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Hindi imposition may boomerang

The Siasat Daily 06 May 2022

The flurry of anger and resentment brought about by the statement of Home Minister Amit Shah to make Hindi the language of communication for people of non-Hindi speaking areas as an alternative to English and not regional languages should make BJP wary of touching on this highly sensitive issue ... Hindi should not be promoted at the cost of English.

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Touching moment a schoolboy tells his mum about befriending kids from Ukraine who arrived at ...

The Daily Mail 06 May 2022

Her son told her three new people arrived at his school as she picked him up, filming the conversation in the car. He also revealed the 'important' English words he will teach them first, as his mum struggled not to laugh ... Ms Southwell then asked if they knew English, but was told they had learned a little bit.

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Being different is making people uncomfortable but I don’t care – Edem

Joy Online 06 May 2022

Ghanaian rapper and singer Edem says he is unperturbed about making people uncomfortable just because he is different ... Fusing a little patois with English, he said. “Being different has made you people uncomfortable but me dey ah suh,” ... “People dey rap from the time I dey rap and them still dey rap up till today, them no go fit sing.

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What's behind the Russian phrase: ‘It’s not always Maslenitsa for a cat’

Russia Beyond 06 May 2022

People celebrate this ... Thus, by the end of winter, difficult and hungry times began for people, as well as for cats! There is a popular expression in English - “After Christmas comes Lent”.Proverb immortalized in literature ... Originally, it was translated into English as.

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Jamestown named an endangered historic site as a result of climate change

The Virginian-Pilot 06 May 2022

In 1607, Jamestown became the first permanent English settlement in what would eventually become the United States. A decade later, it became the site at where the first enslaved people arrived. Prior to English colonizers, the site was home to indigenous people for over 12,000 years.

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Team Leader – Planning, Monitoring, Evaluation and Learning

Reliefweb 06 May 2022

In pursuit of sustainable development to benefit Pacific people, our organisation works across more than 20 sectors ... Excellent English communication skills (oral and written) with a working knowledge of French being an advantage ... – SPC’s working languages are English and French.

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Elon Musk left a South Africa that was rife with misinformation and white privilege

Indian Express 06 May 2022

Errol Musk, who was elected to the Pretoria City Council in 1972, said they would ask him about the laws prohibiting Black people from patronizing restaurants, movie theaters and beaches ... The apartheid system created a distinction among white people, specifically between those who spoke Afrikaans and those who spoke English, like Musk’s family.

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Nuclear (em)Power

The Harvard Crimson 06 May 2022

This appeal is what drew Denisse Cordova Carrizales ’23 to study physics ... the disproportionate impact of environmental hazards on people of color ... She released the film first in Spanish, then in English, her bilingual background broadening its reach. She eventually attracted the attention of people who could help animate the film at a higher level ... .

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MIKE TAYLOR: Touching the light with Lucas

Greenville Daily News 06 May 2022

I ran into my friend Sharon at the grocery. After the usual “How have you been what have you been up to” stuff, we got talking about events unfolding in the larger world ... Sharon’s a bit of a philosopher and one smart cookie, though it’s hard to know for sure because she’s English and everything those people say sounds clever and sophisticated ... .

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C. JEMAL HORTON COLUMN: With his dad guiding them, Carnes and his doubles partner, Gomez, ...

Independent Tribune 06 May 2022

People are also reading… ... While the Spaniard speaks really good English, no words are required ... “I knew English but not as good as now,” Gomez said. “The most different thing for me was to understand American accents and how fast people can speak and all those things.

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Sufficiency means degrowth

Resilience 06 May 2022

Should there be more people or wealth, more wilderness or more automobiles, more food for the poor or more services for (he rich?” ... Let me translate in plain English. consuming less and differently is good for people and the planet ... Unless it’s not obvious already, the essential point to grasp here is that rich people must consume less.[iv].

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How our brains influence language change

Phys Dot Org 05 May 2022

Theresa Matzinger and Nikolaus Ritt from the Department of English at the University of Vienna investigated which factors were responsible for these sound changes and what such sound changes can tell us about processing capacities of our brains. People prefer those speech patterns that occur frequently.

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Lost in translation: CM Marte pushes for bilingual street signs in Chinatown

AM New York 05 May 2022

Chen gave an example of a phone call he received in which a person was lost and not being able to read English couldn't find their way to his office ... "Chinatown is off the grid and people are constantly lost," explaining that it can be hard for English speakers at times, let alone those who do not have signs in their language to navigate by.

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‘There’s power in names’: Antigua unearths lost ancestors

Joy Online 05 May 2022

Local historians recently embarked on a ground-breaking project to formally identify the faceless people who built it, whose stories have been wiped from history ... Dr Christopher Waters hopes to help formally identify enslaved people who were erased from history ... ,Artists were tasked with creating faces for the first eight people named.

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Ella Mai Is Back To Claim Her Crown As The Queen Of Cuffing Anthems

Vibe Magazine 05 May 2022

“It’s really special to me because it’s an all-English record. It’s produced by an English producer, written by two English people—three English people including myself I really enjoy working with people that I genuinely get along with, and it feels like friendship.