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Hamish Champ
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Intermediate French: 14 July
...le centre. (d) __________ la météo, il ne va pas pleuvoir. (e) __________ sur les Champs Élysées après le défilé. Et vous, (f) __________ ? Appelez-nous ce soir à l’hôtel. Jack (a) we’re definitely going (b) are probably coming (c) we’re not taking the car (d) we’ve listened to (e) perhaps we will have a drink (f) what will you do Words: 0 Answer Cher Christian, On va sûrement aller au défilé. Et les enfants vont sans ......
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Will Brexit reduce the UK's soft power in Europe?
...swathes of strangers driving pay down, stealing jobs and choking NHS queues while irritatingly speaking in tongues. On the contrary: the problems come from those mastering English lexical nuances too well to lord it over tens of millions. A type of power you’d call brutal rather than soft. This article was originally published by OpenDemocracy under a CC-BY-NC licence...
Digital & Computing
Do people need Peeple?
...Champ (@hchamp) October 1, 2015 Given the prevailing business model for online services however, it’s not so strange that someone would equate people and products in this way. After all, internet companies do it all the time when they harvest and trade personal data without truly informed consent. Or, as it was put in a Washington Post article: The most surprising thing...
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The taste of love on different tongues: What language tells us about love
...lexical dexterity, especially Greek, which contributed the most words by far. As such, in a spirit of poetic consistency, I gave each flavour a relevant Greek label. I call these “flavours” to avoid implying that relationships can be exclusively pigeonholed as constituting just one form. A romantic partnership, say, might blend several flavours together, generating a...
Education & Development
A focus on misogynoir – the anti-Black forms of misogyny that Black women experience
...lexical approach is insufficient to detect all cases of online misogynoir. Nevertheless, our qualitative analysis reveals that racial gaslighting appears to be a big issue for the women in our case studies and a substantial number of their supporters. The hashtag #BelieveBlackWomen was a theme across all of the case studies. This is related to tone policing in that if one...
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Grammar matters
...lexical choices (brother as against young man for example) and also a difference in the way the grammatical pattern represents the experience. In Example 1 we have a process in which two participants are involved: one that does the action (the agent – the young woman) and one that is affected by the action (her brother). In the clause in Example 2 we have a different...
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Intermediate French: Holiday plans
...Champs-Élysées; Max, qui joue de la clarinette dans les rues; Maître Bourgeois, avocat d'affaires; Dominique Isaac, agent de police; Médina, étudiante en psychologie; Philippe, qui dirige plusieurs journaux et un site Internet. [Figure 7] Dominique Isaac sur son lieu de travail, Max et sa clarinette, Madame Biret devant son magasin, et Médina et Philippe. Nous leur...