Adopted Words Log in or Sign up Adopted Words English vocabulary for parts of an office online exercise part 1 In the following conversation Jane is showing a visitor, Simon, around the the office where she works. From the context, try to guess what the object or place is in an office of the words in bold below. Then do the quiz at the end to check if you are right. Jane:'You must be Simon?' Simon:'Yes, that's right.' Jane:'My name's Jane. Simon:'Please to meet you too Jane:'Did you find us ok?' Simon:'Yes I did. Jane:'You should have parked your car in the office's car park. Simon:'I'll know next time.' Jane:'Well, before the meeting starts I'll take you on a quick tour of the office.' Simon:'Ok.' Jane:'Well, this obviously is the reception which is at the entrance to the office.' Simon:'How many floors are there in the office?' Jane:'There are 6 floors in total. Are you hungry?' Simon:'No, I'm not.' Jane:'If you want to have lunch or get something to eat like a sandwich, you can use the staff canteen. Simon:'Where is it?' Jane:'You see the corridor, the long narrow passage in front of us?' Simon:'Yes.'
Words Domination Home A Part of Conversation Questions for the ESL Classroom. Related: Accidents at Home, House Renovation, Can you describe each room of your house? What does the outside of your house look like? Where do you park your car at your house Do you like the place where you are living? If you can think of another good question for this list, please add it. Thanks to Janice Weiss (Chicago, USA) for suggesting this topic and submitting the initial set of questions. Derek Abbott's Animal Noise Page In different languages what do we say to mimic animal sounds? Below is the world's biggest multilingual list. A guiding principle behind this list is to visualise a comic book, in your language, and imagine what would be written in the text balloon coming from the mouth of an animal. See also: In different languages what do we say when we tell an animal to do something? In different languages what are the most typical names we give to our pets or animals in children's story books?
List of forms of word play This is a list of techniques used in word play with Wikipedia articles. Techniques that involve the phonetic values of words Mondegreen: a mishearing (usually unintentional) ase as a homophone or near-homophone that has as a result acquired a new meaning. Techniques that involve semantics and the choosing of words Anglish: a writing using exclusively words of Germanic originAuto-antonym: a word that contains opposite meaningsAutogram: a sentence that provide an inventory of its own charactersMalapropism: incorrect usage of a word by substituting a similar-sounding word with different meaningNeologism: creating new words Portmanteau: a new word that fuses two words or morphemesRetronym: creating a new word to denote an old object or concept whose original name has come to be used for something elseOxymoron: a combination of two contradictory termsPun: deliberately mixing two similar-sounding wordsSlang: the use of informal words or expressions Techniques that involve the formation of a name
Fnord The word is often used in newsgroup and hacker culture to indicate that someone is being ironic, humorous, or surreal.[1] Often placed at the end of a statement in brackets (fnord) to make the ironic purpose clear, it is a label that may be applied to any random or surreal sentence, coercive subtext, or anything jarringly out of context (intentionally or not). It is sometimes used as a metasyntactic variable in programming.[2] It appears in the Church of the SubGenius recruitment film Arise! and has been used in the SubGenius newsgroup alt.slack.[citation needed] Origins[edit] The word was coined as a nonsensical term with religious undertones in the Discordian parody of religious texts, Principia Discordia (1965) by Kerry Thornley and Greg Hill, but was popularized by The Illuminatus! In the novel trilogy (and the plays), the interjection "fnord" is given hypnotic power over the unenlightened. Ironic, humorous or surreal use[edit] Use in computing[edit] See also[edit] Culture of fear
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index.html Una raccolta di parole interessanti e difficili da pronunciare. Indice Cangiante Che cambia colore. Perspicuo Facile da capire. Fumisteria Discorso difficile ma inconsistente, vuoto. Gematria Numerologia; assegnare dei numeri a lettere, parole per cercare di scoprire un messaggio nascosto. Relapso Chi, dopo la conversione, torna alla religione precedente; per estensione: chi ritratta durante un processo. Tetragrammaton Le quattro lettere (Tetra - Grammaton) che secondo la tradizione ebraica compongono il nome di Dio. Sinarchia Sistema di potere in cui più si conosce più si ha potere. Insipienza Ignoranza. Contumacia Assenza dell’imputato in un processo. Unheimlich [Ted.] Locupletare Arricchire. Polilalia [Bibl.] Sardanapalesco Pomposo, sfasrzoso, sfrenato. Ciurmadore Ciarlatano. Plutocrate Chi, grazie alla sua disponibilità economica, influenza la sfera politica (e non solo). Sicumera Presuntuosa superiorità. Santabarbara Deposito di munizioni.Situazione rischiosa, esplosiva. Caudillo Duce, leader autoritario. Anomìa
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