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  2. Pleonasm - Wikipedia

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    The full line goes: "And every mother's child is gonna spy, to see if reindeer really know how to fly". One can furthermore argue that the word "mother" is included for the purpose of lyrical flow, adding two syllables, which make the line sound complete, as "every child" would be too short to fit the lyrical/rhyme scheme.)

  3. Wikipedia : Reference desk/Archives/Language/2019 September 5

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    Language links are at the top of the page across from the title.

  4. Obfuscation - Wikipedia

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    Obfuscation is the obscuring of the intended meaning of communication by making the message difficult to understand, usually with confusing and ambiguous language. The obfuscation might be either unintentional or intentional (although intent usually is connoted), and is accomplished with circumlocution (talking around the subject), the use of jargon (technical language of a profession), and ...

  5. Simplified Spelling Board - Wikipedia

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    The Simplified Spelling Board was announced on March 11, 1906, with Andrew Carnegie funding the organization, to be headquartered in New York City. The New York Times noted that Carnegie was convinced that "English might be made the world language of the future" and an influence leading to universal peace, but that this role was obstructed by its "contradictory and difficult spelling". [1]

  6. Words are overrated. Here’s why we’re addicted to ‘silent ...

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    The lack of spoken words in a silent review, which requires an audience to infer whether a reviewer likes a product or not, may seem silly. However, the same kind of nonverbal communication occurs ...

  7. Moral Injury - The Huffington Post

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    Some troops leave the battlefield injured. Others return from war with mental wounds. Yet many of the 2 million Iraq and Afghanistan veterans suffer from a condition the Defense Department refuses to acknowledge: Moral injury.

  8. Parents are stumped over first grader’s math question - can ...

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    Math curriculums have been changing in the school system over the last few years, with many parents claiming that “new” math is too difficult.. A mother named Tiesha Sanders recently took to ...

  9. Satiric misspelling - Wikipedia

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    A satiric misspelling is an intentional misspelling of a word, phrase or name for a rhetorical purpose. This can be achieved with intentional malapropism (e.g. replacing erection for election ), enallage (giving a sentence the wrong form, eg. "we was robbed!"), or simply replacing a letter with another letter (for example, in English, k ...