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    The Origins of English Language The words from - Arabic origin 1) A part of Lithuanian media tends to portray HIV patients often as big-time debauchers‚ who engage in shameless insatiable sexual activities‚ relished with drugs and alcohol. (3‚ ‘Journalist hooked on making difference in peers’ coverage of HIV’- ‘Superstitions still big.’ Page 16‚ line 6) 2) Many of their experiments seem to involve coffee and IPods‚ and the word “branch” is rarely used. (2‚ ‘Coffee and IPods’ Page

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    The Origins of the Estonian Language The Origins of the Estonian Language I just celebrated my fifth year in Estonia and my fifth fruitless year trying to figure out how to correctly speak Estonian. I mean really‚ it wouldn’t be so bad if Estonians weren’t so smug about it. Oh‚ they will congratulate you on your good Estonian even if you can only speak a few words‚ but deep inside they really don’t want you to learn it! They are so happy with their secret code and you can see it every time someone

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    Language and It's Origin

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    How did language begin? Words don’t leave artifacts behind—writing began long after language did—so theories of language origins have generally been based on hunches. For centuries there had been so much fruitless speculation over the question of how language began that when the Paris Linguistic Society was founded in 1866‚ its bylaws included a ban on any discussions of it. The early theories are now referred to by the nicknames given to them by language scholars fed up with unsupportable just-so

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    Book Review on Imagined Communities: Reflections on Origin and Spread of Nationalism Book Title: Anderson‚ Benedict R. O. Imagined Communities: Reflections on the Origin and Spread of Nationalism. Rev. and Extended ed. London: Verso‚ 2006. Print. Introduction Nationalism is a peculiar phenomenon. It is interesting and intriguing to find that people all around the world believe themselves to be a part of a community of a nation of whose they are citizens of. The sense of belonging and identity

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    Vernacular Architecture

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    Vernacular buildings What extent it is a question of the use of locally available materials and traditional building techniques The definition of vernacular buildings got a lot of people confused as some sources used a person opinion or complicates the meaning but to simplify it‚ vernacular buildings is an approach of architecture that uses local material and resources in a certain area or region where a building is built and undertakes local needs. Before 1900s‚ people unconsciously built vernacular

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    Vernacular Architecture

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    Vernacular architecture Ronald Brunskill defined it accurately in saying: “A building designed by an amateur without any training in design; the individual will have been guided by a series of conventions built up in his locality‚ paying little attention to what may be fashionable. The function of the building would be the dominant factor‚ aesthetic considerations‚ though present to some small degree‚ being quite minimal. Local materials would be used as a matter of course‚ other materials being

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    Black Vernacular English from Virginia Black Vernacular English‚ a dialect at times used by as many as 80 to 90 percent of African Americans and long identified by whites as substandard English‚ is in fact a different and unique form of American English. Black Vernacular English (BVE)‚ or Black English‚ is fundamentally a spoken language derived from the slaves and still remarkably consistent throughout African American culture. Because of the roots and many unique aspects of Black Vernacular

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    Theories of the Origin of Language When did language begin ?How ?‚But the most important question here is how did they devise the language? .In fact‚ there is no evidence or that but there are a lot of discussion‚ theories and issues about this . many societies and religions believe that the language is the gift from God. According to Judeo-Christian beliefs‚ the one deity gave Adam the power to name all things. Similar beliefs are found in Egyptians and others around the world .The others

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    Online Dictionary‚ the definition of vernacular is “of‚ relating to‚ or being a nonstandard language or dialect of a place‚ region‚ or country.” In terms of African American history‚ the evolution of vernacular is very important and a very unique part of the culture. The African American vernacular has aided the development of a distinct culture in terms of what African Americans were subjected to from the installation of slavery. The African American vernacular was used as a way to expose the atrocities

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    Works of the African American Vernacular Culture When thinking of musical genres such as jazz‚ blues‚ and hip-hop‚ most Americans do not realize that they are the essential components to the evolution of African American Vernacular Literature. In fact‚ it is the key factor that brought African American culture into the limelight in America. Since the first black peoples in America were slaves‚ and were not allowed to read or write‚ the African American Vernacular Traditions began as completely

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