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    very beginning when the first words were uttered‚ the ability to communicate has played an important role in our world. Words can hurt‚ heal‚ create‚ build and transform. Language is obviously a vital tool that unites people. Every nation has their dialect and specific slang that made them unique. The variations depend also on the age categories. In American society people of each generation have been adding new meanings and new words into the conversations in order to reflect the experiences‚ beliefs

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    Wangkajunga is a member of a large Pama-Nyungan family that belongs to the northwestern Wati Subgroup of the Western Desert language in Australia. Pama-Nyungan family was identified coined by O’Grady‚ Wurm and Hale along with a non-Pama-Nyungan family (Blake 1987). Wati Subgroup includes neighboring to and closely related to Wangkajunga Yulparija‚ Manyjilyjarra‚ and Kukatja languages (Capell 1962; O’Grady‚ Voegelin and Voegelin 1996; Wurm 1972; Oates and Oates 1970). O’Grady‚ Voegelin and Voegelin

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    The Deception of Wild Animals Throughout life‚ it may be examined that amongst varied species of organisms‚ there will always be a few who are singled out due to varied differences. For example‚ there was a study about how lizards that adopted the same hues as their environment survived against their predatory species‚ whereas lizards of vivid colors were ultimately‚ depleted from their environment. This process is more commonly known as natural selection. However‚ one might wonder if the same

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    CONTENTS A. The overview of Languages in the United States……………………………………………………………. 2 B. Official language status…………………………………………………………………………………………………. 3 C. Immigrant languages…………………………………………………………………………………………………….. 6 D. American English and the development…………………………………………………………………………. 7 E. Regional Differences………………………………………………………………………………………………………. 8 F. American English vs. British English………………………………………………………………………………… 10 I- Pronunciation and Spelling………………………………………………………………………………

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    Changes Some short stories are designed to teach lessons to the people who read them. They teach lessons about life‚ love‚ and growing up. People can learn lessons by reading short stories that where the main characters discover something about life and about themselves. There Character and the way the use of actions‚ words‚ or thoughts carry throughout the story can relate to many realistic personas. In Toni Cade Bambara’s short story‚ The Lesson‚ the author presents a lesson to be learned. The

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    Dialects refers to how words are pronounced. Your demographic location and social class can affect your dialect; how you pronounce and say certain words. I am from Texas and when I speak you can easily hear my southern accent so I identify with other texans. Also‚ jargon’s that are used can help classify individuals into a category. But I think to answer your question language helps to define individuals easily because when a person speaks it is very easy to detect where they might be from and also

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    separateness‚ working class‚ language/dialect‚ anger. Facts Quotes/facts Explanation/effects Content 1. The poem imagines a BBC newsreader explaining that‚ if he read the news in Glaswegian dialect‚ people would not believe it. He says there is a right way to speak and spell‚ and that people who cannot do so clearly don’t know the truth/ can’t be trusted. 2. Although the poem says these bad things about Scottish dialect – it is written in Scottish dialect. ‘yooz doant no thi trooth yirsellz

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    audience. Broad distinctions have commonly been drawn between formal and informal levels of usage. Dictionaries sometimes provide usage labels to indicate the contexts in which certain words are generally used. Such labels include colloquial‚ slang‚ dialect‚ nonstandard‚ and archaic. See also: Diction E.B. White’s Diction and Metaphors in "Death of a Pig" Nonstandard English and Standard English Plain Style‚ Middle Style‚ and Grand Style Style Usage Examples and Observations: "Each of

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    dialectology‚ and the sociological perspective‚ or modern dialectology. Dialectology as such is the study of dialects of a language with a focus on their distribution (regional and/or social) and characteristic linguistic features. modern dialectology or sociolinguistics is used generally for the study of the relationship between language and society. Traditional and modern dialectology study dialects with a difference in scientific focus: Traditional Dialectology | Modern Dialectology | Since 19th

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    Armenian 2%‚ other 6% Bahrain Arabic (Arabiyya) English‚ Farsi‚ Urdu Bangladesh Bengali (Bangla) English Bhutan Bhutanese (Dzongkha) The Bhotes (the principal ethnic majority 50%) speak various Tibetan dialects like Tshanglakha and Khenkha‚ Nepalese speak various Nepalese dialects like Lhotsamkha. Brunei Darussalam Malay‚ English Chinese Cambodia Khmer spoken by more than 95% of the population (Khmer language is influenced by spoken and written Thai) some French still spoken‚ English

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