The English language is very different today than it was in the 1920’s. Drastically changing over the years due to cultural‚ social standards and status. An alcoholic beverage that used to be called “giggle water”‚ or “giggler” due to some of the effects that alcohol can have on a person. But‚ if you were drunk due to too many “gigglers” and become a “splifficated” or “zozzled” they would call you a “boozehead”. After work “drugstore cowboys” which were young bachelors‚ would wait outside of a brothel
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The Tamils are an ethic group and lives in southern India and on Sri Lanka (mainly in the state of Tamil Nadu); it is an island of 21 million people odd the southern tip of India. According to a 2001 government census‚ most Tamils live in the eastern and the northern Sri Lanka‚ and they comprise approximately 10 percent of the island’s population. From their religion most of them are Hindu but Tamil language set them apart from the four fifths of Sri Lankans who are Sinhalese; the members of a largely
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Task 1: Language Analysis of Tamil Speaker Tamil Language The Tamil vowel system consists of: — Five pairs of short vowels: /ʌ/‚ /ɑ/; /ɪ/‚ /ɪː/; /e/‚ /eː/; /o/‚ /oː/; /u/‚ /uː/. — Two diphthongs: /aɪ/ (like the vowel in buy) and /aʊ/ (like the vowel in cow). — All vowels are undiphthongised. — For the vowels /o/ (rounded‚ short) and /oː/ (long equivalent)‚ there is no equivalent in
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Thanjavur: The sprawling campus of Tamil University‚ spread in more than 800 acres‚ in Thanjavur was flocked not only by the young students but also by migratory birds. The university founded by then Chief Minister of Tamil Nadu M G Ramachandran in the year 1981 as a high – level research centre in Tamil language‚ literature and cultured‚ later blossomed into a teaching university. M G R was gracious enough to allot around 1‚000 acres of land in the outskirts of the ancient town and the erstwhile
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The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam Introduction The Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE)‚ also known as the Tamil Tigers‚ are a terrorist organization in Sri Lanka. The LTTE is infamous for introducing the suicide bomb jacket‚ as well as the use of women in suicide attacks. They are blamed for a dozen high profile assassinations‚ over two hundred suicide attacks‚ and its war against the government has cost more than seventy thousand lives. The LTTE‚ which may have between 7‚000 to 15‚000
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Discourse On the Tamil Tigers “I would prefer to die in honour rather than being caught alive by the enemy” (Towards Liberation 83). V. Prabakaran‚ leader and founder of the LTTE (Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam)‚ said this during an exclusive interview with the magazine the “Sunday.” This statement represents how most Tamil Tigers feel about their fight for freedom. Tamil Tigers are dedicated to dying in battle rather than being caught by the enemy (Sri Lanka military). The Tamil Tigers were founded
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TAMILNADU SLUM CLEARANCE BOARD NEED FOR IT ? A shelter with basic amenities is the most essential need of a human being. The influx into the city was caused primarily due to the unskilled labourers from the neighbouring rural areas entering into the city in search of jobs. Due to lack of required skills and their meagre income‚ they occupy vacant Government poramboke/private lands near their work place and put up hutments. These settlements generally lack proper sanitation facilities resulting
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English‚ the Official Language in the U. S. Michele Hoard ENG 122 Instructor Nelly Aguilar March 7‚ 2011 English‚ the Official Language in the U. S. The researcher stated that English is now the official language in the United States. There are documents that discuss the importance of an official language in America‚ which supports this statement. In this research there are further details about English as the Official Language in the U. S. and how language can unite people in society
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An Efficient Tamil Text Compaction System N.M..Revathi‚ G.P.Shanthi‚ Elanchezhiyan.K‚ T V Geetha‚ Ranjani Parthasarathi & Madhan Karky Tamil Computing Lab (TaCoLa)‚ College of Engineering Guindy‚ Anna University‚ Chennai. haisweety18@gmail.com‚ jijutodo@gmail.com‚ madhankarky@gmail.com Abstract Tamil is slowly becoming the online language and mobile text messaging languages for many Tamils around the world. Social networks and mobile platforms now extensively support Unicode and applications
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