What Is Inkling Language

Directions: Match the meaning in the right column to the correct slang term in the left column. You must complete a minimum of 10 choices. Each additional correct match earns one extra credit point.

This review will focus on the documentary Cracking the Maya Code. Chinese is considered one of the most difficult languages for native English speakers to learn because of the unique grammar and how they have a symbol for every word in their language. Mayan is much harder for reasons we will get to. It was thought to be impossible until recently.

extensive exposure and training. It has no alphabet or symbols, and is spoken only on the

Star-off machine? Whisper-ma-phone? These are just some of the many crazy and bizarre words that Dr. Seuss created and utilized in two of his famous stories, The Sneetches and The Lorax. In The Lorax, the Lorax tried to persuade the Once-ler to not cut down the truffula trees. The Once-ler ignored the Lorax, and he cut them down anyway. As a result, the Lorax had to make all of his friends move away. This caused the Lorax to be alone, so he moved away as well. In The Sneetches, there were two groups, the star-belly sneetches and the sneetches without stars on their bellies. The star-belly sneetches were known as “the best type of sneetch” because they had stars. Since the star-bellies were known as the best, the sneetches without stars

Ha, ha! That’s right, fool! Now I’m flying, talking donkey! You might have seen a housefly, maybe even a superfly but I bet you ain’t never seen a donkey fly.

Mr. McWhorter exemplifies that with people using the abbreviation "LOL" (laugh out loud). While at first the meaning was intended to just mean laugh out loud, it has taken a more generalized approach in it's use today. He states that "LOL" is much more used to express empathy to the person receiving, and not so much it's prior definition. He provides examples to show how words change over time as in silly meaning blessed in the past. Other words that have changed are gay (happy), bitch (female dog), and awful (to

Overall wordplay can almost always result with a laugh. It takes a word that is similar to another

The rhyming scheme uses irregular couplets such as “matter” and “chatter” on different lines. This

Everything is interconnected and deep down we all speak the same language. The Alchemist has many themes one of which is all creation speaks one language and the earth has a soul. It is important to know the language of the world so that one can understand how things happen.

Language is the the primary way of communicating with one another. This can be written or spoken.

Although Ms. Wallraff wants the English Language to be the universal language and wishes everyone to speak the language, she seems skeptical about the implementation of the language and wonder if everyone would be able to understand the language. No doubt, English is a globally-recognized language, but it seems

　　　　Language is an essential part of our daily lives. Language is used to communicate with other people to meet our needs and satisfy our understandings. Everyone uses one language or another. Some have an advantage and are able to use

Ken Wiwa presents several ideas pertaining to language and culture within his essay, Get Beyond Babel. Wiwa explains that every language has a chance of dying out over time. For any language to survive through years of societal changes, it must be adapted so it can be used to embrace other cultures, new technology and new perspectives. Wiwa presents the concept that language is the same as culture. I do not agree with this concept because I believe that culture is carried by the people, not by the language.

“Syllabics” is a language that uses written symbols to represent syllables. These syllables are put together to form words. The

Although, there is no agreed definition of language among linguists, but we can say that language is the most sophisticated way of communication between any two human beings and far more complex than any other system of communication. The ability of acquiring and using languages is one of the properties that differs us as human beings from other species.