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please: I can understand English quite well, but my brain goes fried when someone writes or speaks slang and excessively colloquial English language. ... French, British and American Literature � some Italian too. I must confess I know more about Brazilian and Portuguese literature� At the moment

I am currently working on my MA in English literature, specializing in 20th century American literature and culture.

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The Are You Ready to Date an English Major Test

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So, you see that hunky English major around campus or that cute girl with a BA in English at work and you want to ask him or her out on a date. But a... ...

The Lesbian Authors Test

The Lesbian Authors Test

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Greetings, and welcome to my Lesbian Authors Test, previously known as the Lesbian Literary Canon Test. In that one, however, I made the mistake of in... ...

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The High School American Lit Test

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Think you know your american literature? let's see... ...

The Extraordinarily Literate Part Deux Test

The Extraordinarily Literate Part Deux Test

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Salve! Welcome to my Test for the Extraordinarily Literate Part Deux. Prepare, in the name of good fun, to have yourself intellectually emasculated! ... ...

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The Ultimate, Uber-Cool Something Test

by ThaneofFife

Tired of taking all those personal compatibility tests written by really vain fellow Cupid users? Take mine instead! But it's not only that. It's so m... ...

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Spelling and Grammar

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by American school-marms. American school-teachers tend to tell AAVE-speakers that they're just using "bad" English. German school-teachers never tell speakers of Bavarian or Swabian German that they're just speaking crummy German.AAVE-speaking children are told that their English is ... AAVE literature

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Biggest Fag on OKC

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in parallel with the rise of popular literature and pervasive media. ... V: when Katherine is learning English, she is appalled at the "gros et impudique" English words "foot" and "gown," which her English teacher has mispronounced as ... The American grindcore band Anal Cunt, on being signed to a bigger

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rant sense when is ok to say nigger?;(

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word in the English language. ... that African Americans use the word themselves. The fact that nigger has been and continues to be used by African Americans themselves constitutes a logical fallacy on the part of African Americans. For African Americans to think ... banned from literature and speech.

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Marijuana Keep as is or Leagize It

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of medical literature, medical ... [132] American Academy of Family Physicians[132] American Public Health Association[132] American Psychiatric Association[132] American Nurses Association[132] British Medical Association[132] AIDS Action[132] American Academy of HIV ... org/english

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Does racism exist equally for everybody? Does it affect all communities equally?

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In nineteenth-century literature, there are ... preferred term in English in the late 1960s, and this continues to the present day. In the United States this has been displaced to some extent by African American, at least in politically correct usage; this resembles the term Afro-American that was in

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Post ITT and I will match my perception of your character with a song from my library

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You love literature, and as my High School English teacher asked us on the last day, don't forget literature, it's ... dude from American Beauty. Sorry to stick you with it if you don't like it, but this track popped into my head withing a few seconds of going through your profile. American Beauty