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Posted by on Oct 28, 2011 in Languages | 0 comments

American rapper finally rhymes the word ‘orange’

American rapper finally rhymes the word ‘orange’
Who says you can’t rhyme the word orange? Check out the video at 5:10, where he pro­ceeds to do just that. Eminem describes how he can ‘bend’ a word, and thus work around gram­mat­i­cal or artic­u­la­tory chal­lenges in spo­ken lan­guage to cre­ate new and alter­na­tive mean­ings. It’s...
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Posted by on Oct 3, 2011 in Career, Languages | 0 comments

Politeness in the Workplace

Politeness in the Workplace
The work­place is a dynamic envi­ron­ment that bal­ances a vari­ety of per­son­al­i­ties and sit­u­a­tions, from relaxed to highly stress­ful. A typ­i­cal work­day may vary for most, but regard­less of the work envi­ron­ment, it remains true that polite­ness in the work­place is a must...
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Posted by on Apr 13, 2008 in Languages | 1 comment

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 2

Are They Talk­ing About Me? What are the ide­o­log­i­cal impli­ca­tions of choos­ing an offi­cial lan­guage? What kind of under­ly­ing belief sys­tem does it betray? A major marker of cul­ture and iden­tity, lan­guage sep­a­rates worlds of expe­ri­ence. And when it’s not your own,...
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Posted by on Apr 11, 2008 in Languages | 3 comments

Señorita Ruth on: English Only Pt. 1

Nations & Lan­guage It’s easy to trace and under­stand the con­nec­tion between the ideas of “one nation” and “one lan­guage.” These sim­ple asso­ci­a­tions have out­lined the lan­guage poli­cies of west­ern Euro­pean coun­tries from the mid­dle of the 19th cen­tury for­ward....
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