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Chinese Language Vietnamese People
931 wordsA man walks into Footaction to browse the wide selection of shoes and apparel that the store has to offer. As he comes across a pair of shoes that have some Chinese writing on it, he automatically turns around and asks Chris, an Asian sales associate at Footaction, what it says. Chris, who is not of Chinese decent, tells him that he does not know. The customer says, Well, arent you Chinese? Chris replies, No Im not, I am Vietnamese. Vietnamese, Chinese, they are all the same, the man remarks. Ch...
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Artificial Intelligence Electromagnetic Waves
1,956 wordsArtificial Intelligence: Cognitive Ability or Information Processing Computers have become an integral part of our everyday lives. We rely upon these machines to perform innumerable tasks that we often take for granted. Most people realize that computers are able to perform the multitude of functions as a consequence of the programming they receive. These programs give computers a set of instructions that governs their transition from one information processing state to another. Thus, computatio...
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Mother Tongue Virtually Impossible
1,713 wordsA multiethnic nation such as Singapore, the uses of languages are constantly changing and will never be fixed. In Singapore there are only 2. 5 million people on a small island in the South Pacific. In this multiethnic nation there are over 30 mother tongues and 20 with a thousand speakers or more. Singapore recognizes four official languages, Malay, Tamil, Mandarin and English (Borkhorst-Heng 287). At the time of independence these four languages were given official status, but the first three ...
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Politeness A Comparison Between Chinese And English
1,707 words1. Introduction 2 2. Politeness - a theoretical approach 3 3. the concept of limit 4 4. Request strategies 4 4. 1. Request strategies in Chinese 4 4. 2. Request strategies in English 5 5. Forms of address 6 5. 1. Forms of address in Chinese 6 5. 2. Forms of address in English 7 6. Chinese: Politeness across social groups 8 7. Conclusion 9 References 11 1. Introduction In many parts of this world, former existing borders are removed and people move closer together. It has to be admitted that most...
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Politeness A Comparison Between Chinese And English
1,776 words... hange's of political situations in the country of China. A very important year to mention is 1949 when the communist regime gained political power. Before this year, Lee-Wong (2000: 156 - 158) notes that the Chinese word xiao jie / "little miss" was a form representing elitism, wealth and high status. After the year of the Revolution, when class distinctions were abolished, this form was dropped. Still, xiao jie was being brought back into existence by means of modernization movements. Today...
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