Words about Words

... German or Austrian form is Wien.” —National Public Radio’s Morning Edition 156 CHAPTER 38 Words about Words II cmp04.qxd 7/21/05 12:27 PM Page 156 The counterpart of exonym is endonym, the name ... some languages, such as German, we often get carried away). In this chapter we feature word words, or meta -words, all of which end with the combining form -onym (name or word). exonym (EK-s...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

... birth is observed as Dictionary Day. In his honor, this chapter explores words about words. 107 CHAPTER 26 Words about Words cmp03.qxd 7/21/05 12:16 PM Page 107 hapax legomenon (HAY-paks li-GOM-uh-non), ... cmp03.qxd 7/21/05 12:16 PM Page 110 Y ou won’t find words like facilitate in many poems. While such Latin words give a touch of formality to diction, words from Old English...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

... clef about the author’s com- plicated and boisterous friendship during the 1970s with Ray- mond Carver, when both men were in the San Francisco Bay area.” —Washington Post 28 CHAPTER 7 Words about ... delightful story about Isaac Bashe- vis Singer’s explanation of the word chutzpah. The veracity I cannot vouch for, but it doesn’t detract from the story: Singer was telling an audience...

Ngày tải lên: 25/10/2013, 16:20

... anywhere. 13 S o a r t o t h e c i r c u s a n d f l o a t t o t h e f a i r . Each sen t ence has a subjec t — i t ’s kind of like t he s t ar. It’s whatthe whole thing’s all about: 15 D a v e ’ s d i s h , M o m ’ s l o o k , T o d d ’ s c a r . Subjects always need a verb— 16 i t ’ s w h a t m a k e s f i s h e s s w i m and

Ngày tải lên: 02/03/2014, 04:30

... KA 2. Indicates an inquiry about someone's feelings or intentions or a suggestion about something: ((howabou t.)) 映画を見に行きませんか。 Eiga 0 mi ni ikimasen ka. How about going to see a movie? ... essentially the sarne as those in 11-4 ， above， except 白紙 the second clause isn't stated outright. (Words in brackets show only one of various imaginable contexts.) a...

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:19

Ngày tải lên: 27/03/2014, 12:26

... Predicting Part-of-Speech Information about Unknown Words using Statistical Methods Scott M. Thede Purdue University West Lafayette, IN ... tagger to handle out-of-lexicon words. 1 Introduction Part-of-speech tagging involves selecting the most likely sequence of syntactic categories for the words in a sentence. These syntactic ... "learn" the probabilities for wor...

Ngày tải lên: 31/03/2014, 04:20

... Academic Reading Passage 1 - Lost for Words( Source: Cambridge IELTS 4, Cambridge University Press 2005)In the Native American Navajo nation, ... planet's linguistic diversity shrunk at such a pace. 'At the moment, we are heading for about three of four languages dominating the world;' says Mark Pagel, an evolutionary biologist ... speakers, and at least 3,000 have fewer tha...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 09:39

... a topic with a story idea. That’s justwhat I did once with a long piece about memory. Whatabout memory? Well, everything about memory. Elise helpedme save it, almost; I wound up saying that an ... just starting out—worked with Elise at themagazine. Most of what I know today about writing, espe-cially writing about science, medicine, and other difficultsubjects, I learned then. Others d...

Ngày tải lên: 04/10/2012, 10:24

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Ngày tải lên: 05/10/2012, 08:20