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The Power of Words (4be2)
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(Function of, Meaning of, Power of, Deception with, History of) Words & Expressions
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@Telesfor
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1 year ago
Everything that has a beginning has an end.
The year is ending, so it is time again to remember that everything that has begun will eventually end. Kingdoms and governments come and go. Companies are founded and then at some point they go bankr...
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@ahmadmanga
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1 year ago
Linguistic Observations: "إزدحمت السوق"
Souq. Marketplace. Shop. Bazaar. Random thoughts about the word "Market." Let's talk about the word "Market" today. Market is called "Souq" (سوق) in Arabic. Markets are places you Shop at, but th...
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@Mictorrani
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1 year ago
Vincent Van Gogh, Artist & Wise Madman - Quotes & Comments
Vincent van Gogh (1853 – 1890) is one of the most remarkable artists of European art history. Poor and unhappy, he never sold a single painting; today his paintings belong to the most valuable ones, a...
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@ahmadmanga
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1 year ago
Linguistic Observations: The Optimism in Asking "خيرك؟"
In Libya, we often say this one-word question "خيرك؟" and I thought it would be fun to talk about it here... The most spoken language in Libya is a variation of Arabic. We have more than one Arabi...
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@clixmoney
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1 year ago
What is decentralization ?
Yeah, yeah, I know that I'm on blockchain for more than 5 years, and still ask such questions, but really, when I see everyone talking about it, I would like to understand the real meaning of that !...
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@ahmadmanga
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2 years ago
Linguistic Observations [Ar/Ly/En]: هو وهي (About Gendered Pronouns)
The other day I was thinking about genders and pronouns... It seems using the correct pronoun while speaking with people is more important nowadays than ever. People get angry when you refer to them w...
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@ahmadmanga
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2 years ago
Linguistic Observations (Ly-Ar-En) " شرى واشترى"
Tl;dr: The Arabic word for "Sell" is often used for the opposite of its real meaning in most Arabic Dialects. In Libya and Most Arabic Countries, the word we use for "Sell" is بيع" and from tha...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Prompt: Favourite Quote
This is inspired by @Theblackdoll 's recent post: Favorite Quote – Prompt!! , where she writes: “ [,,,] I wanna know " Your favorite quote that you have ever heard.. your fav quote that inspired yo...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Laws & Principles of Absurdity & Perversity
I suppose you all know what a Law of Nature is, but have you ever heard about Laws of Absurdity/Perversity? Perhaps you have some time come across Murphy's law, and then you have a clue to what this i...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Old Language & Distorted Text
In this article, I will discuss two things related to language: old language and distorted language. Old Text This is from the anonymous English Tudor comedy Jacke Jugeler (Oldest known editions...
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@Cindy-Austin.21
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2 years ago
The Antonyms of "Feeling Blue" when we choose to Rub Out the Color.
Blue is the exact image of sadness, the shadow of loneliness, the soul of sorrow, in short it is the perfect representation of DEPRESSION. As you read it, I wanna ask you one question, what do you thi...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Anagrams, Palindromes, Cryptarithms and Alphametics
In "La Dame de Montsoreau" , Alexandre Dumas père lets Chicot, the court jester of Henri III, make an anagram of Henri's name. He got "Vilain Herodes" by "Henri de Valois" . Only a court jester co...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Rhyme & Reason: Verse, Structure, & Memory
There is no doubt that initially poetry, or verse, in the classical western sense, was a mnemo-technical tool; a method to make it easier to remember large quantities of information. Before the invent...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Dictionary of Selected Spices + A Little Story
14 spices in 10 languages & a little story about Turmeric, teaching us that a foreign language is not always easy. Since many readers do not have English as their first language, and I have recently...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Nietzsche: Selected Quotes & Brief Comments
Friedrich Nietzsche, 1844-1900, a long time with his reputation soiled by a supposed connection to Nazism, was in reality one of the most important Western thinkers of the second millennium. Hitler ap...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Why “Donald Duck” is Bad: Assimilation, Alliteration & How to Create a Name
Whether you are an author, inventing names for the characters of your next novel - or you are a future parent, considering names for your yet unborn children – you should be aware of assimilation and...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Phonetic Script & How Books of Religion Shape Languages
I. Alphabetic or Non-Alphabetic When I call a language "alphabetic, I refer to a language whose script is based on speech sounds. We could call it “phonetic” instead. That is, when the writing expres...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Transcription & Transliteration: Some Thoughts on Written Language & Foreign Names
Generally proper names are problematic. Ideally, they should never be changed from their original form; after all, a name is a name, as such it cannot be changed. If someone's name is Enrique, it is E...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
The Apple of Your Eyes & Too Much Shame Makes the Eyes Drop Out
Eyes are used in many expressions: to keep an eye on, with open eyes, to see with half an eye, to make eyes at, to have an eye for, to see eye to eye (to hold the same view, to agree), with an eye to,...
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@Mictorrani
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2 years ago
Antibigbrotherism Quotes – and about Creating a New Word
As a supplement to my recent article, Assorted Absurdities of Democracy , I want to present some quotes on the same and related themes. Here follows some great words by diverse individuals, plus occ...
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@katty77
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3 years ago
The literary resources walk through our everyday language.
Literary resources or literary figures are those phrases and expressions that are used to give more value and feeling to what is meant. These are used mostly by poets and writers to give their writi...
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@Mictorrani
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3 years ago
Tongue Twisters
Tongue twisters were developed as practical tools to train speech, but many people like them because they are fun. The original creator of a tongue twister is normally unknown; except for the one by E...
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@MWSA
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3 years ago
When People learn to Talk
When People learn to talk As humans we learn to talk at our early age, we talk about love, peace and at the same time hate. We use our voice to communicate and express our selves. Sometimes our expre...
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@Mictorrani
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3 years ago
Spicy Names
What about names of spices or spice-like herbs used as given names of humans? I have done some brief research on this, and although I am not pretending to have done that systematically and exhaustivel...
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@elana
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3 years ago
Useful expressions for describing negative emotions
Let's learn some new vocabulary that can help us understand other people. Fear,disappointment,rage,regret,disgust,despair,,spite,bitterness,nervousness, remorse,guilt and many others are words that...
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@elana
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3 years ago
Examples of how to say things in different situations-Slang
Many foreigners can't understand some phrases in spoken English, there are many reasons, because of idioms maybe,or phrasal verbs not common in their own language ,but the main reason is usually slan...
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@elana
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3 years ago
Words with more meanings
We are often confused by words with more than one meaning. There are lot of different words in English language that can make a real mess in our brains. For example, the word date can be brown swee...
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@Mictorrani
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3 years ago
Horror Quotes
Collections of quotes have proved to be popular, so have read.cash contests. Right now there is a contest held by @Jdine, and the topic is horror. What suits better for the occasion then than some hor...
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@Sumema
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3 years ago
Some Amazing Quotes.
I am a newbie and I don't know much so yesterday I saw a post of @Mictorrani where he told his favourite quotes so I also decided to show some my favourite quotes. I don't have much favourite quot...
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@Mictorrani
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3 years ago
With a Touch of Humour - More Quotes
My posts with proverbs and quotes were so well received so I decided to make another selection of quotes here. This time we will look at some with a humoristic touch. It doesn't make them less seriou...
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