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A Rich Haul for Very Little Effort



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By : li bing    19 or more times read
Submitted 2010-09-04 04:59:08
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The next few hits were about world languages and American compared with British English. And then SU came up with Pompous Ass Words. This is a collection of 'words everyone should know about and never use'— uncommonly understood words that are used in place of commonly understood ones. The site was a sobering find for me, when I realized that I used almost every word in the list. Pretentious academics read and beware!

SU is a delightful way of finding sites that would otherwise elude you. The problem is that its categories are very broad: linguistics, for example, is not divided into any subcategories, and as a result you can find yourself looking through dozens of sites which, while often fascinating, are not particularly relevant. Fortunately, there is a way around this: the S U toolbar also cheap Cartier jewelry(http://www.discountcartier.com) includes a search mechanism which allows you to do a simple word-matching search within each category.

To check this out, I refined my search to locate only 'linguistics' pages which included the word 'CLIL'. I stumbled through not only the expected pages from the British Council and the EU, but also a useful Catalan site with a superb collection of links to CLIL articles, resources, and ready-made classroom materials. You can also get SU to confine its searches to news articles, or photos, or—and perhaps most usefully—videos. Selecting this option with my linguistics category still selected came up with Victor Borge's wonderful Phonetic Pronunciation, as well as several entertaining advertisements for language schools and a Stephen Pinker video on language and thought—a rich haul for very little effort.



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