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Some non-English speaking countries in Europe use the word seminar (e.g. German Seminar, Slovenian seminar, Polish seminarium) to refer to a university class that includes a term paper or project, as opposed to a lecture class (e.g. German Vorlesung, Slovenian predavanje, Polish wykład). This does not correspond to the English use of the term.
Web conferencing is used as an umbrella term for various types of online conferencing and collaborative services including webinars (web seminars), webcasts, and web meetings. Sometimes it may be used also in the more narrow sense of the peer-level web meeting context, in an attempt to disambiguate it from the other types known as collaborative ...
The first to be translated into English was Book XI, published by Hogarth Press in 1977 with a specially written preface. To date (2015), seventeen of the seminars have been published in French, several of which have also appeared in English translation. The remaining seminars have all been established by Miller and are currently awaiting ...
Teleseminars can be free or have a cost associated with participation for the students. The cost will vary depending on the content being discussed and the organization hosting the call. Despite the participation fee, the advantage for students is this medium does not require the hassle and expense of traveling to a live seminar.
In recent years, digital RSVPs have become common, particularly for wedding invitations. [5] In this context, the initialism seems to have loosened its tie to its original meaning. Some people use the phrase "Please RSVP", [6] which is a case of RAS syndrome (redundancy) or a pleonasm, as "s'il vous plait" means "please". [7]
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Grammatically, the word represents a gerund of a verb with the triconsonantal root d-ʕ-w (د-ع-و) meaning variously "to summon" or "to invite". A Muslim who practices daʿwah , either as a religious worker or in a volunteer community effort, is called a dāʿī ( داعي , plural duʿāh دعاة [dʊˈʕæː] ).