Artichoke

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The relationship between client and designer can make or break a project. A successful working partnership is founded on trust, communication and respect – and it is these characteristics that often lead to the best work. As designers, it is your res

The Christian Science Monitor

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Today you can “friend” people with the touch of a key on Facebook. But etymologically speaking, “friendship” is much more intense.

Farmer's Weekly

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(Pan, R285), ranger Alex van den Heever and tracker Renias Mhlongo recall the challenges of building trust and a working relationship at Londolozi Game Reserve. Their experiences can serve as a guide to forging successful multicultural business relat

3D World

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In order to make the overall piece look like finished work, avoid leaving your section in its default T or A pose like you might do for something that’s going to go on to rigging. Try to give some character or story to your part by giving it some exp

Writer's Digest

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Presenting at writing conferences can be a great opportunity to grow your readership or brand. These gigs facilitate amplifying your message, while getting your name out and establishing new contacts. Consider these presenting dos and don’ts for any

POPSUGAR

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If you're caught in the tortuous cycle of snapping at your kids and then feeling guilty for the way you've spoken to them, Rose & Rex's Education Director Lauren Vien, M. Ed. can sympathize. As a mom with over a decade of experience teaching in priva

Faces

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Hi, Kylie! My name is Iara (pronounced Ee-ara). I’m from Brazil. Our friend Suzanne told me about the articles you write and I think you’re doing an awesome job. It’s so nice to know that young people are interested in writing and learning about ne

that's life

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People who are being deceitful tend to gesture after making a statement rather than before or while they’re speaking. They also tend to turn their palms away or hide their hands. When people are worried about being caught out in a lie, it causes chan

Nautilus

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Many of us have been taught that pronouncing vowels indistinctly and dropping consonants are symptoms of slovenly speech, if not outright disregard for the English language. The Irish playwright St. John Ervine viewed such habits as evidence that som

Writing Magazine

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There’s a good chance you’ve come across people labelled as ‘having an attitude problem’. You may even have been described as that person yourself. Irritated by the slightest thing, like the toothpaste tube being squeezed from its mid-section rather

Malaysia Tatler

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Ever been at a party when the conversation veered towards a topic you know next to nothing about? Talking Points, our new monthly series, arms you with intel from experts so you can engage with authority. Stay tuned for next month’s theme—fancy a qui

You South Africa

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DURING a recent conversation involving several people, one person repeatedly pronounced “vice versa” as “visa versa” and, in an effort to be polite, no one attempted to correct her. One finds too that people constantly confuse “you’re” with “your”, “

Traces

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The Australian National Dictionary defines ‘dinkum’ as referring to work or ‘a due share of the work’. While the word is often thought to be Australian, it is recorded as having an English origin and can be found within the Lincolnshire dialect. ‘Fai

Backpacker

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HERO SKILL “Adventuring in the backcountry and taking on risky activities with other people is very intimate and consequential. I would recommend entering avalanche terrain with people that you know well and can always count on for good communication

Faces

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1 Brazil is the only Portuguese-speaking country in both North and South America. The first Portuguese colony was established there in 1516. About 98% of Brazilians use it as a first language, but more than 160 indigenous languages are also spoken.

Futurity

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Some of the similarities among human languages may have roots in the brain’s preference for efficient information processing, a new study suggests. “If we look at languages of the world, they are very different on the surface, but they also share a l

TIME

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THE DIN IN BRAZIL’S LOWER HOUSE OF Congress was so loud the seven-term Congressman running for Speaker could barely be heard. His colleagues paid little attention, many speaking over him. Unperturbed, Jair Messias Bolsonaro forged on, waving a newspa

NPR

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NPR's Lulu Garcia-Navarro and puzzlemaster Will Shortz play the puzzle this week with KQED listener Tom Doskow of San Francisco.

Chat

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Schizophasia is the term for disordered speech patterns, a phenomenon which gets its colloquial name from what food dish? The number next to the clue tells you which line the answer is in. There may be two across answers in one line. Down words fill

Woman's Day

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When lockdown started a few months ago, my friend Damien and I decided we’d use the time wisely and learn a new language. Almost three months later, and as restrictions lift, we’re far from bilingual, and while Damien is able to string some sentences

The Paris Review

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We’re away until January 6, but we’re reposting some of our favorite pieces from 2019. Enjoy your holiday! So. We cuss. Some of us cuss by saying mercy me or suffering succotash. I like to say shooty-pooty, which I learned from a nice Baltimore boy

The Atlantic

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It’s nearly impossible to discern when an infant’s babbling turns into a fully formed word.

Futurity

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Language acquisition between birth and 18 is a remarkable feat of cognition, rather than something humans are just hardwired to do, according to new research. Researchers have calculated that, from infancy to young adulthood, learners absorb approxim

MEGA

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Popular Science

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Of the 4 million people marching in the Global Climate Strike on September 20, which took place at 4,500 locations around the globe, only one was a member of the Xabriabá indigenous community in Southern Brazil. Artemisia Xakriabá, a 17-year old acti

Guernica Magazine

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Marie Wilcox is the last fluent speaker of Wukchumni, one of the roughly 130 endangered Native languages in the United States. This documentary follows her efforts to keep her mother tongue alive. The post SIMA Docs: Marie’s Dictionary appeared firs

Creative Nonfiction

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WINNER! Best Essay Prize M.G. LEIBOWITZ lives in New York, New York. Her poetry has recently appeared in Boxcar Poetry Review, Crab Creek Review, Foundry, and The Journal. She is the recipient of CALYX Journal’s 2016 Lois Cranston Memorial Poetry Pri

Real Living Australia

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Surfer

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Do you have other interests besides surfing? Other life-consuming hobbies or sports, complete with their own unique cultures, charmingly peculiar vocabularies, verbal signifiers of who’s part of the in crowd and who’s not? Can you move freely between

BBC Easycook

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