Every time I come to the states an American asks me if I live in an igloo. ... My cousin came up to visit me last year and she said that we drive really nice automobiles. ... Canada is part British and French and we derive our words and grammar from them. ... Our grammar is very much like the British. ...
Don't get me wrong computers are revolutionizing our way of living. ... The frustration of not writing a rough draft and relying on my Dell for all my needs, reminds me that newer isn't always better. ... Computers run most schools and companies but we still don't learn to type in grammar school. ...
Liberation linguistics vs. ... The project is the foundation of A Comprehensive Grammar of the English Language, a widely used reference grammar using a descriptive approach, (CV Quirk, online) 2.2 Braj B. ... Liberation linguistics vs. ... Kachru, on the other hand refers to Quirk's position as deficit linguistics, a term which has been used when describing language learners poor competence in using vocabulary, grammar and phonology of a language. ...
Capitalization, punctuation, good spelling and proper grammar are falling to their imminent demise as the evolution of this new acronym riddled language, known as "Tweetspeak" takes center stage. ... In the article "Twitter vs. ... However so much of texting and tweeting is manipulating the phonetic sounds of a word, and not manipulating the spelling of a word, that makes me question Crystal's argument that children wouldn't be good at texting without literary awareness. ...
My interpretation of this author's thesis was an act of a process: The process of Good vs. ... On page 137 the tengol says, " You have come to me because you attacked the monsters in the brackish marsh and tarn, and this availed you nothing. Therefore you come to me for advice and admonishment, as a child to his father, saying what shall I do now for all my plans have failed me." ... This is how he overcomes and kills Wiglif: " Verily I saw him stand astride the body of Buliwyf, and swing his sword and Wiglif, and Herger slew Wiglif, who fell down on the table of Rothgar- This was my most...
The following selections are testimonies from England and Wales collected by Parliamentary commissions who began to investigate the industrial employment of women and children in the early 1840s. Inspectors visited mills, mines and shops taking evidence from workers to see ways in which the Industri...
