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Why do kids call their parents 'Mom' and 'Dad'? - 1 views

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    This article explains the reason why we call our parents mom and dad. The article gives examples of different ways to say mom and dad in different languages in a table, to show how similar the sounds of mom and dad are across those languages. The article then explained how social constructs and culture keeps us from calling our mom or dad their legal name.
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Penguin language obeys same rules as human speech, researchers say | The Independent - 0 views

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    This article explains the discovery of non-primate animals using similar linguistic rules of human speech. The Zipf and Menzerath-Altmann laws were mentioned, as these are key points of human communication. These patterns were observed in 590 different ecstatic calls of 28 different African Penguins
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'It don't be like that now' - the English history of African American English - 1 views

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    This article discusses how the African American Diaspora affected the vernacular of Black English. I found it interesting how black people in Canada have a different English vernacular than those in the South. The difference was astounding. You could hear some audio clips in the article.
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What makes something ironic? - 0 views

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    This article discusses the meaning of the word ironic and goes into detail about how the meaning has changed or lost its meaning over the years. I found it interesting, since I use the internet a lot and much of the humor I look at is described as "ironic". That ironic is not what the article described, showing how the word has lost its meaning.
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