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Concerns over the environment and terrorism have not only affected how people lived in the past decade but also their language, with "global warming" and "9/11" topping a list of the most used words of the 2000s. The Global Language Monitor, which uses...
Tags: Los Angeles, Linguistics, Truthiness, Barack Obama, Chinglish, Bailout, Global Language Monitor, Human communication, Language, Environment
A couple of developments erupted this week to let us know Hispanics have not quite earned full acknowledgement of such oddball concepts as civil rights and basic dignity. First, in New Mexico, a hotel owner informed his Hispanic workers that, henceforth,...
Tags: latino, hispanic, Larry Whitten, New Mexico, hotel owners, language, Dallas, traffic ticket, Spanish
Writing has not always been one of favorite ways in which to kill time. It took multiple thought sessions before I started to realize what our ways to communicate with each other meant to me, but as I got older I could see the potential in it. Whether...
Tags: Human, communication, language, embrace writing
Since nobody uses it, why do we have the word "ouch," the sound you make when you hurt yourself? Where did this word come from? There is no doubt, back in the mists of time, when small men with giant reproductive organs walked the earth looking for women...
The spoken language is a barrier battled by every individual in the social world on a daily bases. Language is perceived in different ways by different people and therefore...
Tags: communication, perception, relationships, college, student, language
Language is the most influential device of power that man has created. It is the mechanism which provides daily life in a social world never ending change, discussion, and view...
Tags: socialogy, social, life, study, college, language, literature
It was quiet day met with vacuous reflection of his day of work. He was walking home, unaware of the cataclysm about to make his aquaintenance on that fateful walk home. It would be his last day he would ever work again. It would also be the last day...
Tags: CPS, allnews, two teenage thugs, brain, frontal lobe, personality, motor function, problem solving, spontaneity, memory, language, initiation, judgement, impulse control, confidence, Steve Gator, Romford, Essex, seizures, brain damage, and social and sexual behavior
The experiences of a Pakistani national Muhammad Ahmad Munir in Montreal make for painful reading. It seemed that the bus driver refused to speak in English even though she did understand English and could converse in that language. When this gentleman...
Tags: language, bus passengers
That's what the headline would be if some scientists had their way. Delays in brain and language development may be the result of television watching before the age of 2. Researchers from the University of Washington found that even having...
Tags: television, babies, brain, development, language, LiveScience.com, Dmitri Christakis
Rumors are swirling about the health care reform, debating what is real and not real. Democrats deny health care reform would have "death panels" which would pass judgement on which citizens would deserve to live. Now opponents of health care...
Tags: end-of-life voluntary counseling, abortions, school readiness, nutrition, anger management, cognitive, language, social, government funded programs, emotional, and motor skills, other parenting issues, welfare services, unplanned pregnancies, pro-life forum, home health care, Americans, Obama campaign, health care reform, health care reform opponents