popular as she believes. But worse than the misconception of what happened‚ Amanda lives in the fantasy that she remains as popular in the present and still expects gentleman callers. Finally‚ Williams writes Amanda speaking in the dialect of her youth‚ southern accents and abbreviation when Jim arrives‚ she says‚ “I think light things are better fo’ this time of year. Same as light
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Causes of Childhood Obesity Obesity is a superfluous amount of fat in the body. Obesity happens when a person’s body receives many more calories than it can burn by itself during the day. In other words it means that people eat generous helpings of processed food; moreover‚ this food can consist of a lot of cholesterol‚ which is extremely dangerous for the human body. Childhood obesity today has grown rapidly and has become a disturbing epidemic in many countries in the past few decades. Studies
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territorial variants of a national language and local dialects. Variants of a language are regional varieties of a standard literary language characterized by some minor peculiarities in the sound system‚ vocabulary and grammar and by their own literary norms. The variety of English spoken in the USA has received the name of American English. The term variant or variety appears most appropriate for several reasons. American English cannot be called a dialect although it is a regional variety‚ because it
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From "RP" to "Estuary English": The concept ’received ’ and the debate about British pronunciation standards Hamburg 1998 Author: Gudrun Parsons Beckstrasse 8 D-20357 Hamburg e-mail: Parsons@public.uni-hamburg.de Table of Contents Foreword ................................................................................................. i List of Abbreviations ............................................................................... ii 0. 1. Introduction .......................
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different situations and how the attitudes of other people influenced these adaptions Over the years as time passes by our language progresses and develops. People all around the world will have their own form of how they speak different dialects‚ languages or accents. Today I’m going to be exploring and evaluating the factors that affect the way my own spoken language can adapt in different situations and how the attitudes of other people influence these adaptions. In everyday life I adapt our spoken
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sympathetic way. Street lingo An accent is the way a certain group of people pronounce words‚ phrases and sentences‚ including dropping sounds and joining up sounds from words. Accents often show which country people are from or which area within a country people are from. Traditionally‚ accent would denote social background. A dialect is the type of language typical to a particular groups of the language’s speakers‚ often dependant on where someone is from. Different dialects have their own vocabulary
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tell you‚ and you cant relate it with another one‚ you get stuck‚ and you lose the rest of the idea because you stop thinking about that NEW word. 2. Accents / dialects: there’s a lot of difference speaking with a person of your same country‚ than speaking with a foreign person‚ why?‚ it’s so simple‚ because they have different accent or dialect‚ so they pronounce a lot different the words‚ so if they are saying a simple sentence‚ it becomes a difficult one‚ cause you won’t understand them quite
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beings‚ but rather‚ something that makes up a part of who we are. KEY WORDS>Dialect variation‚Sociolect‚ Register The life of language intermingles with the life of society. Language must also be profitably studied in its social context‚in so doing‚ we learn both about language and about
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a local restaurant‚ where waiters and waitresses spoke Cantonese. They did not take me seriously after they distinguished that I was not a native‚ just like what Tan’s mother experienced. This is my first time to feel that my accent embarrassed me. I realized that accents could incur
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American Culture The American Culture is rich‚ complex‚ and unique. Our culture‚ which is an important component of the nation’s identity‚ emerged from short‚ rapid European invasion of the Americas‚ sparsely settled by diverse native peoples. The African’s arrival added yet another layer of unique cultural complexity to the territories named the New World. These three cultures‚ European‚ Indian‚ and African were very different and yet a lot alike. Their ways of life were greatly diverse although
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