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    denied my accusation, and then aggressively blamed me for making up the whole story. But right after I repeated their every single word without any hesitation, they were finally sorry for what they had done to me. I explained to my classmates that there was nothing wrong to be born with an Asian accent, that we were all English leaners, so why we had to say bad words about each other instead of helping one other, and that we all came here in order to carry out our American dreams, so please…

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    Don’t Get Caught Making These 10 Common Writing Mistakes, Or Else I know, right? Rules sometimes hinder creativity. This is the reason why some writers don’t like to follow rules on grammar and sentence construction. It’s so hard to play with words if you have to think about the restrictions. But if you 're writing a book or a formal paper, then you need to stick to the rules. There’s no other way to do it since you 're writing for a larger audience and much more formal audience. Now, if you…

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    the subject. Use of Slang involves the use of words that are not part of any standard language. It involves newly coining words and phrases. Slang is specific to each language and religion. Most of the phrases would not actually be taught in a formal class. An example is the French saying “Ça y est !” John Elkhoury (2014, Nov) “Ça y est (pronounced: sigh-ay) is a little French expression that has two main meanings. It’s usually a replacement of the word “finally” in French, « c’est fait / enfin…

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    gives the eye a sense of unity and validity using uniforms. The language restrictions help prevent the invasion of privacy among co-workers or even sexual harassment. Dictionaries do help people to all mutually understand what words are defined as what, but do not limit the word 's meaning, or determine what is proper and what it is not. While these elements of what is proper and what is not are seemingly essential to humanity functioning with fluidity, they can become too much. The limits can…

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    Meaning Of Cockney Slang

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    6.2 Concept To be clearer about the type and meaning of slang words in this study that we need to describe. Concepts used in this study are the idea or theory of experts in order to make this study more focused. 6.2.1 The Concept of Language Varieties Language can be varieties based on the several different points of view including the way it is used, language varieties are classified in the formality, the stratification, and the various professional fields to which the lexicon of the…

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    “Language variation means that a given language like English is not one uniform and homogeneous system, but that it contains many, slightly or strongly diverging subsystems or varieties.” (Dirven 2004: 204) In order to understand the term variety different concepts must be defined. This essay discusses the differences and similarities of the concepts of accent and dialect. While the first part of this essay deals with the term accent, the second part deals with its contrast term, the dialect.…

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    Resilience, Willingness, Habits. These are all things that describe the word tolerance at least in the English language. Tolerance. This word that dates back to the 15th century it is used now as a politically correct; good to teach openness and sympathy that gives an excuse to hide the snobbery and rudeness, but there is still a connotation to the word when it is spoken whether it be negative or positive. With this word comes a lot of history like in religion like in the bible and muslim…

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    Evaluation of the Speech Theory The speech act is the basic unit of language used to express meaning, an utterance that expresses an intention. (University of Twente, 2017). Generally, the speech act is usually referenced as a sentence, but it can be a word or phrase, if it follows the rules required to accomplish the intention. When we speak, we perform an act. Speech is not just used to designate something, it does something. So, having said this, the Speech Act Theory basically stresses the…

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    ladies and gentlemen , Today i will be talking about the topic Language and Power. Can anyone tell me , What is language? “A language is the method of human communication, either spoken or written, consisting of the use of words in a structured and conventional way.” That’s the definition from the Oxford Dictionary. Now I’m not interested in the surface definition , this is for grade 5 kids in elementary school. I wanna go in - depth to applying it in real life situations to everything we do.…

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    Linguistic complexity is commonly defined as the variedness and elaborateness of language production (Ellis, 2003). The definition resembles the philosophical definition of complexity as a function of the number of a system’s constituent elements, the variety of these constituents, and the elaborateness of their inter- relations (Rescher, 1998). Accordingly, the measurement of linguistic complex- ity involves quantitatively measuring the number and nature of linguistic sub- components and the…

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