How can I explain the meaning of Diglossia?
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How do you explain it? With words I assume...\nDiglossia is when two related languages are used, and one is formal and classy and the other sounds uneducated. In our society Diglossia may occur if you consider Ebonics or engrish a separate language - but diglossia is more pronounced in other countries when the languages are a little more disparate. Extended Diglossia is when the languages are unrelated - kind of like in pre-Soviet Russia when all the rich people spoke French.
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Here's a link to an Internet slang dictionary: http://www.noslang.com/dictionary.php\n\nDon't feel bad about not being able to figure out "L.A.F.F." The periods would have thrown me off too.
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HI! It is by trying to understand it and having a dictionary or thesaurus at hand. The best thing is to understand it so you can say it in your own words.\n\nCheers!\n\nMitch
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Wow,  "dictioneris"?  "Democrasy"?  Stay in school.  Use link below.
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Diction is the clarity with which someone speaks or sings. Example - It is very helpful for a language teacher to have good diction.
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you can only try to figure out the meaning based on where and how it's used in the context of the sentence.  If you're still stumped, take a guess of its meaning and go with it.  Don't spend loads of time trying to figure it out.
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antidisestablishmentarianism\n\nPart of Speech:  noun\n\nDefinition:  originally, opposition to the disestablishment of the Church of England, now opposition to the belief that there should no longer be an official church in a country\n\n------------\n\n\nMain Entry:  floccinaucinihilipilification\n\nPart of Speech:  noun\n\nDefinition:  an act or instance of judging something to be worthless or trivial\nEtymology:  the parts of the word each mean `at nothing' or `with a small price'\n\n-------\n\nHere it is -- the long-awaited, much-promised list of the ten longest words in the English language. I am far from a linguist, so my only comments on these words will be from what I know personally. I know that this list excludes place names, chemical compounds, scientific names, proper names (some people actually change and lengthen their name for the sake of notoriety) and other oddities, but include a couple of quasi-medical terms. I also know that this list is only my list of words that I collected from various sites, and there will be some differences from other lists depending on how the creators of those other lists have restricted their sources. This is by no means a definitive list. It is, however, my best interpretation of the many similar but different lists that can be found by snooping around on the Internet. Please have fun with it. The shorter of the words (numbers 5 through 10) can be found in most good dictionaries.\n\n10. Pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism (30 letters)\n\n9. Hippopotomonstrosesquipedalian (30 letters)\n\n8. Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (34 letters)\n\n7. Pseudoantidisestablishmentarianism (34 letters -- And I always thought that "antidisestablishmentarianism" was the longest.)\n\n6. Praetertranssubstantiationalistically (37 letters)\n\n5. Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanokoniosis (45 letters -- This is the longest "natural" word found in Webster's and the Oxford English Dictionary.)\n\n4. Osseocarnisanguineoviscericartilagninonervomedullary (52 letters -- Coined by Thomas Love Peacock in his story from 1816 called "Headlong Hall".)\n\n3. Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic (52 letters -- Invented by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters at Bath, England.)\n\n2. Lopadotemachoselachogaleokranioleipsanodrimhypotrimmatosilph-ioparaomelitokatakechymenokichlepikossyphophattoperisteralek-tryonoptekephalliokigklopeleiolagoiosiraiobaphetraganopterygon (182 letters -- English transliteration of a 170-letter Greek word that appears in the Greek playwrite Aristophanes' comedy "The Ecclesiazusae".)\n\n1. Orniscopytheobibliopsychocrystarroscioaerogenethliometeoroau-strohieroanthropoichthyopyrosiderochpnomyoalectryoophiobotan-opegohydrorhabdocrithoaleuroalphitohalomolybdoclerobeloaxino-coscinodactyliogeolithopessopsephocatoptrotephraoneirochiroo-nychodactyloarithstichooxogeloscogastrogyrocerobletonooenosc-apulinaniac (311 letters [I hope!] and arbitrarily hyphenated at approximately 60 letters [as with word 2] -- Found in Ripley's "The Omnibus Believe It Or Not", published in 1931, this word was used by medieval scribes to refer to "a deluded human who practices divination or forecasting by means of phenomena, interpretation of acts or other manifestations related to the following animate or inanimate objects and appearances: birds, oracles, Bible, ghosts, crystal gazing, shadows, air appearances, birth stars, meteors, winds, sacrificial appearances, entrails of humans and fishes, fire, red-hot irons, altar smoke, mice, barley, salt, lead, dice, arrows, hatchet balance, sieve, ring suspension, random dots, precious stones, pebbles, pebble heaps, mirrors, ash writing, dreams, palmistry, nail rays, finger rings, numbers, book passages, name letterings, laughing manners, ventriloquism, circle walking, wax, susceptibility to hidden springs, wine and shoulder blades." No wonder it was shortened to only 311 le
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not really a definition, like a sterile dictionary literal translation, but the meaning, what does love mean... it's hard to explain...
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Check another dictionary.\n\nThis happened once with Webster's New International Dictionary, when they mistakenly defined "dord" as "density". Apparently someone had tried to define the letter D as density, so they wrote down "D or d - density". It got misread as "Dord - density", and someone added a pronunciation.\n\nLuckily it didn't appear in any other dictionary. Someone noticed it, and sent in the correction.
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Here is a word, an onomatopoeia to be exact, that will tell you why:\n\n"Baaaaaaaaaaaaaa"
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Linguistics
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copy a few passages from the languange that u want to learn\nevery day.any words that u don't know immediately see in the dictionary.learn the grammar as well as the pronounciation...just a tip,depends to the person hardwork...
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i like this one.  have fun!!\n\nhttp://italian.about.com/library/slang/bladultslangindexa.htm\n\njust in case that s not what u meant.  there are some other links below the Alphabet on that page
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Digame: Tell me\nDecir: To say
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Read sentence on left side downward, explanation on right\n\nMatilda    = Noun (person)\nanswered   = verb  (action or something felt or done)\nthe        = article ('the', 'a', 'an' are articles)  \nquestion   = noun (thing)\nquickly    = adverb (explains the verb "answered" - often ends in 'ly')\nand        = conjunction (joins two thoughts, "but" is also a conjunction)\nshe        = pronoun ("she" used in place of the noun "Matilda")\nwon        = verb (action someone did)\nthe        = (article)\ngolden     = adjective (describes the type of noun 'prize')\nprize      = noun (thing)\nwith       = preposition (shows relationship or location of Mathilda and team)\nthe        = (article)\nteam.      = noun (thing)\n\nHooray!    = Interjection (a shout, used with exclamation mark !)\n\nMatilda answered the question quickly and she won the golden prize with the team.  Hooray!
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Try to explain her what she can't understand
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make clear or understandable\n\nto explain , clarify , elaborate on , simplify .