NOT SORRY FOR HELPING MAKE ENGLISH AFRICA’S LINGUA FRANCA
Readers respond to a piece that claimed the English language was taking over the world, and to a letter about American English that it prompted.
American English differs from (standard) British English in allowing such constructions as “he grabbed the bag off of me”, “I left it outside of the house” (i.e. with two prepositions). However, these usages are nothing at all to do with “linguistic precision”. They are simply regional variants, both equally acceptable/grammatical. I recall using the “off of” expression myself as a boy in Yorkshire. Non-standard yes, but nothing to do with grammaticality as such. And in what sense is “different to” ungrammatical/ inaccurate? It is simply a reflection of the writer’s personal taste/style. In confusing the informal with the ungrammatical in such an authoritarian manner, it is the writer who is guilty of “imprecision”, not American English.
Philip J Jaggar. Emeritus professor of West African linguistics, Soas University of London. Available in: https://www.theguardian.com/education/2018/aug/01/im-not-sorry-forhelping-make-english-africas-lingua-franca. Access in: 19 sept. 2019 (Adapted).
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SCIENTISTS FIGURED OUT A WAY TO GROW MEAT IN A LAB WITHOUT RELYING ON ANY PRODUCTS FROM SLAUGHTERED ANIMALS.
A handful of startups are racing to create real pieces of meat out of animal cells in a lab.
But for the most part, the food that's used to coax those cells to proliferate is an animal product called fetal bovine serum, which comes from slaughtered cows. That means the lab-grown meat isn't yet cruelty-free.
However, the Dutch startup Meatable claims to have solved that problem by using only stem cells from animals' umbilical cords "This way, we don't harm the animals at all, and it's material that would otherwise get thrown away," Krijn De Nood, Meatable's CEO, told Business Insider in September.
The company aims to begin serving its slaughterfree burgers and sausages to restaurants in roughly four years.
Available in: https://amp.businessinsider.com/biggest-scientific-discoveriesof-2018-2018-12. Access in: 17 aug. 2019
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KNOCKIN' ON HEAVEN'S DOOR
Bob Dylan
Mama, take this badge off of me
I can’t use it anymore.
It’s gettin’ dark, too dark for me to see
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Mama, put my guns in the ground
I can’t shoot them anymore.
That long black cloud is comin’ down
I feel like I’m knockin’ on heaven’s door.
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Knock, knock, knockin’ on heaven’s door
Available in: https://www.wordsinthebucket.com/knockin-on-heavens-door-bob-dylan . Access in: 16 aug. 2019.
Originalmente composta em 1973 por Bob Dylan, a música Knocking on heaven’s door tornou-se uma das mais populares do artista.
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50 YEARS AFTER THE BEATLES’ FAMOUS ABBEY ROAD ALBUM COVER, FAB FOUR
The Beatles — John Lennon, Paul McCartney, Ringo Star and George Harrison — became rock legends and sold millions upon millions of albums worldwide because of their songs.
However, the album Abbey Road is not just famous for (1) its music, but also for its album cover. Created in an era when music was listened to on vinyl records, the cover was all important. And the cover of The Beatles’ Abbey Road album became iconic because of its simplicity. (2) It featured the four members of the band walking across a pedestrian crossing in suburban London just near the Abbey Road studios where (3) they recorded the songs. Most of the world knows this photograph, it is instantly recognisable.
Available in: https://bit.ly/2P9Sp3h. Access in: 31 aug. 2019 (Adapted).
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