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Proverbium, 2015 The proverb “We are as near Heaven by sea as by land,” or “The way to Heaven is the same from all places,” or the formula “Heaven is as close to X as to Y” entered the English language toward the end of the fifteenth century. The proverb—or at least the
Charles Clay Doyle
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BÉLETER FOR TRANSFERRING LANGUAGE AND CULTURAL MORAL VALUES TO YOUNG MALAY AT PONTIANAK, KALIMANTAN BARAT. [PDF]
, 2011 Bahasa adalah alat komunikasi yang menyampaikan setiap perasaan penuturnya. Ia bisa menyampaikan perasaan sayang, cinta, suka, benci, kecewa, bahkan marah.
Syarifah , Lubna
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The impact of an indigenous proverb on women's mental health: A phenomenological approach
Curationis, 2015 Background Proverbs and idioms represent cultural and societal beliefs and values inherited from the forefathers. An example is lebitla la mosadi ke bogadi.
S. S. Phiri +2 more
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Human Vs. Machines: Who Wins In Semiconductor Market Forecasting? [PDF]
"If you ask ten experts, you will get ten different opinions." This common proverb illustrates the common association of expert forecasts with personal bias and lack of consistency. On the other hand, digitization promises consistency and explainability through data-driven forecasts employing machine learning (ML) and statistical models.
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Advanced Functional Materials, EarlyView.The seed pod valves of Australian Banksia attenuata plants are not simply bi‐layers which bend when dry. These experiments and models reveal complex mechanics, which allow seed release only after several steps of seed pod opening. Stiffness gradients prevent delamination of the valves during loading, and a shape‐memory function protects the seeds ...
Friedrich Reppe +7 more
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Proverbium, 2014 The American proverb, “root hog or die,” though popular in the early nineteenth century, gained widespread use after President Lincoln used it at the Hampton Roads Conference. Newspapers across the country then published contradictory anecdotal accounts
Barry Shelton
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Studia Rossica Posnaniensia, 2019 The article discusses proverb innovations in the aspect of textual criticism. On one hand, their functional specificity allows them to be still considered as fully-featured proverbs, on the other hand, it reveals an array of peculiarities related to ...
Tomasz Szutkowski
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Corpus Linguistic Exploration of Modern Proverb Use and Proverb Patterns
, 2017 In my talk, I present an empirical approach to detecting and describing proverbs as frozen sentences with specific functions in current language use. We have developed this approach in the EU project ‘SprichWort’ (based on the German Reference Corpus ...
Kathrin Steyer
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Irony and Proverb Comprehension in Schizophrenia: Do Female Patients “Dislike” Ironic Remarks?
Schizophrenia Research and Treatment, 2014 Difficulties in understanding irony and sarcasm are part of the social cognition deficits in patients with schizophrenia. A number of studies have reported higher error rates during comprehension in patients with schizophrenia. However, the relationships
A. Rapp +3 more
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