yassy (Romania). In... ...uine haiku in every issue. Many of the Romanian ones are also presented in English and French. Florentin Smarandache is an authentic poet of haiku... ...tin Smarandache is an authentic poet of haiku, whom we present also to the English and French speaking readers through the version of Miss Rodica Stef... ...to be printed, gave an extra chance, by making it accessible to readers in English and in French. The endeavor to render the poems and the foreword, f...
...here the shadow falls! [Enter Benedict Arnold. He is in the Unifwm of an American General. He limps.] Both Choruses. A light thing is man and his... ...erious than any since the Duke Brought back King Charles. Two true- born Englishmen, If you'll accept my hand, shall this day place I A jewel in... ...ive up the scene, give up, ye sordid - rocks, The last of Arnold in his English home, Which in your bosom lives for evermore, A deathless picture... ...m lives for evermore, A deathless picture; England cast it out Not being English, and it shivered on, Coiling about the world, till it was caught ... ...' Where proud men pass me by: and now and then I catch a glimpse of some American, - A former pal, a former enemy; - It is the same, both pal and ... ...not repel a foreigner, - TREASON AND DEATH One they had cause to envy? English- men Are very unforgiving of defeat. It is your glory, the imped... ... impediment: So gluttonous are soldiers of reward - So sporting-keen are Englishmen for fame. Arnold. It may be so. Mrs. Arnold. Your temperament... ...r's drunkenness, Watching his face. [Enter seruant moth the coat of the American unifmm, and the swwd-knots.] Thou one unbroken link with all the ... ...ritish uni- fomn, the servant assisting, and puts on the coat of his old American unijomn.1 Never weep, dear wife. I seek the truth you teach me. ...
...t had seemed so real! She was relieved to see she only had on her good old American short Tasmanian Devil flannels. She stretched as she got up and he... ...red at one time to ogle the exhibit Therese had wangled compliments of the American Numismatic Society—a collection of coins and medals from around th... ...nown enough of these in his life to know one when he saw one. Ifreet. This American President, Bill Clinton, needed to learn a little self-control and... ...s going to keep her on her P's and Q's grammatically. Like a stodgy stuffy English professor. The description didn't fit him by a long shot, of course... ...nterloper?" "Nefa—What?" Justice grimaced at Therese. "Is he even speaking English? Or is he just cursing me out in a nice way?" "I think it's probabl... ...from Guyana." "And our Dad—" "Auntie's brother is Puerto Rican and African American." "Mom says variety is the spice of life," Zee finished. "Your mot... ...handle her? It was intolerable and Mr. Avatar, unlike Lundquist, the crass American to whom Therese had previously alluded, should have known better. ...
...around, his voice filled with paranoia. “There’s not a person in this place that speaks English,” Brand lied. “You can’t be too careful,” Kensey ... ...e contrary. Before he expired he divulged the time and place of the Russian, Chinese, and American meeting. Anna handed him a note. Brand looked at... ... open. I know that it’s no consolation, but your husband deserves a medal, he was a great American.” “And is that what they’ll say when you turn up ... ...ree will.” “Why do you assume that?” “I assume nothing, he and Ramsey said it in plain English. Free will is an illusion, and freedom must be com... ... into an office with military mementos, plagues, and medals hanging on the walls, plus an American flag standing behind his desk. The General offe... ... The remaining Generals each selected a bottle from the tray, while Zlatamir and the two Americans waited courteously until they were finished, and ... ...emained silent, and poured themselves another drink. Ramsey wondered if they understood English, by their reaction he concluded that they didn’t. ... ...ieve that everyone is safe. He would never go public with an attempt on his life.” “You Americans are stupid and arrogant, and above all careless.”... ... and saw that the driver looked Mexican. “Habla Espnaol?” “Perfectamente. Pero, I prefer English,” he answered. “Are you available?” “Si.” “I tho...
...ntradicted everything his contempo- - Perhaps one of the best known Native American traditions is the Council Circle. Here, the members sit in a cir... ...couples, whose numbers have been declining for decades as a proportion of American households, have finally slipped into a minority, according to an... ...o the New England Journal of Medicine, “Annu- - ally, more than 46 million Americans, ages 15-54, suffer from depressive episodes.” And the Archives ... ...onto, Canada, London, Eng- - land, and Sydney, Australia. It is printed in English, He- - brew, and Russian, and is also available on the Internet, a... ...srael time. The lessons are simultaneously translated into six languages: English, Russian, Spanish, german, Italian, and Turkish. In the near futu...
...r the strangest of all empires.’ Macauley, 1833 On New Years Eve 1600, that most esteemed of English monarchs, Queen Elizabeth I, read the docu... ... only three years old. Rosita had come to Cornwall some forty years ago from Spain, following her English soldier husband who had been fighting with... ... ‘Breathe in Helen, here she comes!’ Helen was enveloped by the green wet leaves of that ancient English forest of her childhood and Gavin was hold... ... the short flight of steps leading to the verandah and Helen heard him inform Gavin in his pidgin English that the memsahibs had arrived from Englan... ...ken as only Gavin could speak them, brought back memories of their first meeting in those ancient English woods and Helen recalled how deeply she ha... ...avy riding skirt for a divided doeskin garment (copied from women’s riding fashion in the former American colonies) and knee-high leather boots. Thi... ...ritish have left us very little leeway on this sub-continent, so we must concentrate on our South American colonies,’ he laughingly told Gavin. A f... ...riage and they would have consented, but my father discovered that François was part Huron, North American Indian from his mother’s side and like al... ...fore he sailed for Canada, we made love and since then no man has ever been able to match my part American-Indian lover,’ whispered the lovely Comte...