Posts Tagged ‘scientific’

Deictic – English editing.

Friday, February 18th, 2011

Deictic is a word specifying identity or temporal location from the perspective of a speaker or listener in the context in which the communication occurs. It is a word (such as this, that, these, those, now, then) that points to the time, place, or situation in which the speaker is speaking. Words are deictic if their semantic meaning is fixed but their denotational meaning varies depending on time and/or place. Words or phrases that require contextual information to convey any meaning are deictic.
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Niggardly – English editing.

Tuesday, November 9th, 2010

Niggardly has no historical connection with nigger, but because it sounds like it, and probably because it is at the same time a derogatory term, meaning ‘ungenerous with money, time, etc.’ or ‘mean’, it is wise to avoid it. Politicians, both in the US and the UK, have been embarrassed by having uttered it in all innocence and then realized it is politically incorrect.
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Nevertheless – English editing.

Monday, November 8th, 2010

It is quite common to find nevertheless spelled ‘never the less’. Although this is how it was written many centuries ago, the standard modern spelling is as one word.
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Negroid – English editing.

Saturday, November 6th, 2010

The term Negroid belongs to a set of terms introduced by 19th-century anthropologists attempting to categorize human races. Such terms are associated with outdated notions of racial types, and so are now potentially offensive and best avoided.
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Negro – English editing.

Thursday, November 4th, 2010

The word Negro was adopted from Spanish and Portuguese and is first recorded in the mid 16th century. It remained the standard term throughout the 17th-19th centuries and was even used by prominent black American campaigners such as W.E.B. Dubois and Booker T. Washington in the early 20th century. Since the Black Power movement of the 1960s. however when the term black was promoted as an expression of racial pride, Negro (together with related words such as Negress) has dropped out of use and is now likely to seem offensive in both British and US English.
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