Word game

You want me to write about the weight of words, okay. Challenge accepted, lets start with why. Words are a beautiful way to communicate but sometimes you need more, and its not enough and incomplete. To complete it we put wortheir not just sentence’s. Their emotions, gestures, ideas, thoughts and, that’s all were made of. You wanna know why they carry so much weight, such an impact because all it takes is for you to have told or to know a secrete, a truth, a confession. Once you know it or even…

“create” newspeak, it consists of the deletion of words not the creation of them. This is the exact opposite of what occurs in modern day society. We create new words in order to expand the range of thought. Newspeak is the exact opposite. The goal is to delete words in order to simplify the language. This changes the effect of words on the population. Newspeak has a large effect on the populous. This is because it is the main language of Oceania. If words from the old language, called…

1. Broken People - message: Someone is injured and they need a doctor. - shining moment: repetition of “I’m a doctor”, looks like a robot. And the patient said, “ok, I’m healed.” LOL 2. Group 2 - message: The transformation from the high school life to the marriage of a high school couple, and the teacher is a witness of their love story. - shining moment: distracted class looks so realistic (being late, playing phone, passing notes...) 3. Girl Scouts - message: writing a dramatic story…

“There are no two words in the English language more harmful than "good job". This quote from the critically acclaimed movie Whiplash. In the scene, the main character Andrew having conversation with his once was band director Terence Fletcher, in a jazz bar. The two-started talking and the famous quote spilled out of Fletcher’s mouth to explain why only, “Good job” is one of the most harmful phrases of the English language. After depicting this quote, points can be made that Fletcher’s…

Blasphemy. These are just a few of the many words that are used to define profanity. As taboo language, profanity holds a powerful position in our society. Throughout the various languages in this world, there are almost always words that are considered to be taboo. These profane words have a different place in the minds of people than those that fill their daily lexicon. The way that these words are used is often very different that day to day words and they have come to hold a special place in…

From the beginning, Genie was at a far greater disadvantage than Helen Keller. Genie endured a decade of severe abuse, neglect and social isolation. While their situations are both similar, their life experiences are what made their paths to discovering language very different. Genie had to learn how to trust and form relationships before she could embark on her journey. She would have to overcome her life experiences to progress forward. After Genie was found and went through the process of…

Different styles of writing can be created but you cannot change the grammar. In his essay “How to Say Nothing in 500 Words”, Paul Roberts shows us we can correctly use the English language in our writings. He believes “the principles of good writing should remain constant”. (Roberts). In most colleges, most students do not possess the level of writing and reading skill…

age and grade expectations for children her age when administered the expressive section of the MAVA Test and the Told I;4. The expressive section of the MAVA examines the child’s speaking skills and their ability to use tier 1, tier 2, and tier 3 words. This test is administered to children via pictures and prompts, and then the child is asked to answer questions and give information based on the pictures or what has been asked by the examiner. This half of the MAVA test also takes…

out unknown words they encounter whilst reading and also to gain meaning from the text, this can be seen in the graph below. Cueing Systems Graphophonic Syntatic Semantic • Phonics • Phonemic Awareness • Letters • Sounds • Spelling • Vocabulary • Grammar • Tenses • Comprehension • Making sense of texts (Graph adapted from Dr Ali Cullerton, Ph.D (2015) Semantic The semantic portion…

amount of words in a semantic domain. This helped me look closer at things like phrases a culture creates like the “time is money” phrase. Before I never would have looked deeper into the meaning of the phrase and thought about how it reflects a culture of people trying to get stuff done. Also I now have a more in-depth knowledge of how languages change. It helped me understand the factors that go into language change. Like how kids help drive language change. Before I didn’t know that a new…