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Did you know that 'Almost' is the longest word in the English language with all of its letters in alphabetical order? Or that 'Stewardesses' is the longest word you can type solely with your left hand? Or that fireflies aren't actually flies, they're beetles? From information about words and their uses, to useful lists of things you never knew had names, palindromes, famous lines from literature and film, bizarre test answers and more, The Weird World...
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Word travelers volume 1
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Eddie and MJ are suddenly transported to India where they must use their word knowledge to solve a mystery and help their new friend Dev save his school.
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Al país de los baskos se le llama de muy diversas maneras: País Vasco, Vasconia, Baskonia, País Vasconavarro, Navarra, Euskadi o Euskal Herria, con sus adecuaciones a los diferentes idiomas. Un abanico de nombres muy sugerente pero poco útil para la identificación inequívoca del país.
A ellos hay que añadir los utilizados oficialmente para denominar las tres diferentes administraciones que se asientan en su ámbito antropológico cultural....
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The English language is crammed with colorful phrases and sayings that we use without thinking every day.
It's only when we're asked who smart Alec or Holy Moly were, where feeling 'in the pink' or 'once in a blue moon' come from, or even what letting the cat out of the bag really means that we realize that there's far more to English than we might have thought.
Luckily enough, we now have Albert Jack. And rather than resting on his laurels after...
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What do the phrases "pro-life," "intelligent design," and "the war on terror" have in common? Each of them is a name for something that smuggles in a highly charged political opinion. Words and phrases that function in this special way go by many names. Some writers call them "evaluative-descriptive terms." Others talk of "terministic screens" or discuss the way debates are "framed." Author Steven Poole calls them Unspeak. Unspeak represents an attempt...
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Get the Summary of Mark Forsyth's The Elements of Eloquence in 20 minutes. Please note: This is a summary & not the original book. "The Elements of Eloquence" by Mark Forsyth explores the power and intricacies of rhetorical devices in the English language. Forsyth delves into the allure of alliteration, as seen in Shakespeare's works and political slogans, and the subtlety of polyptoton, where a word is used in different forms to enrich the text....
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Word travelers volume 2
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Go on an adventure with Eddie and MJ, as they solve a mystery in the midst of Mexico's Dia de Muertos celebrations.
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Decir que la lingüística es la ciencia del lenguaje es un truismo. Sin embargo, todo aquí es oscuro y factor de confusión, comenzando por la multiplicidad de escuelas de lingüística. Pero se puede y se debe suponer que más allá de las diferencias que separan a unas de otras, existe un programa general: construir una ciencia del lenguaje. Falta exponer ese programa en detalle y presentar las proposiciones que lo hacen legítimo.
La primera...
20) Humanismo negro
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La interpelación a la filología es una exhortación no solo de una
disciplina tradicional en torno a la reformulación de las premisas de
la interpretación, sino una crítica corrosiva del humanismo. Para
Jürgen Paul Schwindt, la filología deja al descubierto la «utopía
negativa» de un humanismo después o antes de todo humanismo:
un «humanismo negro». Negro porque, luego de haber descartado
cualquier comprensión de lo humano que opere...
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