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Spoken English isn't really literate, but then it doesn't really have to be. It just needs to be a means of communication. Some people can puff it up into a powerful tool that can move millions when they speak publicly, although you can search through Canadian politics until your eyeballs are empty and blind without finding one today, but most of us get along just by mumbling and stumbling our way through life. Spoken English lives like Topsy, however. It just grows, spontaneously, magically, by the day, by the hour, by the minute. Your officially semi-literate kid might come home from school with a new word every day, but it wouldn't be from the classroom; it would come from the playground.
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Letter to the Editor
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... widely accepted idea that an official language, legal framework, and territorial unity are not su..., (d) individuals and groups in their living and work environments. . This view presupposes the...
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The English language's reputation as a durable, resilient, 'living language' can be attributed to a process of evolutionary change that continually provides the English-speaking world with a seemingly inexhaustible supply of new words," wrote Dick Thurber in his Portmanteau Dictionary (1993). A portmanteau, Thurber explained, results when a pair of words are fused together to create a fresh-sounding one. Examples are smog (smoke + fog) and Brangelina (Brad + Angelina). "You see, it's like a portmanteau... there are two meanings packed up into one word," said Humpty Dumpty to Alice, clarifying "slithy" (lithe + slimy). "Ow," says American linguist Joe Kissell when asked his opinion on local portmanteaux like Kil-Cona and Propaghandi. The San Francisco-based writer (his latest book, Real...
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..., and the Commissioner of Official Languages of Canada Interveners. Indexed as: Arsenault-Camer...23 right holders living in the Summerside area were entitled to educationa...
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Trinidad-Tobago-born Canadian author Neil Bissoondath argues that official multiculturalism limits the freedom of minority members by confining them to cultural and geographic ghettos. In his opinion, the government's view of culture as being about festivals and cuisine is a crude over-simplification that leads to stereotyping. Reginald Bibby, in Mosaic Madness; Pluralism Without A Cause, agrees, arguing that official multiculturalism is a divisive force and reduces national solidarity and unity. Robert Putnam, a Harvard professor, social scientist, and author of Bowling Alone has done a five-year study on immigration that reveals the long-term effect of diversity is not good for society. He found that diversity not only reduces the social capital between ethnic groups but also within t...
...Putnam writes "in colloquial language, people living in ethnically diverse settings appe...
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..., biochemical, polymer, biopolymer, or living organism) is imported into, or manufactured in Can... and assessment; are written in plain language with readers' aids (e.g. table of contents, descri...
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It's much safer compared to where we're living now," says [Frances]. "We hear gunshots," she says, and "there's language you don't want your kids to listen to. "Because I'm into women's health, volunteering for women's housing made sense," says Alice Challoner, a nurse at Women's Hospital. Women Build offered her an opportunity to get her hands dirty. "I'm a handy person and used to be my dad's go-fer," she jokes, "though I've never built a house before." "We're at various skill levels," says Eileen Strum, who works in the computer industry and is devoting a week of her holidays to this project. "We work together to include everybody's skills. Everybody is given a chance to do different projects and if somebody doesn't have certain skills, they can develop them."
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... situation, and some to her education and language training. The Applicant was able to answer some qu... to speak English, and where she was living at the time, he committed an error. [20] The Appli...
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It is going to be a road trip as if anybody else was taking a road trip, although we've planned things out. We've got some special things that maybe other tourists might not get a chance to do, as well," [Charles Pinsky] told a press conference in Madrid. "I don't know what we are going to do, but it is going to be fun," [Oscar-winner Gwyneth Paltrow] added in very good Spanish, a language she learned as a student while living with a Spanish family in the central Castille region.
