Are some languages better than others?

📁 Are some languages better than others?

✍ Dixon, Robert M. W. 📂 Library 📅 2016 🏛 Oxford University Press 🌐 English

This book sets out to answer a question that many linguists have been hesitant to ask: are some languages better than others? Can we say, for instance, that because German has three genders and French only two, German is a better language in this respect? Jarawara, spoken in the Amazonian jungle, ha

Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than

📁 Bad Language: Are Some Words Better than Others?

✍ Edwin L. Battistella 📂 Library 📅 2005 🌐 English

📁 Bad language : Are some words better than others?

✍ Battistella, Edwin L 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Oxford : Oxford University Press 🌐 English

Is today's language at an all-time low? Edwin Battistella argues that it is wrong to think of slang, regional dialects and nonstandard grammar as simply breaking the rules of good English. Reexamining debates over relativism in language, Battistella argues that we should view language as made up of

Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers Are Be

📁 Made, Not Born: Why Some Soldiers Are Better Than Others

✍ Bruce Newsome 📂 Library 📅 2007 🏛 Praeger 🌐 English

Why do the combat capabilities of individual soldiers vary so much? This book seeks to provide an answer to this and other questions about variability in combat performance. Some soldiers flee quickly from the battlefield, while others endure all hardships until the bitter end. Some combat units can

Some Are Sicker Than Others

📁 Some Are Sicker Than Others

📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Flophouse Books

<p class="description">literary fiction, dark comedy, realism, addiction, alcoholism, depression, mind body soul, spiritual awakening, life changing, suspenseful, drama, real life situations, dark drama, addiction and recovery, urban crime, transgressional fiction, medical crime, urban bestseller, a

Some Are Sicker Than Others

📁 Some Are Sicker Than Others

📂 Fiction 📅 2015 🏛 Flophouse Books

<p class="description">literary fiction, dark comedy, realism, addiction, alcoholism, depression, mind body soul, spiritual awakening, life changing, suspenseful, drama, real life situations, dark drama, addiction and recovery, urban crime, transgressional fiction, medical crime, urban bestseller, a

Are some languages better than others?

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