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    Merry Am Webster!

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    What makes a word interesting? I ask this rhetorically, not inviting specific response. One has only to scan Word Ways articles to realize that some logophiles fancy word length, while others prefer word construction, word sounds, geographical names, and so forth. Chacun a son gout! The charm of any word obviously lies in the eye of the beholder

    Taking the Word of God to Others

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    ...But let me take you to my village and just think for one moment what it would feel like to be holding the Bible in your own heart language. It\u27s a second revision or the first revision of the Bible in there with Genesis and Exodus. But I wanted to take you back to my village in there where today you either go by airplane, missionary airplane, or you go to the end of the road and travel 3 hours by canoe going upstream

    On word-representability of polyomino triangulations

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    A graph G=(V,E)G=(V,E) is word-representable if there exists a word ww over the alphabet VV such that letters xx and yy alternate in ww if and only if (x,y)(x,y) is an edge in EE. Some graphs are word-representable, others are not. It is known that a graph is word-representable if and only if it accepts a so-called semi-transitive orientation. The main result of this paper is showing that a triangulation of any convex polyomino is word-representable if and only if it is 3-colorable. We demonstrate that this statement is not true for an arbitrary polyomino. We also show that the graph obtained by replacing each 44-cycle in a polyomino by the complete graph K4K_4 is word-representable. We employ semi-transitive orientations to obtain our results

    On describing word order

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    One aspect that is always discussed in language descriptions, no matter how short they may be, is word order. Beginning with Greenberg 1963, it has been common to talk about word order using expressions such as "X is an SOV language", where "S" represents "subject", "0" represents "object", and "V" represents "verb". Statements such as this are based on an assumption of comparability, an assumption that all languages manifest the categories represented by "S", "0", and "V" (among others), and that word order in all languages can be described (and compared) using these categories

    Service as e-ducare

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    The word “education” originated from the Latin word e-ducare, meaning “To bring out from within”. This ancient educational philosophy of “bringing out from within” carries through to modern times. One way modern colleges and universities apply this philosophy is by offering and implementing service opportunities, encouraging students to bring out their underlying skills to help others. Projects created by students’ own initiatives or with student involvement are more likely to be successful, because the service will bring out students’ underlying talents

    Equations solvable by radicals in a uniquely divisible group

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    We study equations in groups G with unique m-th roots for each positive integer m. A word equation in two letters is an expression of the form w(X,A) = B, where w is a finite word in the alphabet {X,A}. We think of A,B in G as fixed coefficients, and X in G as the unknown. Certain word equations, such as XAXAX=B, have solutions in terms of radicals, while others such as XXAX = B do not. We obtain the first known infinite families of word equations not solvable by radicals, and conjecture a complete classification. To a word w we associate a polynomial P_w in Z[x,y] in two commuting variables, which factors whenever w is a composition of smaller words. We prove that if P_w(x^2,y^2) has an absolutely irreducible factor in Z[x,y], then the equation w(X,A)=B is not solvable in terms of radicals.Comment: 18 pages, added Lemma 5.2. To appear in Bull. Lon. Math. So

    KO AND RIKA IN JAVANESE OF TEGAL

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    Javanese has a variety of dialects and one of them is the one spoken in Tegal and its surrounding regions such as Pemalang and Brebes. The language variation used in the region is characterized, among others, by the pronunciation of some words which are different from the Javanese standard language spoken in Surakarta and Yogyakarta. To give an example, the Javanese word “sapa”, is pronounced [sapa] in Tegal, while the same word is pronounced [sOpO] in Surakarta and Yogyakarta. This paper will try to explore the word ko and rika, two address terms used in Tegal region. The discussion will cover the questions such as: what are these two words, when and where do we use them, whom do we speak to using the words and what factors may influence the use of the two words
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