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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 46, Number1

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Front cover and publication information for this issue, including the table of contents.

The Meaning Of Time, Solomon W. Golomb

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The English word TIME has multiple meanings which would require at least three distinct words when translated into other languages. Consider the following three answers to the simple-sounding question "what time was it?"

a. It was 9 a.m. b. It was the third time. c. It was during the tenth century.

Colloquy

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A collection of responses to previously published articles.

Art Begins At Forty, Jeremy Morse

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No abstract available.

Let's Go By Wisconsin, Glenn G. Dahlem

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Persons who grew up in Wisconsin don't always realize the profound yet subtle influence European languages have had on the English currently spoken there. Many of the idioms. colloquialisms and linguistic patterns in use in the Badger state are descended from similar ones found in many European tongues. One scholar once remarked that language patterns found in New York City and Wisconsin are the same, excepts in Wisconsin farmland separates the various ethnic neighborhoods.

Kickshaws, Richard Lederer

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A collection of linguistic kickshaws.

Dissing And Hocking: More Amusing Bloopers And Snappy Comebacks, Dan Hauptman

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A collection of media bloopers.

My Favorite Magic, Norwich Bumstead

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A word puzzle.

Funny Words 5, . Anil

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A list of funny words.

Curiosities Of The Lake, Walt Quader

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There's a curious dieseling "SAMUEL SAMUEL CLEMENS SAMUEL CLEMENS CLEMENS" sequence in Mark Twain's Roughing It, in the 'Curiosities of the Lake' story.

A Hundred-Word Way, Walt Quader

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A new draft of a post first published in Wordfun, 2004 March 21.

Anagram Quiz 9, . Anil

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A quiz.

Damn Mad Boring Trifler?, A. Ross Eckler

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Dimitri Alfred Borgmann, the father of recreational linguistics, crafted the anagram of his name that is the title of this chapter. Damn mad? yes, if one take this palindromic phrase to mean "carried away by enthusiasm or desire." Boring trifler? never.

Definitive Anagrams: P, . Anil

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Continued from and as in August.

Good-Night Alphabet, David Morice

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A poem.

A Puzzle-Game For "Brains", Jeremiah Farrell

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A Puzzle.

Neologisms: Beginning With Letters T Through Z, J. James Mancuso

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No abstract available.

Group Therapy, Steve Kahan

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Each of the twenty offerings below displays alphabetically-ordered initials, sans one, corresponding to a familiar set of elements. To achieve your objective, you must properly identify the collections, fill in the blank, and delineate all of the members of the set.

Poetry In Latinglish, J. James Mancuso

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An explanation and rules for creating Latinglish poetry.

Problem Solving Strategies In Boggle-Like Games, Benjamin Dickman

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George Polya's seminal work "How to Solve it" describes general methods for approaching and solving mathematical problems. The book begins with Polya's four principles for solving a problem: understand the problem, make a plan, carry out the plan, and look back. Much of the remainder of the book is devoted to an encyclopedic listing of different heuristics for use in mathematical problem solving. Polya's work can also be applied in problem solving settings outside of mathematics. For example, to clarify the role of his four principles in tackling a new problem, Polya explores the following non-mathematical question: what single English …

French Numbers, Darryl Francis

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Word Ways has previously published articles containing transposals and transadditions of the number names, the cardinals, ZERO, ONE, TWO and so on. It has also listed words from which multiple number names can be spelled out (eg TOWNHOUSE contains ONE and TWO, and CONFECTIONERY contains ONE, FORTY and FORTY-ONE).

Answers And Solutions

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Answers and solutions to the puzzles contained in this issue.

Instructions To Authors

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Instructions to authors and back cover.

Overlaps Part 1, Susan Thorpe

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If the two words PANT and TRY are merged so that the two letter Ts overlap we obtain the word PANTRY. In other words, the parent word PANTRY will split into the offspring PANT and TRY by duplicating the T. Overlaps may be of any length and can occur anywhere in a word except for the first and last letters.

What Could Be Gained In Translation: Legal Language And Lawyer-Linguists In A Globalized World, Samantha Hargitt

Indiana Journal of Global Legal Studies

Translation and interpretation have long played a vital role in many legal contexts, from providing equal rights to defendants to facilitating mutual understanding among the members of the United Nations. Legal language, though, is incredibly complex and even faithfully equivalent translations can fail to meet the high standards required for operation in international legal contexts, where a lack of understanding over a single term could mean the difference between a material and non-material breach in a treaty or transnational contract. Branches of linguistics, such as comparative legal linguistics and forensic linguistics, study the characteristics and functions of legal language across …

Enhancing Memory Access For Less-Skilled Readers, Emily R. Smith

Doctoral Dissertations

Ericcson and Kintch (1995) suggested that less-skilled readers often have an impoverished representation of text. The results of five experiments demonstrated that the addition of causality enhanced the text representation of less-skilled readers. Experiments 1-3 showed that the addition of causal information enhanced less-skilled readers' ability to detect global inconsistencies. Experiments 4 and 5 showed that the addition of causal information to updating information resulted in less-skilled readers updating to the same extent as skilled readers.

Connecting Classrooms: Russian Language Teaching Project At Ucf, Alla Kourova

Russian Language Journal

Change happens all the time and in all places. It is a characteristic of our modern world. A current trend in the world is globalization, which occurred by rapid developments in transportation and information technology. Today, people from diverse backgrounds come into more and more contact with each other with a regularity that is unique to this period of human history. As a result, intercultural communication has become increasingly important.

Nonsense And The Freedom Of Speech: What Meaning Means For The First Amendment, Joseph Blocher

Faculty Scholarship

A great deal of everyday expression is, strictly speaking, nonsense. But courts and scholars have done little to consider whether or why such meaningless speech, like nonrepresentational art, falls within “the freedom of speech.” If, as many suggest, meaning is what separates speech from sound and expression from conduct, then the constitutional case for nonsense is complicated. And because nonsense is so common, the case is also important — artists like Lewis Carroll and Jackson Pollock are not the only putative “speakers” who should be concerned about the outcome.

This Article is the first to explore thoroughly the relationship between …

Reconsidering The Puebloan Languages In A Southwestern Areal Context, Michael Sklar Everdell

Honors Papers

Areal linguistics is the study of diffused linguistic features across different languages which are geographically contiguous and culturally connected. My research attempts to standardize definitions for the vocabulary surrounding linguistic diffusion which will apply cross-areally. I also examine these definitions within the case study of the Pueblo and Southwest regions of North America. These areas have been culturally linked, but no agreement has been made as to whether or not these make up a linguistic area with sub-areas or are both part of a much larger area including the Great Basin, southern Plains, and southern Californian languages.

Boom And Whoosh: Verbs Of Explosion As A Change-Of-State Class, Antonio De Jesus Hernandez

Master's Theses

Much research has been done on various semantic verb classes, most notably on break-verbs. In this study, a new class of change-of-state verbs is proposed, namely verbs that encode an explode-event. The research presented here not only offers a new organization of certain change-of-state verbs, but also highlights the issues that are ever-present in the classification of verbs.

Eight verbs are investigated as possible members of this class: blast, blow up, burst, erupt, explode, detonate, go supernova, and pop. Using data from three corpora and survey results from 20 participants, this study …