Explanation:
om Belt, a native of Oklahoma, didn’t encounter the English language until he began kindergarten. In his home, conversations took place in Cherokee.
Belt grew up riding horses, and after college bounced around the country doing the rodeo circuit. Eventually, he wound up in North Carolina in pursuit of a woman he met at school 20 years earlier. “All those years ago, she said the thing that attracted her to me was that I was the youngest Cherokee she’d ever met who could speak Cherokee,” he says. “I bought a roundtrip ticket to visit her, but I never used the other end of the ticket.”
The couple married. Yet his wife – also Cherokee – did not speak the language. He soon realised that he was a minority among his own people. At that time, just 400 or so Cherokee speakers were left in the Eastern Band, the tribe located in the Cherokee's historic homeland and the one that his wife belongs to. Children were no longer learning the language either. “I began to realise the urgency of the situation,” Belt says. So he decided to do something about it.
Cherokee is far from the only minority language threatened with demise. Over the past century alone, around 400 languages – about one every three months – have gone extinct, and most linguists estimate that 50% of the world’s remaining 6,500 languages will be gone by the end of this century (some put that figure as high as 90%, however). Today, the top ten languages in the world claim around half of the world’s population. Can language diversity be preserved, or are we on a path to becoming a monolingual species?
Answer:
The effect the pun has on this scene is:
A. It makes the scene more humorous.
Explanation:
"The Importance of Being Earnest" is a play by Oscar Wilde in which the characters pretend to be someone else to escape social obligations they consider heavy or boring.
<u>In this particular excerpt, we have a typical example of the type of humor Wilde would develop in his stories. While Jack is speaking of losing his parents in the sense of losing them to death, Lady Bracknell is talking of losing as one would lose a wallet in the street. The seriousness of Jack's words is erased by the pun, which most likely surprises as well as entertains the audience.</u>
From your small office you must watch the security cameras carefully. You have a very limited amount of electricity that you're allowed to use per night . That means when you run out of power for the night- no more security doors and no more lights. If something isn't right- namely if Freddybear or his friends aren't in their proper places, you must find them on the monitors and protect yourself if needed.
The answer is: b. dead members of the community in their graves.
In the excerpt from "Elegy Written in a Country Churchyard," the author Thomas Gray makes reference to the dead people from the village who are buried in their graves in the churchyard. By the word <em>rude </em>he suggests the tombs belong to simple villagers -not impolite or disrespectful people- who lived in the hamlet, which is a small settlement.
Answer:The answer is 1 & 4
Explanation:
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