http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/language/ en-us Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:29:28 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419221/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2419221/posts#comment Fri, 1 Jan 2010 23:29:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418521/posts For some examples, tune in to Hannity's show in the afternoon and hear young (I assume) females who speak in some sort of Valley Girl / Munchkin combination of vocabulary and inflection. In the interest of equal treatment, many young males also exhibit poor communication skills; but poor in a different way. Many sound like remarkable apes who have learned rudimentary human speech. What is the cause of this loss of standard speech? This has been troubling me for quite some time. The last day of the year is a good time to get it out of my head and... Little House on Unaka http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418521/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 19:04:42 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418652/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418652/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 22:55:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418375/posts theodp writes "The USPTO has granted IBM a patent covering the Resolution of Abbreviated Text in an Electronic Communications System, lawyer-speak for translating "IMHO" to "In My Humble Opinion" and vice versa. From the patent: "One particularly useful application of the invention is to interpret the meaning of shorthand terms...For example, one database may define the shorthand term 'LOL' to mean 'laughing out loud.'" So much for Big Blue's professed aim of stopping "bad behavior" by companies who seek patents for unoriginal work!" techdirt http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2418375/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 15:48:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418229/posts Once-presidential phrase casualty of word war DETROIT – The phrase "shovel ready," incessantly invoked by the Obama administration this year as a way to sell its $787 billion federal stimulus bill, died Thursday. The official cause of death was overuse, according to Lake Superior State University, which announced the phrase's demise in its annual List of Words to Be Banished from the Queen's English for Mis-use, Over-use and General Uselessness, released Thursday. "Shovel ready" dug its own grave by forcing its way into speeches and out of the mouths of the president and too many other politicians in past months.... AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2418229/posts#comment Thu, 31 Dec 2009 10:36:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417950/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417950/posts#comment Wed, 30 Dec 2009 22:51:43 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417234/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2417234/posts#comment Tue, 29 Dec 2009 22:52:09 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416565/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2416565/posts#comment Mon, 28 Dec 2009 22:55:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414072/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2414072/posts#comment Wed, 23 Dec 2009 22:49:19 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413341/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2413341/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 22:53:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412536/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2412536/posts#comment Mon, 21 Dec 2009 22:49:58 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411471/posts The language of the Comanche people, a lifeline of its culture, is fading fast. Its muted vowels and sapient cadence once echoed throughout the fenceless grasslands of the South Plains, but today it can muster barely a whisper... With a recent $215,000 two-year grant from the Administration for Native Americans, they'll shoulder the task on modern technology and a new generation of Comanche students eager to learn their ancestral tongue. "Its important for any language to have its say, to be documented," Williams said. "It's interesting for Comanche because it rose to dominance on the South Plains so quickly, then... Lubbock Online http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2411471/posts#comment Sun, 20 Dec 2009 02:35:04 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410793/posts SAVAGE NATION ON THE AIR! Join us! Michael Savage http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410793/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 23:16:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409932/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409932/posts#comment Thu, 17 Dec 2009 22:51:40 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409099/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2409099/posts#comment Wed, 16 Dec 2009 22:57:14 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408255/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2408255/posts#comment Tue, 15 Dec 2009 22:48:11 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407473/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2407473/posts#comment Mon, 14 Dec 2009 22:50:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406584/posts The words they did not want to verbalize were “socialistic” and “Muslim” or “Islamic.” faithfreedom.org http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406584/posts#comment Sun, 13 Dec 2009 15:14:20 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405759/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405759/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 22:48:44 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404940/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404940/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:50:28 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404078/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404078/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 22:49:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403216/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403216/posts#comment Tue, 8 Dec 2009 22:45:10 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402380/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2402380/posts#comment Mon, 7 Dec 2009 22:53:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400718/posts Newborn babies start learning language in the womb -- and are born with what you might call accents, a new study of crying babies says. That fetuses hear and become accustomed to language is nothing new. Several studies have shown that, when exposed to different languages shortly after birth, a baby will typically indicate a preference for the language closest to the one he or she would've heard during gestation... For the new study, a team led by Kathleen Wermke at the Center for Prespeech Development and Developmental Disorders at Würzburg University in Germany studied the cry "melodies" of 60... National Geographic News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-chat/2400718/posts#comment Sat, 5 Dec 2009 02:46:16 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400566/posts www.michaelsavage.wnd.com/ http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2400566/posts#comment Fri, 4 Dec 2009 22:59:32 GMT