ENGLISH ORTHOGRAPHIC SYSTEM MODIFICATION English is a West Germanic language related to Scots, Dutch, Frisian and German, is one of the most used actual languages in the world. However, English’s orthographic system has been reformatted three times; these changes are placed in three different periods: Old English, Middle English and Modern English (Ager, 1998) this happened due to the necessity of solve the orthography depth, which indicates the one-to-one letter-phoneme correspondence and some
In 2001 psychologist Richard Wiseman created LaughLab; a yearlong project to discover the funniest joke in the world. After analysing 40,000 jokes that were rated over 1.5 million times, the project was finalised and the winning joke was announced. According to Wiseman and his team, the funniest joke in the world goes as follows: Two hunters are out in the woods when one of them collapses. He doesn't seem to be breathing and his eyes are glazed. The other guy whips out his phone and calls the
The song “Take Me to Church” by Hozier has recently become very popular. Hozier is a twenty-four year old artist from Ireland. Before proceeding with this essay if you have not seen the music video I would highly suggest you watch it in order to obtain a deeper understanding. The lyrics and the music video have been evoking massive controversy all over the world. Many people love the song and everything it stands for and on the other side you have a group of people who condemn it and want to
to Visser and Hoondoorn (2004) the development of Clarens as a second home destination owes it to Crowther and Weyers, ever since they had bought many properties which they saw as a potential for tourism development in the future. Because of an ambiguity of the term Second-home, it is better to find a key definition that can generally be accepted. A good definition of a Second-home is that of Goodall (1987). Goodall (1987 in Visser and Hoondoorn, 2004:107) states that “a second-home is a property
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of the Romantic Movement in its appreciation of nature, and the use of sublime imagery is prevalent in the literature du jour, and is presented as the diametric opposite to what Julia Kristeva calls the abject in her 1980 work, Powers of Horror: An Essay on Abjection. Abjection is the human reaction (such as terror or horror) to a threatened loss of meaning when confronted by the loss of distinction between the subject and the object: the moment at which the subject (the Cartesian “I”) is confronted
Woman: God’s second mistake? Friedrich Nietzsche, a German philosopher, who regarded ‘thirst for power’ as the sole driving force of all human actions, has many a one-liners to his credit. ‘Woman was God’s second mistake’, he declared. Unmindful of the reactionary scathing criticism and shrill abuses he invited for himself, especially from the ever-irritable feminist brigade. The fact and belief that God never ever commits a mistake, brings Nietzsche’s proclamation dashingly down into the dust bin