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...e been effected that, we hope, willincrease the usefulness of the book. These include a means of showing stress groups to facilitate pronunciation of words with more than three syllables; indication of Hawaiian parts of speech; scientific names of plants changed since the early 1950s; additional ancestral reconstructions; classical origins of Hawaiian borrowings; correctio...
...In the revised dictionary we have attempted to credit Greek, Hebrew, and Latin as sources of many loan words in Hawaiian, drawing on Elbert and Knowlton's unpublished paper (1985) that lists words probably from Greek (mostly in the New Testament), Hebrew (mostly in the Old Testament), and Latin (mostly of non-Hawaiian animals ...
...Information Technology Tales By expanding the sharing of knowledge, time after time InfoTech upset the ... ...wer within major civilizations. BRAD BRADFORD Foreword and Epilogue By Michael S. Hart Dedication to CAROL For becoming my smart... ...use’s introduction to Seeds of Change. Table of Contents Foreword By Michael S. Hart, eBooks inventor and Project Gutenberg co-founder Pre... ...foTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech... ...rance to create the Carolingian renaissance. By changing the structure of words and sentences, the monk from York makes writing forever easier to rea... ...r told‖ opens in John 1 with the simple phrase: ―In the beginning was the word—‖ This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Techno... ...g information on page 620 and technology on page 1,211. (On page 621, it lists information science immediately before information theory. There‘s no... ...classics, such as the Iliad and the Odyssey, troubadours filled memorized lists of spaces with visual details to bring to mind thousands of lines of ... ...form tables for computing costs of goods and payments of wages as well as lists converting weights and measures. By the seventeenth century, such bo...
...This book also begins with that wondrous first Information Technology and then moves on to tales about the wonders of the written word—great stories, many of them likely new to most readers. In them, you‘ll find all the backgrounds, foregrounds, premises, conclusions, and surprises that make up the best and most valuable books....
...esses him with language. Even before He takes Adam‘s rib to make Eve, He tells Adam to name every living creature. Adam immediately understands God‘s words and enunciates his own....
... Did Water Monkeys Swim before We Spoke?-From whence cometh language, the InfoTech that lets us dominate our planet? We listen. We easily hallucinate word boundaries. Spaces, such as you see in writing, are absent from speech. Yet somehow we find it easy to make sense of speech. -- 2. The Gift of Memory-For millennia, mnemonics reigned over commerce, news, entertainment, a...
... withdrawn on or before the Latest Date stamped below. The World Factbook is by the Directorate of II Central Intelligence Ag United States Governm' i... ...een added. Area: Total area is the sum of all land and water areas delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines. Land area is the aggregate... ...ries and/or coastlines. Land area is the aggregate of all surfaces delimited by international boundaries and/or coastlines, excluding inland water bod... ...munications: fair system of wire, radio-relay, and troposcatter routes; high frequency used extensively for military/ Cuban links; 2 Atlantic Ocean sa... ...efs Language: Portuguese and Crioulo, a blend of Portuguese and West African words Infant mortality rate: 60/1,000 (1983) Life expectancy: 61 Literacy... ...ways 1,220-2,439 m Telecommunications: interisland radio- relay system, high frequency radio to mainland Portugal and Guinea-Bissau; about 1,740 telep... ...ways 1,220-2,439 m Telecommunications: sparse system of radio-relay and high frequency radio communication stations for interisland and external commu... ...ocratic Group (RDNP), Leslie Manigat Voting strength: new voter registration lists being compiled Communists: United Party of Haitian Communists (PUCH...
... Mansfield Park JANE AUSTEN 1814 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2002 by Global Language Resources, Inc. All rights reserved. Contents I 1 I... ... pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her eleva tion; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward... .... But Miss Frances married, in the common phrase, to disoblige her family, and by fixing on a Lieutenant of Marines, without education, fortune, or con... ...ers? — and I am sure Mr. Norris is too just — but you know I am a woman of few words and professions. Do not let us be frightened from a good deed by ... ... ment — and Lady Bertram, without taking half so much trouble, or speaking one word where he spoke ten, by the mere aid of a good humoured smile, beca... ...elieved herself incapable of expressing; but her countenance and a few artless words fully conveyed all their gratitude and delight, and her cousin be... ...me and obligation — where he might have escaped that knowledge of himself, the frequency, at least, of that knowledge which it is impossible he should... ...ays be welcome; he had only to consult his own judgment and feelings as to the frequency of his visits, at present or in future. In all his niece’s fa... ...ole Street; the beautiful Mrs. R. whose name had not long been enrolled in the lists of hymen, and who had promised to become so brilliant a leader in...
... uncle, the lawyer, himself, allowed her to be at least three thousand pounds short of any equitable claim to it. She had two sisters to be benefited by her elevation; and such of their acquaintance as thought Miss Ward and Miss Frances quite as handsome as Miss Maria, did not scruple to predict their marrying with almost equal advantage. But there certainly are not so man...
... “To Build a Fire” And Other Stories By JACK LONDON 1899 1918 DjVu Editions Copyright c 2003 by Global La... ..., anyway?” And Male mute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. “By the time you ’ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and... ... with patriarchal smiles, while Protestant and Catholic vigorously applauded. “By gar!” ejaculated Louis Savoy, who seemed overcome by the romance of ... ...k and bade him turn in. “Call me at four, sharp. Don’t fail me,” were his last words, and a moment later he was breathing in the heaviness of exhauste... ...and we ’ll put my team on.” Mason deliberately withheld the whip till the last word had fallen, then out flashed the long lash, completely curling abou... ... a world of reproach in his eyes, and bending over the dog, cut the traces. No word was spoken. The teams were double spanned and the difficulty overco... ... they remembered the law of Sitka Charley, and the rifle. Joe fell with greater frequency as the daylight waned, and so hard The Wisdom of the Trail 5... ...ough! To sleep in the rooms of the Junta meant access to their secrets, to the lists of names, to the addresses of comrades down on Mexican 400 JACK ...
...omes to brandy and peppersauce and?--?Dump it in. Who?s making this punch, anyway?? And Malemute Kid smiled benignantly through the clouds of steam. ?By the time you?ve been in this country as long as I have, my son, and lived on rabbit tracks and salmon-belly, you?ll learn that Christmas comes only once per annum. And a Christmas without punch is sinking a hole to bedrock...