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A Framework To Understand Emoji Meaning: Similarity And Sense Disambiguation Of Emoji Using Emojinet, Sanjaya Wijeratne

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Pictographs, commonly referred to as `emoji’, have become a popular way to enhance electronic communications. They are an important component of the language used in social media. With their introduction in the late 1990’s, emoji have been widely used to enhance the sentiment, emotion, and sarcasm expressed in social media messages. They are equally popular across many social media sites including Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. In 2015, Instagram reported that nearly half of the photo comments posted on Instagram contain emoji, and in the same year, Twitter reported that the `face with tears of joy’ emoji has been tweeted 6.6 …

Localizational Evidence For The Restoration Of Rigvedic *Mimihí ‘Measure’.” In Vina Diem Celebrent: Studies In Linguistics And Philology In Honor Of Brent Vine, Dieter Gunkel

Classical Studies Faculty Publications

The purpose of this study is to provide new evidence for the existence of the 2 sg present active imperative *mimihí ‘measure’ in the Rigveda. Controlling to an extent for the effects of morphosyntax, I show that the poets do not localize the forms transmitted as mimihí in the meter similarly to the way that they localize forms of the same metrical/phonological shape, e.g. did¯ıhí ‘shine’, ´si´s¯ıhí ‘sharpen’, gr.n. ¯ıhí ‘sing’. Instead, they localize them like forms of the shape *mimihí , e.g. kr.n. uhí ‘make’, ´sr.n.uhí ‘hear’, tanuhi ‘stretch’. Thus we should restore *mimihí . I then …

License To Ill: Slang And Uncertainty As Motivational Accounts For Group Identification, Benny Chu

Cal Poly Humboldt theses and projects

People use verbal communication with other group members as unique social identity markers. Individual’s word choices adjust and change based on the group to which the individual belongs. For example, regional slang allows for people to view themselves as a distinct group represented in a particular geographic location (e.g., Northern Californians and the term “hella”). As a result, when individuals recognize the informal language (slang) of their fellow group members, they should feel confident and included in their group. However, when individuals hear their peers communicate norms by using slang with which they are unfamiliar, it should create …

Separation Events In Modern Greek, Vasiliki Lydia Rounti

Master's Theses

The semantic domain of separation events has been studied for a number of languages. In this thesis, a study on how Modern Greek expresses separation events and how semantically distinct they are from other languages is presented. This is the first study on the semantic features of separation events for Modern Greek. Furthermore, it is the only study so far on separation events for which data have been gathered from a large number of native speakers. Thus, this thesis not only offers a great insight on the language’s semantic structures, but it also presents more concrete observations and conclusions compared …

Elip Builds On International Certificate Program During Iew 2017, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Molina Herrera Wins First Place In Opie Writing Contest, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Bychkovska Lee Coauthor Article On Recurrent Multiword Expressions In Student Writing, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Undecided She Found Passion For Language And Culture, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Norwegian Missionary Linguistic Mishap, Ben Bowen

USU Student Folklore Fieldwork

[Interviewer introduces the topic of a family legend about the informant’s religious, LDS mission to Norway, and some of the linguistic troubles some of the American missionaries had while learning Norwegian.]

Well the fun part about learning a new language is that you get to learn that they have, different words for, to mean different things. So a good example of that in English is change, and, in English you can have change on a dollar and so you have coins, or you can have, um, a, change your clothes, from you know, change your clothes, you can change you …

On Cliché: Expression, Cognition And Understanding, Craig Jordan-Baker

Journal of Creative Writing Studies

Abstract: This paper argues that cliché is not simply a problem of language and expression, but rather a cognitive problem or one of understanding. It locates several distinctive features of cliché, namely their characteristic superficiality (low informational content) and the typically low cognitive effort they require to understand. It then argues for a distinction between ‘external’ and ‘internal’ clichés, where the former are the well-known phrases commonly recognised as clichés, but the latter are not recognised as clichés but nevertheless function as clichés within a specific literary work.

Spring 2018 New Linguistics Courses Studies In Forensics And World Englishes, Ohio University College Of Arts & Sciences

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Front Cover And Publication Information, Volume 50, Issue 4

Word Ways

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

A New Letter-Unit Retep Sonnet, Jim Puder

Word Ways

An explanation of and example of a letter unit rhymed, end to end palidromic verse of four or more lines (RETEP).

Yet Another Three Doublets, Daniel W. Galef

Word Ways

The fourth in a series of word ladder puzzle poems coined "Doublets" by Lewis Carroll.

Word Ways To Go Entirely Online In 2018

Word Ways

An announcement about future publication of the journal.

Word Segments Reordered, Susan Thorpe

Word Ways

This is a different type of transposal. A word is cut through in one or more places to make 2 or more words. These words are then reordered to make a phrase of 2 (usually) or more words.

Duplex Name Palindromes, Jim Puder

Word Ways

This article identifies a number of relatively reversal-tolerant familiar duplex names and incorporates them into palindromic passages.

Some Capital People, William Brandt

Word Ways

A collection of limericks using capital cities.

Definitive Anagrams: A-Sk, . Anil

Word Ways

These are largely catch-ups of new anagrams and polyanagrams from earlier letters.

Alphametics, Steven Kahan

Word Ways

A mathematical game.

More Configuration Puzzle-Games, Jeremiah Farrell

Word Ways

A collection of puzzles

Anagram Quiz 23, . Anil

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A quiz.

Colloquy

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Readers' responses to recently published articles.

Some More Possessions, Jim Puder

Word Ways

A follow up to Susan Thorpe's article in the May 2017 issue concerning phrases which consist of the possessive of a personal name and some noun or noun phrase with which it is familiarly linked.

Getting There Is Half The Pun: "Selected Shorts" From 17 Years Of Wordplay Articles, Don Hauptman

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A collection of the author's best contributions to Word Ways over the years.

A Body In The Restaurant: Three Palindromic Puzzles, Lori Wike

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Three puzzles in the form of palindromes together solve the mystery.

Preferred Gender Pronouns: A He/He/He Perspective, Steve Baggish

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While this is a serious and important sociocultural issue that warrants further discussion, I will leave that task to the true scholars amongst us. As for me, a lifelong punster and logophile, I can not resist the temptation to play around with the way PGP's sound when read aloud. This experimentation led me to create a list of celebrities, character and miscellaneous classifications of people, paired wit the PGP's that would be "appropriate" for them.

Muncipal Trios, Steve Kahan

Word Ways

A quiz of city names that all have a letter appearing exactly three times in their names.

Palimerick Experiments, Lori Wike

Word Ways

Writing palindrome limericks can be a fairly tricky feat.

Removing Like Letters To Leave A Word, Susan Thorpe

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Like letters are removed from a 2-word phrase to leave another word.