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  2. Eskimo words for snow - Wikipedia

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    Languages in the Inuit and Yupik language groups add suffixes to words to express the same concepts expressed in English and many other languages by means of compound words, phrases, and even entire sentences. One can create a practically unlimited number of new words in the Eskimoan languages on any topic, not just snow, and these same ...

  3. International Corpus of English - Wikipedia

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    The father of the project, Sidney Greenbaum, insisted on the primacy of the spoken word, following Randolph Quirk and Jan Svartvik's collaboration on the original London-Lund Corpus (LLC). This emphasis on word-for-word transcription marks out ICE from many other corpora, including those containing, e.g. parliamentary or legal paraphrases.

  4. List of gairaigo and wasei-eigo terms - Wikipedia

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    Gairaigo are Japanese words originating from, or based on, foreign-language, generally Western, terms.These include wasei-eigo (Japanese pseudo-anglicisms).Many of these loanwords derive from Portuguese, due to Portugal's early role in Japanese-Western interaction; Dutch, due to the Netherlands' relationship with Japan amidst the isolationist policy of sakoku during the Edo period; and from ...

  5. Masaru Emoto - Wikipedia

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    Emoto claimed that water was a "blueprint for our reality" and that emotional "energies" and "vibrations" could change its physical structure. [14] His water crystal experiments consisted of exposing water in glasses to various words, pictures, or music, then freezing it and examining the ice crystals' aesthetic properties with microscopic photography. [9]

  6. Antarctic English - Wikipedia

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    Antarctic English is a variety of the English language spoken by people living on the continent of Antarctica and within the subantarctic islands. [1]: vii Spoken primarily by scientists and workers in the Antarctic tourism industry, [2] it consists of various unique words and is spoken with a unique accent.

  7. Weather Words: Winter Storm Vs Ice Storm - AOL

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    An ice storm is when sleet and freezing rain is expected.This can create impossible travel conditions and many other hazards. Even a small amount of ice can turn roads into ice skating rinks, coat ...

  8. List of literary works by number of translations - Wikipedia

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    The Book of Mormon: See Origin of the Book of Mormon: 1830: 115 [15] English: 13 Asterix: René Goscinny & Albert Uderzo: 1959–present: 115 [16] (not all volumes are available in all languages) French: 14 The Quran: See History of the Quran: 650 >114 [17] [18] Classical Arabic: 15 The Way to Happiness: L. Ron Hubbard: 1980: 114 [19] English ...

  9. Linguistic relativity and the color naming debate - Wikipedia

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    If a language contains five terms, then it contains terms for both green and yellow. If a language contains six terms, then it contains a term for blue. If a language contains seven terms, then it contains a term for brown. If a language contains eight or more terms, then it contains terms for purple, pink, orange or gray.