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These comic books were about the misadventures of an anonymous German army corps in various war theatres of World War 2, by portraying the daily life, sufferances, problems and joys of the average, anonymous soldier. What made the comic hilarious to read was the fact that all texts and dialogues are written in an improper, German-mocking Italian, usually achieved by adding a final "-en" to most Italian words, or by exchanging "b"s with "p"s, and "v"s with "f"s ...

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Most of the sonnets deal with a beautiful "Young Man" (the Fair Lord), a rival poet, and a Dark Lady whose identities have been the subject of much debate. Some have suggested that the young man is the same as the "Mr. W. H." referred to in the publisher's dedication, possibly William Herbert, Earl of Pembroke, a patron of the stage. The rival poet is sometimes identified with Christopher Marlowe or George Chapman. However, there is no hard evidence whatsoever that any of the sonnets' characters have real-life counterparts. The narrator himself could even be a fictional device an ...

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The Education treats mainly of the changing social, technological, political, and intellectual worlds occuring over the author's lifetime. Adams very much concludes that his "traditional" education failed to help him come to terms with these rapid changes. Hence his perceived need for self-education. The organizing thread of the book is how the "proper" schooling of his youth, along with many other things in his life, was time wasted, and his resulting search for self-e ...

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Written in Medieval Greek, the acritic songs deal with the ανδραγαθίες (heroic deeds) of ακρίτες (frontiersmen), warriors that lived near the Arab frontiers and fought against the enemy. The constant state of war in the region and the repeated confrontations with the Arabs inspired poets to write down tales of chivalry as a response to society that wished to be informed or hear details, whether factual or imaginary, for the adventures caused by enemy invasions or the martial valor of their countrymen who drove them out. The fate of the inhabitants who after each invasion often had to face the loss of family members as well ...

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Subject. See subject (grammar) for the linguistic definition of subject. In politics a subject is a person who is subordinate to the rule of a monarch or state. Compare with citizen. In philosophy, a subject is a being which has experiences or a relationship with another entity (or "object"). Hence the word subjective. See subject (philosophy). Other related archivescitizen, monarch, p

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Person used for experiments in ESP studies.

 
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Grammar is the study of rules governing the use of language. The set of rules governing a particular language is also called the grammar of the language; thus, each language can be said to have its own distinct grammar. Grammar is part of the general study of language called linguistics. The subfields of modern grammar are phonetics, phonology, morphology, syntax, and semantics. Traditional grammars include only morphology and syntax. Grammar - Types of grammar. A prescript ... Including:

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The Slovak language has distinctive palatalization. The accent (stress) in standard language is always on the first syllable of a word (or on the preceding preposition, see below). It is however different in some dialects. The eastern dialects, for example, have penultimate stress, which does not contribute to their intelligibility with standard Slovak. Some of the north-central dialects have a weak stress on the first syllable, which becomes stronger and "moves" to the penultima in some kinds of sentences. The stress is ...

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The novel is exclusively set at the (entirely fictitious [cf. "Author's Note"]) University of Gloucester, based loosely on the University of York thanks to the author's brief residence there. Its action takes place in the spring term of 1997 (during the time of Tony Blair's landslide victory). Helen Reed, an English novelist in her early forties with two children old enough to look after themselves, arrives on campus to spend the term there as "writer-in-residence" and to teach a creative writing class -- actually sitting in for a professor ...

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Standard Thai, also known as Central Thai or Siamese, is the official language of Thailand, spoken by about 25 million people (1990) including speakers of Bangkok Thai (although the latter is sometimes considered as a separate dialect). Khorat Thai is spoken by about 400,000 (1984) in Nakhon Ratchasima; it occupies a linguistic position somewhere between Central Thai and Isan on a dialect continuu ...

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Subordination is a construction in which at least one clause is dependent on another. The dependent clause is also called the subordinate clause. A subordinate clause is introduced by a complementizer (also known as subordinating conjunction); examples of complementizers in English are after, because, while, that etc. Most complementizers in Irish cause eclipsis and require the dependent form of irregular verbs. The word order in an Irish subordinate clause is the same as in a main clause. The types of subordination discussed here are: complementation, relative clauses, and wh-questions (which are ...

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Philosophy of language - Composition and parts. A major question in the field - perhaps the single most important question for formalist and structuralist thinkers - is, "how does the meaning of a sentence emerge out of its parts?" Much about composition of sentences is addressed in the work of linguistics of syntax. More logic-oriented semantics tend to look towards the principle of compositionality in order to explain the relationship between meaningful parts and whole sentences. The princ ...

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