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Southern Traditions: Dialect

 Since I grew up in the South, “Southernspeak” is just part of life for me. Until I got old enough to read extensively, I thought everyone talked the way people around here did. I can’t really include...

18 comments    language regional dialects
Kawasan falls93

Common Cebuano and Filipino Words

Christmas season is fast approaching. In fact, I could already hear Christmas carols and lively Christmas songs being played in the malls. The atmosphere, too, has now started to have the ambience of...

2 comments    entertainment education travel
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[Better than Da Vinci Code !!!] Two cards from the Illuminati Card Game created in 1995 ... several years before 9/11

In 1990, role-playing inventor, Steve Jackson, was planning his newest game, which he would ultimately call the Illuminati -- New World Order Game, or "INWO" for short. As you can see from the picture...

11 comments    entertainment politics funny
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The Sacred Alphabet

Establishing the fact that the Canaanites -GENESIS 10: 15-20 (also called Phoenicians by the Greek) created the alphabet, is a detail in world history which remains in controversy. Herodote and Pline agree...

0 comments    writing bible language
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Bhojpuri songs: Manoj Tiwari

Bhojpuri is a regional dialect of Hindi that is spoken in the Hindi heartland of India. This includes Bihar and Eastern Uttar Pradesh. In recent years Bhojpuri songs have become increasingly popular in...

10 comments    entertainment online music
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My Favorite Southern Expressions: A Canuck in the Land of the Southern Belle

Eat up with the dumb-ass Balls to the walls People would look at my feet all the time...to see if I was barefoot. Older than dirt gimme some sugar You goin Jukin tonight? He sure is puny She treats...

16 comments    fun humor funny
Patty Inglish, MS profile image82

Slang and Language Change

This is information about langages, their relatedness, and how languages change. Slang is a part of this change process over the decades and centuries and really very interesting.

7 comments    education language english
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Arabic Jabal Girls

In Arabic the word 'jabal' means mountainous. These girls, like many Arab girls, illustrate that 'mountainous' is one way to describe their attractive figures. Arabic is a language spoken by more than...

7 comments    love girls language
Stone inscriptions in Pali74

The Pali Language

The Pali Language (inflected language) has undoubtedly a high claim to the attention of the literary world. It has long been a contested point whether the Pali or Sanskrit is the more ancient language of...

11 comments    literature india world
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Dumber Than a Bag of Hammers

Think of this as some of the "left overs" to another article dealing with interesting phrases in the South (See Eating Corn on the Cob Through a Picket Fence). I have lived my entire life south of the Mason...

12 comments    humor language sayings
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