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Slanted Language is Stupid! ... The HyperTextBooks: eForum: Modern English Grammar — English 2126: Slanted Language is Stupid! ... Slanted Language is Stupid, Pointless, and Ridiculous. Oh wait is ridiculous a neutral word or a degrading word sorry if i offended anyone by saying ridiculous. Whoever invented slanted language is...
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Slanted diction does not apply just to people though. We express our feelings about any subject through our choice of vocabulary. In a discussion of film, words like cinema, film, and flick express the writer's underlying feelings about the significance of film as art. ... Examples of Slanted Language...
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As someone whose counsel was sought by the drafters of the Missouri Civil Rights Initiative, I was surprised and disappointed by the blatant editorializing in your news article on its launch (4/25, Local, “Race, gender politics at issue”). ... Consider the subhead: “Anti-affirmative-action ... And the first paragraph:
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Amazon.com: Tell It Slant: A Conversation on the Language of Jesus
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World Language Resources provides foreign language products for 728 languages. Software types include: language systems, dedicated word processors, language learning, translation and more. ... World Language Special Deals...
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Emotive significance, sometimes called "the slanting of language," is described with examples and exercises. ... As an exercise in separating the two kinds of significance, the following letter to "Dear Abby" will be translated from negatively slanted language into positively slanted language.
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