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An example of a class of books banned in Australia that "promote, incite or instruct in matters of crime or violence". [20] [21] American Psycho: Bret Easton Ellis: 1991 1991 1992 (ages 18+) *Unknown* (younger than 18) Novel Sale and purchase was banned in the Australian State of Queensland. Now available in public libraries and for sale to ...
Notable examples of constrained comics: . Gustave Verbeek's The Upside Downs of Little Lady Lovekins and Old Man Muffaroo, a weekly 6-panel comic strip in which the first half of the story was illustrated and captioned right-side-up, then the reader would turn the page up-side-down, and the inverted illustrations with additional captions describing the scenes told the second half of the story ...
815 American speeches in English; 816 American letters in English; 817 American humor and satire in English; 818 American miscellaneous writings in English; 819 No longer used—formerly Puzzle activities; 820 English and Old English literatures. 820 English and Old English (Anglo-Saxon) literatures; 821 English poetry; 822 English drama; 823 ...
E-Prime (short for English-Prime or English Prime, [1] sometimes É or E′) denotes a restricted form of English in which authors avoid all forms of the verb to be.. E-Prime excludes forms such as be, being, been, present tense forms (am, is, are), past tense forms (was, were) along with their negative contractions (isn't, aren't, wasn't, weren't), and nonstandard contractions such as ain't ...
For example, false advertising can be punished and misleading advertising may be prohibited. [28] Commercial advertising may be restricted in ways that other speech can't if a substantial governmental interest is advanced, and such restriction supports that interest as well as not being overly broad. [29]
When we speak of English as a foreign language (EFL), we are referring to the role of English for learners in a country where English is not spoken by the majority (what Braj Kachru calls the expanding circle). English as a second language (ESL) refers to the role of English for learners in an English-speaking country, i.e. usually immigrants ...
An example of a sociolect difference, based on social grouping, is the zero copula in African American Vernacular English. It occurs in a specific ethnic group but in all areas of the United States. It occurs in a specific ethnic group but in all areas of the United States.
Attempto Controlled English (ACE) is a controlled natural language, i.e. a subset of standard English with a restricted syntax and restricted semantics described by a small set of construction and interpretation rules. [1] It has been under development at the University of Zurich since 1995. In 2013, ACE version 6.7 was announced. [2]