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    Acronyms, Idioms and Slang: the Evolution of the English Language. Although the English language is only 1500 years old, it has evolved at an incredible rate: so much so, that, at first glance, the average person in America today would find most Shakespearean literature confusing without the aid of an Old-English dictionary or Cliff's Notes. Yet Shakespear lived just 300 years ago! Some are seeing this is a sign of the decline of the English language, that people are becoming less and less literate

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    interfaces over metaphoric design and re-imagining save button tool bar using idioms. Indiana University Arjun S Rao Most People would rather be successful than knowledgeable. The above statement from Cooper lays groundwork for my critical essay, I talk primarily about why Idiomatic interface should be used to design any software product. The class readings I chose are Cooper 3rd pp. 269-285 (Metaphors, Idioms and Affordances), and Lakeoff pp. 1-9(METHAPHORS We Live By) / Hannon (As We

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    interfaces over metaphoric design and re-imagining save button tool bar using idioms. Indiana University Arjun S Rao Most People would rather be successful than knowledgeable. The above statement from Cooper lays groundwork for my critical essay, I talk primarily about why Idiomatic interface should be used to design any software product. The class readings I chose are Cooper 3rd pp. 269-285 (Metaphors, Idioms and Affordances), and Lakeoff pp. 1-9(METHAPHORS We Live By) / Hannon (As We

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    distance and proximity as a “social idiom” in their everyday lives. If there is an altercation or disagreement between certain groups, members of these groups will pitch their tents at opposing ends of the campsite. Another sign of social space can also be when households of herders’ pitch each of their tents either close or far from one another, either to be near their merged animals or to avoid that very same act with others. Basseri also show this “social idiom” when they migrate as well, for instance

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    In this study, the mixed approach (qualitative and quantitative) is used since it is intentional integration and combination of qualitative and quantitative approaches features at different levels in research process and the research assumptions can be understood and corroborated deeply (Creswell and Clark 2007). The concept of mixed method emerged in 1959 when multi-methods were used to study the validity of psychological traits by Campbell and Fisk (Tashakkori and Teddlie 2002). Different terms

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    The process of changing or transferring the meaning of a text in the original (source) language in to the target languagecan be performed by whether human, i.e. human translation, or machine, i.e. automated\machine translation.Jelinek (2004) maintained that human translation or HT is the transitional process done by one or more human beings. Homiedan (1998) defines machine translation or MT as an automatic translation of one language into another by means of a computer or another machine that contains

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    Language is a media to make a relationship between people in this world. Language is used in human communication in a daily conversation, bussiness, and many aspect of live in order to coorporate and solve the human problems. This is done because human is a communal people whom they always interact with another people. Communication has became as their daily needs and it cannot avoidable from their live. Therefore, language in human communication cannot be separated each other. As a foreign language

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    sentence should be preserved, but because of differences between two languages, often, this is not possible. In this chapter, the key concepts of this research will be introduced. First, some common definitions of translation and idiom, characteristics and types of idioms will be investigated. Next, the researcher will discuss strategies of

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    Introduction Cultural difference was used to be seen as an impassable gap between intercultural communications, but that was when people from various cultures didn’t get the chance to communicate. With the development of internet and transportation, people have become closer to each other and known better about other people’s cultures. Nowadays, culture has been even seen as a way to solve problems in the process of translation. Translators combine their linguistic strategies with cultural knowledge

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    linguistics is the study of fixed expressions such as lexical bundles, idioms, phrasal verbs, and all types of multi-word expressions (Granger &Meunier, 2008). Phraseology has received much attention over the past few decades and the pioneer of phraseological studies was Charles Bally who worked on Russian lexicography in the 1930s and 1940s. Besides, one of the earliest researchers of phraseology in English language

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