What Does Love Mean to a Four-Year-Old? | John Mark Ministries. A group of professional people posed this question to a group of 4 to 8 year-olds, “What does love mean?” The answers they got were broader and deeper than anyone could have imagined. See what you think: “When my grandmother got arthritis, she couldn’t bend over and paint her toenails anymore. So my grandfather does it for her all the time, even when his hands got arthritis too. That’s love.” Rebecca- age 8 “When someone loves you, the way they say your name is different. “Love is when a girl puts on perfume and a boy puts on shaving cologne and they go out and smell each other.”
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The New York Times recently published a list of 50 fancy words that most frequently stump their readership. They are able to measure this data thanks to a nifty in-page lookup mechanism, which you can try here. Try double-clicking the word “epicenter”. Since the NYT didn’t include definitions of these words, I decided to post a job to MediaPiston to produce an article defining and using each word in the list.
Voila! Just a few hours later, here it is. So avoid coming across as jejune and laconic in your speech. The New York Times 50 Fancy Words (defined and used) 1. 2. 3. 4. 5. 6. 7. 8. 9. 10. 11. 12. 13. 14. 15. 16. 17. 18. 19. 20. 21. 22. 23. 24. 25. 26. 27. 28. 29. 30. 31. 32. 33. 34. 35. 36. 37. 38. 39. 40. 41. 42. 43. 44. 45. 46. 47. 48. 49. 50. Mamihlapinatapai. The word Mamihlapinatapai (sometimes spelled mamihlapinatapei) is derived from the Yaghan language of Tierra del Fuego, listed in The Guinness Book of World Records as the "most succinct word", and is considered[by whom?]
One of the hardest words to translate. It allegedly refers to "a look shared by two people, each wishing that the other will offer something that they both desire but are unwilling to suggest or offer themselves. "[1] A slightly different interpretation of the meaning also exists: "It is that look across the table when two people are sharing an unspoken but private moment. When each knows the other understands and is in agreement with what is being expressed. An expressive and meaningful silence. It is also referenced in Defining the World in a discussion of the difficulties facing Samuel Johnson in trying to arrive at succinct, yet accurate, definitions of words.[5] In popular culture[edit] References[edit] Jump up ^ Peter Matthews, Norris McWhirter.
Intrinsic Grammar. Linguistics Babel's children Jan 8th 2004 | LEIPZIG From The Economist print edition Languages may be more different from each other than is currently supposed. That may affect the way people think IT IS hard to conceive of a language without nouns or verbs. This sort of observation flies in the face of conventional wisdom about what language is. Dr Gil contends, however, that there is a risk of unconscious bias leading to the conclusion that a particular sort of grammar exists in an unfamiliar language.
It need not, however, be a modern language. The difficulty is compounded if a linguist is not fluent in the language he is studying. The experiment, though, was not entirely successful: when the boys realised his intention, they began to speak more formally. Dr Boroditsky's experiment is simple. Dr Gil believes that this might be because time is, in English, an integral grammatical concept—every verb must have a tense, be it past, present or future. That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is. That that is is that that is not is not is that it it is is an English word sequence demonstrating lexical ambiguity. It is used as an example illustrating the importance of proper punctuation.[1] The sequence can be understood as either of two sequences, each with four discrete sentences, by adding punctuation: That that is, is.
That that is not, is not. Is that it? It is. That that is is that that is. This relates a simple philosophical proverb in the style of Parmenides that all that is, is, and that anything that does not exist does not. A similar sequence, consisting of only one sentence and no punctuation, is: That that that is that that is not is not that that is that that is is not true is not true. Which can be made clearer by the use of synonyms and punctuation: The idea, that the statement "what is that, which does not exist, is not that, what is that, which exists" is false, is incorrect.
There is a slightly longer construct following a similar pattern: That that is is.