Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
Even today, many postcolonial states continue to use colonial languages in their public institutions, even though these languages are not spoken by the majority of their residents. [39] For example, the South African justice system still relies primarily on English and Afrikaans as its primary languages, even though most South Africans ...
Standard: We dissected the eye of a bull in biology class today. Probably non-standard: We bisected the eye of a bull in biology class today. born and borne. Born is when a living creature enters the world through the birthing process. Borne means to carry, realize, or bear something. [26] Standard: I was born on March 6, 1982.
many figurative senses derived from baseball, e.g. off one's base (crazy), to get to first base (esp. in neg. constr., to get a first important result); more recently (slang), a metaphor for one of three different stages in making out (q.v.) – see baseball metaphors for sex; more s.v. home run: bash
Today Dorman says 44% of languages have grammatical gender systems, which can help ease communication for people speaking and understanding a language. "Grammatical gender is a classification ...
In politics, there is a dirty, ugly, open secret that the word ‘poverty’ — the topic of poverty — is a taboo subject. In the first presidential debate , there were no questions about ...
The Collins English Dictionary defines an Ugly American as "a stereotypical representation of an American tourist as a brash and insensitive philistine." [ 13 ] The Merriam-Webster dictionary’s definition is: "an American in a foreign country whose behavior is offensive to the people of that country."
Mock language is defined as the action of imitating and mimicking another language, incorporating grammatical structures, expressions, and terminology that is not native to the speaker. Speakers of mock Spanish reasoned their usage of it as a signifier of being exposed to Spanish, to incite amusement, or to claim regional authenticity to ...
The first chapter approaches the Greek conception of beauty, trying to discern by opposition what is ugly, and ugliness is associated with the lack of harmony according to ancient Greeks. Ugliness is not only in the physical but also in the moral sense, Christianity denies to some extent the existence of ugliness, since the whole universe is a ...