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  2. Jabberwocky sentence - Wikipedia

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    A Jabberwocky sentence is a type of sentence of interest in neurolinguistics. Jabberwocky sentences take their name from the language of Lewis Carroll's well-known poem " Jabberwocky ". In the poem, Carroll uses correct English grammar and syntax, but many of the words are made up and merely suggest meaning.

  3. Nakam - Wikipedia

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    Nakam (Hebrew: נקם, 'revenge') was a paramilitary organisation of about fifty Holocaust survivors who, after 1945, sought revenge for the murder of six million Jews during the Holocaust. Led by Abba Kovner , the group sought to kill six million Germans in a form of indiscriminate revenge, " a nation for a nation ". [ 1 ]

  4. Revenge porn - Wikipedia

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    Laws banning revenge porn have been slow to emerge. [70] Contributing factors include a lack of understanding about the gravity of the problem, free speech concerns, [71] belief that existing law provides adequate protection, [71] a lack of care, historically, for women's issues, and "misunderstandings of First Amendment doctrine" (Citron ...

  5. Cycle of violence - Wikipedia

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    The term cycle of violence refers to repeated and dangerous acts of violence as a cyclical pattern, [1] associated with high emotions and doctrines of retribution or revenge. [citation needed] The pattern, or cycle, repeats and can happen many times during a relationship. [1]

  6. Revenge - Wikipedia

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    Revenge is a label that is ascribed based on perceivers’ attributions for the act. Revenge is an inference, regardless of whether the individuals making the inference are the harmdoers themselves, the injured parties, or outsiders. Because revenge is an inference, various individuals can disagree on whether the same action is revenge or not ...

  7. List of linguistic example sentences - Wikipedia

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    A famous example for lexical ambiguity is the following sentence: "Wenn hinter Fliegen Fliegen fliegen, fliegen Fliegen Fliegen hinterher.", meaning "When flies fly behind flies, then flies fly in pursuit of flies." [40] [circular reference] It takes advantage of some German nouns and corresponding verbs being homonymous. While not noticeable ...

  8. Self-defence in English law - Wikipedia

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    But like arrest, it does have to be to prevent crime or escape. You don’t have to retreat [27] (although that is a factor in assessing reasonableness [28]), or wait for the first blow, [29] but must not take revenge. Revenge is evidence of unreasonableness [30] and seeking confrontation removes the defence. [31]

  9. Revanchism - Wikipedia

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    In Albert Bettannier's La Tache Noire (The Black Stain, 1887) French students are taught about the provinces of Alsace-Lorraine, taken by Germany in 1871.. Revanchism (French: revanchisme, from revanche, "revenge") is the political manifestation of the will to reverse the territorial losses which are incurred by a country, frequently after a war or after a social movement.