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Jenni Young

Mathematics: Spoken Word by Hollie McNish - YouTube - 0 views

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    Spoken word about anti-immigration sentiments
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The Term Eve-Teasing Must Die - India Real Time - WSJ - 0 views

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    In India, sexual harassment is still widely referred to as "eve-teasing," a euphemism that makes light of the problem and even encourages such behaviour (article from Wall Street Journal)
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Why is eve-teasing so common in India? | A wide angle view of India - 0 views

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    When I first heard of this incident where a group of boys in Mumbai followed some young girls and then almost ran over one of them in their eagerness to attract their attention I was shocked (blog)
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BBC News - Firms ignore the foreign language internet at their peril - 2 views

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    Only 25% of the world speaks English - so businesses ignore the foreign language internet their peril.
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Born Again in a Second Language - 2 views

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    To abandon your native tongue and adopt another is to dismantle yourself, piece by piece, and then to put yourself together again in a different form (NYT )
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Rhyming slang is nang - 3 views

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    The old East End dialect is moving out to Essex, says one academic.
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At Home in This Village: Yiddish Speakers - 0 views

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    In New Square, NY, nearly 93% of the 7,000 or so residents speak Yiddish at home (NYT)
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US Census Bureau Language Mapper - 0 views

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    Map that shows where in the United States people speak certain foreign languages
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Classroom English will be the death of Aboriginal languages - 2 views

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    Blog
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In God's Name, or Baby 'Messiah,' Competing Claims of Religious Freedom - 2 views

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    Tennessee judges changes child's name from Messiah to Martin
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Can You Name Your Baby Messiah? - 0 views

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    One judge in Tennessee says no. Should courts be allowed to change awful names like Tiny Hooker or Adolf Hitler? (Slate.com)
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A Boy Named Humiliation: Some Wacky, Cruel, and Bizarre Puritan Names - 3 views

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    The Puritans often chose names to reflect their religious beliefs
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For Key And Peele, Biracial Roots Bestow Special Comedic 'Power' - 1 views

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    Keegan-Michael Key and Jordan Peele are the duo behind the Comedy Central sketch comedy show Key & Peele. Each has a white mother and black father, and a lot of their comedy is about race.
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Multilingualism: Johnson: Do different languages confer different personalities? | The ... - 0 views

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    Many multilinguals report different personalities, or even different worldviews, when they speak their different languages.
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New Study Shows Brain Benefits Of Bilingualism : 13.7: Cosmos And Culture : NPR - 0 views

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    The largest study so far to ask whether speaking two languages might delay the onset of dementia symptoms in bilingual patients as compared to monolingual patients has reported that bilingual patients suffer dementia onset an average of 4.5 years later than those who speak only a single language.
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Key and Peele - Obama's anger translator - 0 views

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    When Obama addresses his fellow Americans, his anger translator Luther helps him get his real message across. Key and Peele comedy sketch
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The French protect their language like the British protect their currency - 0 views

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    A row over using English in universities has blown up in France, where language is at the heart of the national identity
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