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“I would prefer not to.” —Bartleby In one of the final post cards in his book, The Post Card, Jacques Derrida provides his readers with a short philosophical discussion—“for your distraction,” he says. It goes like this: ‘—What is it, a destination?—There where it arrives.—So then everywhere that it arrives there was a destination?—Yes.—But not before?—No.—That’s convenient, since if it arrives there, it is that it was destined to arrive there. But then one can only say so after the fact?—When

Language, in its simplest form, provides humans a way to communicate with each other to express needs, desires, and emotions in general. Without even thinking about it, speech is a tool that we use every day at work or in casual conversation, and that our lives would be completely different without. Humans learn a first language (L1) around the age of 1, and there is a sort of innateness for it to be acquired—our brains are ready for it. However, acquiring a second language can often times be a different

CONTENTS INTRODUCTION . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . ……………….………..4 1. THEORETICAL SURVEY..………………………….……..........................5 1.1. Ways of expressions future actions. Diachronic approach...........................5 1.2. The synchronic analysis. Future tenses.........................................................9 1.3. Forms of expressing futurity……………......................................…….....14 2. LINGUISTIC INVESTIGATION........................................

Traffic. Dir. Steven Soderbergh. Perf. Michael Douglas, Benicio Del Toro, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Dennis Quaid. USA Films, 2000. Blow. Dir. Ted Demme. Perf. Johnny Depp, Penelope Cruz, Paul Reubens, Ray Liotta. New Line Cinema, 2001. 1. Just as the intoxicating sensations of different drugs are incommensurable with one another, so films about different drugs tend to have radically different themes and effects. In American popular culture perhaps the illegal

Historical background | This section does not cite any references or sources. Please help improve this section by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. (June 2009) | The English language was first introduced to the Americas by British colonization, beginning in 1607 in Jamestown, Virginia. Similarly, the language spread to numerous other parts of the world as a result of British trade and colonization elsewhere and the spread of the former British