Monday, August 29, 2011 at 2:53 am
Jargon is a term that is held to mean a specific set of words and phrases that make up a miniature version of a language. No profession is replete with jargon the way the medical field is. In order to fully understand what a doctor is saying to a patient, one may need a medical [...]
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Tags: Aden, Advances In Medical Technology, Ancient Greeks, Greek Word, Greek Words, Greeks And Romans, Human Experience, Hybrids, Language Class, Latin Terms, Latin Words, Medical Dictionary, Medical Field, Medical Language, Medical Term, Medical Terminology, Medical Terms, Parlance, Prefixes Suffixes And Root Words, Root Word
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Wednesday, August 24, 2011 at 7:36 am
Joseph S. Salemi teaches in the Department of Classical Languages at Hunter College, CUNY. His books of poetry are Formal Complaints, Nonsense Couplets, Masquerade, and The Lilacs on Good Friday. His poems, articles, essays, reviews, and translations have appeared in over one hundred journals world-wide. Two of his most recent essays appear on-line at Barefoot [...]
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Tags: Classical Languages, Couplets, Fellow, Figurative Language, Formal Complaints, Good Friday, Howard Nemerov, Hunter College, Italian Americana, Journals, Lilacs, Literature Award, Memoir, Muse, Nonsense, Poems, Salemi, Translations, University Bookman, Whittaker Chambers
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Friday, August 12, 2011 at 9:29 pm
So you are all grown up and off to college. Life is good and you just want to learn a few tweaks to make it a bit better. Maybe you had never considered it before but learning a secondary language could prove beneficial to you. But why would you choose to teach yourself Spanish and [...]
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Tags: Bilingual Abilities, Chemistry, College Students, Colleges, Community Thanks, Cramming For Exams, Cultures, Diversity, Exchange Student, Extra Cash, Foreign Language, Global Community, Globe, Good Chance, Native Tongue, Reason Three, Secondary Language, Spanish Language, Spanish Software, Tweaks
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