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Killer Whale - MSN Encarta Killer Whale or Orca, aquatic mammal that is the largest member of the dolphin family. The flippers of killer whales are broad and paddle-shaped, and the flukes (horizontal lobes on the tail) sometimes curl downward, especially in adults. Killer whales are among the fastest animals in the sea, reaching swimming speeds of up to 50 km/h (30 mph) for short periods of time. encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_761579745/Killer_Whale.html   (1206 words)

Killer Whale - MSN Encarta Killer whales are mainly fl or deep brown, with striking white patches from lower jaw to belly, above the eye, and a fainter grey-white saddle patch just under and behind the dorsal fin. All killer whales have a large prominent dorsal fin midback, but that of the adult male continues to grow, until it is a triangular “sail” up to 1.8 m (5.9 ft) tall. However, killer whale groups that have been studied tend to be remarkably stable, with males and females staying in their natal groups (or pods) for life. uk.encarta.msn.com /encyclopedia_781531534/Killer_Whale.html   (561 words)

Killer language - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Killer language is a dominant language learned subtractively (at the cost of the mother tongues) rather than additively (in addition to mother tongues). Being a killer language is not an intrinsic characteristic of a language. Spoken languages can function as killer languages in relation to sign languages, either through oralism (where deaf students are taught through speech and sign languages are excluded) or through the use of manually coded languages in deaf education. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Killer_language   (422 words)

Language death - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The most common process leading to language death is one in which a community of speakers of one language becomes bilingual in another language, and gradually shifts allegiance to the second language until they cease to use their original (or heritage) language. Language attrition is the loss of a language or a portion of that language by either a speech community or an individual. Language policies may be used to protect languages from extinction, and terms such as “linguistic human rights” have welcomed an increasing awareness of the socio-strategic dichotomy of natural rights and linguistic freedom. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Language_death   (1510 words)

Online edition of Daily News - Features   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Some scholars argue that many languages of course there are many languages 'spoken by small groups of people who have little political and cultural power within the sovereign states in which they live' are on the verge of collapse or death due to the influence of factors including that of the English language. Language shift usually occurs from a small, low-status vernacular to one of the languages higher in the hierarchy, usually one with a lager number of speakers and wider currency in the region". If English has been a threat to other languages in its own country, one cannot be all much too complacent about the fate of many other languages or dialects that now interact with English in their own countries. www.dailynews.lk /2004/02/16/fea04.html   (1188 words)

Whole Earth: English: The Killer Language? Or a Passing Phase? Whether we consider English a "killer language" or not, whether we regard its spread as benign globalization or linguistic imperialism, the expansive reach of English is undeniable and, for the time being, unstoppable. For all the enthusiasm and vitriol generated by grand-scale globalization, often heavily associated with the spread of English, it is the growth in regional interactions—trade, travel, the spread of religion, inter-ethnic marriages—that touches the widest array of local populations. The language characteristically used with intimate family and friends, the language generally used with coworkers or neighbors, and the language used with one's bosses or government, need not be one and the same. www.wholeearthmag.com /ArticleBin/328.html   (811 words)

World’s Languages Are Fast Disappearing - Global Policy Forum - Globalization Hundreds of languages have gone the way of the do-do bird, and thousands more are in the precarious position of the spotted owl. Language embodies the spectrum of human vision, and its varieties provide unparalleled insights into the diversity of human experience and perception, while the consistencies expose the unchanging kernel across cultures. In these cultural oases, young children are steeped in the language, spoken by a paid staff of elderly native speakers and younger teachers. www.globalpolicy.org /globaliz/cultural/2002/0425fast.htm   (939 words)

ASA 151st Meeting Lay Language Papers - Killer Whales and Herring: Using Sound to Get a Meal Icelandic killer whales, as we have discovered, employ an additional strategy, apparently not shared by their Norwegian cousins, that may give them an extra advantage in capturing their prey. Killer whales of the Northeast Atlantic feed primarily on herring. The killer whale tone is very intense (170 to 190 dB at a distance of 1 m and a reference pressure of 1 microPascal) and could force the school of herring to form a tighter ball making the tail slap more effective by stunning more fish than otherwise possible www.acoustics.org /press/151st/Miller.html   (810 words)

Joshua A. Fishman - The new linguistic order English has become the leading international language, in economic and political spheres, and is becoming the language of high society and of the young. Whether we consider English a "killer language" or not, whether we regard its spread as benign globalization or linguistic imperialism, its expansive reach is undeniable and, for the time being, unstoppable. Language conflict occurs when there is competition between two languages for exclusive use in the same power-related function —for example, government or schooling. www.uoc.edu /humfil/articles/eng/fishman/fishman.html   (3573 words)

Language Loss Focusing on one FSM language, which may be your L1, state why this language is in danger of eventually “dying out” or degrading into a “pidgin”. Reversing language shift efforts on behalf of the inter-generational mother-tongue transmission is community building, that is what is essentially required, in and through the beloved language. Language shift is determined primarily by internal changes within language communities themselves. www.comfsm.fm /~jgourlay/EN120bLangLoss.htm   (1099 words)

International Education Matters -- Article -- " Language Requirements: Problem or Opportunity?" Since language teaching in the United States is generally dismal, requiring reasonable proficiency in a language as a condition of participation in study abroad programs would cause most such programs to fail in a relatively short time. The notion was flatly rejected on the basis of the official policy that the languages of the IOC were French and English, and on the unofficial assumption that all the visitors would be able to communicate in English. Language learning remains a top priority, and to this end, member states are encouraged to promote trilingualism; they are advised to make language qualifications desirable for entry into, and compulsory for exit from, higher education; and they are requested to give particular attention to the learning of minority languages" (1994: 94). www.udel.edu /iepmedia/article_kaplan.html   (4453 words)

The Killer Bunny language Although killer bunny is mostly a sign language, it also contains a few spoken words used for emphasis. Two killer bunnies can now communicate even when they can't see each other, just as long as they don't use nouns other than food. It is important to realise the significance of the visual part of the language. www.angelfire.com /nt/killerbunny/Language.html   (269 words)

Language Workbenches: The Killer-App for Domain Specific Languages? Many proponents of language oriented programming have a vision of the future where all the domain logic of a system is done by users. Language workbenches clearly affect that trade-off with a number of new things to consider. Once you define a language in a language workbench you are tied to that language workbench. www.martinfowler.com /articles/languageWorkbench.html   (10282 words)

Correlation   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) beside the profound cloud the killer is language for. a terrain, and a hue, the killer, and hewn. on the street the killer is knots of after dusk. www.dcpoetry.com /anthology/214   (81 words)

Killer 7 SINdicate :Killer 7 Fansite - 7 SINS 7 KILLERS The Killer 7 confession, of what Killer 7 was originally intended to be. Killer 7 DVD that came with Japanese preorders of Killer 7. There is also a limited edition killer 7 lithograph offer with the release of the first issue. www.killer7.3dactionplanet.gamespy.com /merc.htm   (400 words)

The Hindu : Karnataka / Mysore News : Expert calls for a policy to protect Indian languages This was the opinion of English language experts at a seminar on "English language teaching" organised at the Yuvaraja's College here on Wednesday. In this context, educationists and teachers of English have to sensitively balance the role of English and regional languages, he said. The traditional and outdated approach by some of the university professors that only literature should be taught and not language is antediluvian in nature. www.hindu.com /2006/03/23/stories/2006032311830300.htm   (524 words)

Asian EFL Journal: English Language Teaching and Research Articles Her research interests are the relationships between language, culture and identity; postcolonial Englishes; Critical Discourse Analysis; and English teacher education. The English Afro-Americans speak is perceived by educators as "a distinct language spoken by the descendants of slaves" (Woo and Curtius, 1996, cited in McArthur, 1998, p.198). Foreign language education policy in Vietnam: the emergence of English and its impact on higher education. www.asian-efl-journal.com /September_05_plh.php   (5486 words)

Selected Resources on Indigenous Language Revitalization Language and Literacy Teaching for Indigenous Education: A Bilingual Approach (Multilingual Matters, 2002) advocate the inclusion of indigenous languages in classrooms. Committee on Endangered Languages and their Preservation, Linguistic Society of America (LSA): Membership is by appointment, but all LSA members are invited to get involved in the committee's activities. Native Americans are aware that they are losing their languages and cultures, but it is useless for them to continuously lament these losses, to continuously blame the schools, the government, the churches, and the mass media for these losses. jan.ucc.nau.edu /~jar/SIL_Appendix.html   (5369 words)

From Lingua Franca to Global English According to the British Council, speakers of English as a second language probably outnumber those who speak it as a first language, and around 750 million people are believed to speak English as a foreign language. Languages of the Indian subcontinent provided words such as pundit, shampoo, pajamas, and juggernaut. English is the official language of the European Central Bank even though the bank is in Frankfurt, Germany, and no predominantly English-speaking country is a member of the European Monetary Union. www.globalenvision.org /library/8/655   (1197 words)

Diagnosing Java code: Killer combo -- Mixins, Jam, and unit testing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Introducing so much complexity into a language tends to increase the occurrences of bugs, so the Java language has taken the approach of sticking to single inheritance (except for interface inheritance, where the semantics are much more straightforward). To translate to the Java language, Jam mixin types are represented as interfaces, implemented by the instantiations (all of which are known statically). As this article and the previous one demonstrated, the Java language as it exists today is not the last word in language design, especially when we employ the style of test-first programming. www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/j-diag1203   (2721 words)

Noesis: Vlogs Archives The loss of a language, cannot simply be reacquired, languages are thousands of years in the making carrying the weight of historical and cultural nusances. Sign language has not traditionally been preserved, and to had the archiving of sign language vlogs to a commercial company is a dangerous thing. BSL is a language in so much as others are, and if someone wishes to express themselves in that language, then that is their choice. www.alisonbryan.com /thoughts/vlogs   (1489 words)

Sidney Museum - Killer Whale Language   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Killer whales produce two types of vocalizations, echolocation, and communication sounds. These dialects appear to develop when pods are in social isolation. When pods share hunting ranges there is commonality between some of the calls, and these can be identified as clans, or "language" groups. www.sidneymuseum.ca /Kw_lang1.htm   (137 words)

Microsoft describes its Java killer | The Register It's a pretty bare boned language description, and doesn't describe a security model, or come with a library of ready-to-roll classes. Microsoft is trying to throw this as a language pitch, not a platform pitch, and won't let anything get in the way of the message. The open source language Python has not only proven itself macho enough in heavy duty production environment, it's simple enough to be taught as a first language to kids. www.theregister.co.uk /2000/06/27/microsoft_describes_its_java_killer   (908 words)

Emacs a top-notch Java IDE? You bet!   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Using this extension language, you can easily create new features for Emacs without having to mess with the source code (which is written in C). For just about any programming language in popular use, Emacs has a major mode, which augments the regular editing features with new features specific to that language. The syntax of the Java language is similar to the syntax of C and C++, so Java support is integrated into the standard CC Mode that comes bundled with the more recent versions of Emacs. www-106.ibm.com /developerworks/library/j-emacs/?n-j-5241   (2210 words)

Hausa language — Infoplease.com Hausa language, member of the Chadic group of languages belonging to the Afroasiatic family of languages. Dead mothers and injured wives: the social contest of maternal morbidity and mortality among the Hausa of Northern Nigeria. The Nigerian language policy in constitutional and administrative perspective: theory and practice. www.infoplease.com /ce6/society/A0822969.html   (134 words)

The Mediadrome - History - American Gothic: H.H. Holmes But at the same time, in another great city on the other side of the Atlantic, an equally cunning killer was claiming his victims. Known as "The Handsome Bandit", Hedgepeth, whose sensational trial made national news, was a ruthless train robber and cold-blooded killer. Unable to accurately describe him at the time, newspapers labeled him an archfiend and a devil, but the deadly Dr. Holmes can only be depicted as a killer-a serial killer. www.themediadrome.com /content/articles/history_articles/holmes.htm   (2404 words)

Cinematical Alright, so I haven't kept up my end of the bargain in keeping up with my B-flick reviews, but hopefully my preview of tonight's premiere episode of Showtime's Masters of Horror will whet the appetite for horror fans out there or maybe just those looking for their Halloween fright fix. I remember the trailer not being anything special and thinking, "how could a movie about a disease be that scary?" For the most part I was right, and I want to know what Cabin Fever those folks on the forums saw because this can't be it. Welcome to the Killer Blog from Cyberspace, a new feature here at Cinematical where we will briefly discuss and review some of our favorite (and not-so favorite) B-movie horror. www.cinematical.com /category/killer-blog-from-cyberspace   (1033 words)

Wander, Think, Repeat » Blog Archive » Okay, That’s Three Killer Apps for Python Where “killer app” usually means “compelling reason for programmers to adopt it” (the word “app” having changed meaning in a big way sometime in the past 10 years). And Python is already a killer language; there’s no need to begrudge the Ruby people their success. This entry was posted on Wednesday, January 4th, 2006 at 1:32 pm and is filed under Mobile Technology, Industry Trends, New Technology, Software Development. www.wgrosso.com /weblog/?p=101   (246 words)

seals - - science news articles online technology magazine articles seals   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-11) Seals are Guided by Voices Seals seem to be smart enough to master a foreign language when they need to. The seals panicked when they heard unknown orcas or known seal eaters but stayed calm when confronted with the familiar calls of killer whales they knew to eat only fish. Deecke suggests that seals' ability to recognize whale voices might explain the long-standing puzzle of why Pacific killer whales fall into two such distinct populations, fish eaters and seal eaters. www.discover.com /issues/apr-03/rd/breakseals   (308 words)

Raiméis » Language Links David calls English “the worst killer language” due to the way it can take over from a persons natural language in areas such as business: “there are already researchers, civil servants, who know certain things much better in English than in their own languages. Thanks to the new Spanish Government, Europe’s minoritised languages will be on the agenda for the last leg of talks on the Draft Constituition. Plaid Cymru call for Welsh to have official EU recognition, and Welsh language groups say small and lesser used languages must co-operate. www.ssi-developer.net /rant/?p=149   (203 words)

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