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More words when speaking than when writing Experts on writing say. "Get rid of as many words as possible." Each word must do something important. If it doesn't, get rid of it. Well, this doesn't work for speaking. It takes more words to introduce, express, and adequately elaborate an idea in speech than it takes in writing. Why is this so? While the reader can reread, the listener cannot rehear...

Regional Style Assumed by Zoning Codes In the US regional styles of speech have always been associated with regional styles of building: the Midwestern farmhouse, the Southern plantation mansion, and the Cape Cod cottage all have their equivalent in spoken dialect. These buildings may be old and genuine, or they may be recent reproductions, the equivalent of an assumed rather than a native accen..

Combative Sports Mirror Human Aggressiveness There has been a general belief that sport is a way of reducing violence. Anthropologist Richard Sipes tests this notion in a classic study of the relationship between sport and violence. Focusing on what he calls “combative sports,” those sports including actual body contact between opponents or simulated warfare, he hypothesizes that if sport is an ..

Cars vs Bicycles Cars create a tremendous amount of pollution, and cause many of the environmental issues we face today. Biking, however, provides an extremely eco-friendly way to travel. Bicycles consume no gas and release no exhaust, and every mile you travel by bike prevents about one pound of CO2 from entering the atmosphere. In addition, the energy and materials spent to produce one automob..