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French for Beginners: être or avoir in the passé composé
Hello all, it's finally time for a new episode of French on a Windowsill! Episode 13 builds onto the last two, which were about the passé composé in general and about reflexive verbs. Exciting stuff....
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"We simply do not tolerate people who are disrespectful to others."
You're the organizer of a meetup group for people who are interested in public speaking. You want to have strict rules for your group about being nice to other members. You're writing about one of...
View ArticleWord of the Week: Tick-Tock
Tick-tock: Journalism jargon for a story that recounts events in chronological order, as if accompanied by the soundtrack of a ticking clock. From my Twitter feed: An Oklahoma way of life: A tick-tock...
View ArticleThe Afterlife Ethnographic Survey
Franz Boas has a facebook page, whose contents suggest that his acumen is undimmed by death. A couple of weeks ago, one of his facebook friends asked this: When Freud gave his famous "introductory...
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TOO MANY HANNIBALS.
Over a year ago I got David Abulafia's The Great Sea: A Human History of the Mediterranean (see this post), and after setting it aside for many months I've picked it up again (by which I mean "I've...
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Biannual Arabic linguistics journal to be launched - Arab News
Biannual Arabic linguistics journal to be launchedArab NewsArabic Linguistics, a new scientific journal that will appear every six months, will be launched by King Abdullah International Center for...
View ArticleYo, what’s up?
I’ve been the recipient of hundreds of emails from students over the years. Some of them have been quite polite and well-written, but quite a few are informal to the point where they are verging on the...
View ArticleThen: the meaning changes
A student wrote to me asking about the meaning and placement of then in this sentence.The product is then designed with this target price in mind.As I was explaining that then could be resultative...
View Article5/28/13 - don
1. (Verb) Put on (clothes). 2. (Noun) A university professor, especially a high-ranking member of the faculty at Oxford or Cambridge University. 3. (Noun) The head of an organized crime ring, a capo in...
View ArticleWord of the day: Kangaroo
Over the next few, our words of the day originate from European exploration of the seas, starting with a sailor who also displayed great skill as a map maker and writer - Captain James Cook (born in...
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Companies creating tech apps in regional languages to tap surging mobile user...
Economic TimesCompanies creating tech apps in regional languages to tap surging mobile user ...Economic TimesCurrently, about 45 million Indians use local language applications on the Internet. Arvind...
View ArticleHype Built on a Mirage
By now the story is well known across the investing world. This week, Japanese conglomerate Sony saw a blip of news drive shares higher and then ultimately vanish. Even to a novice investor this...
View ArticleTabu budaya di Indonesia – bagian kedua
Seperti yang terakhir kita bicarakan ini di artikel bagian pertama inilah saatnya kita melanjutkan diskusi tentang isu tabu budaya di Indonesia. Diskusi ini akan dibagi jadi empat bagian... 1....
View ArticleCultural taboos in Indonesia – part two
As we previously discussed this issue in the first Lexio article, it is time to continue our discussion about the issue - cultural taboos in Indonesia. It will be divided into four sections. So, here...
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Is internet English debasing the language? Not IMHO - The Guardian (blog)
The Guardian (blog)Is internet English debasing the language? Not IMHOThe Guardian (blog)McCrum laments "the violence the internet does to the English language", though from my point of view, here in...
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A more expressive Puppet configuration language debuts - The H
A more expressive Puppet configuration language debutsThe HAs part of the release of Puppet 3.2.1, Puppet Labs has added a programming language aimed at providing administrators with greater...
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Fears Welsh is in decline in heartlands - Daily Post North Wales
Daily Post North WalesFears Welsh is in decline in heartlandsDaily Post North WalesMs Jones welcomed Education Minister Leighton Andrews announcement of a new £750,000 fund designed to enable and...
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Bilingual Poetry: 4 English and Spanish Children Books
School is almost finished and you might be looking for activities to do with your small children. If you are raising a bilingual kid, here are some English – Spanish children books you can use during...
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Prepositions: The super-handy and horribly confusing widgets of language -...
The Week MagazinePrepositions: The super-handy and horribly confusing widgets of languageThe Week Magazinerepositions — connecting words such as to, from, and of — are basic bits of language with clear...
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