It features essays on comics, politics, language, and science, as well as a detailed description of Rosenfelder's conworld, Almea.

By analogy with the word " conlang ", the term conworld is used to describe these fictional worlds, inhabited by fictional constructed cultures.

By analogy with the word " conlang ", the term conworld is used to describe these worlds, inhabited by fictional constructed cultures.

English is a West Germanic language with substantial influences and additional vocabulary from Latin, Greek, and French, among others.

However, Italian scholars in those years pinpointed that the Slovene dialects of the " Slavia Italiana ", as the region was referred, and were mutually unintelligible with standard Slovene, due to a divergent historical development and a significant number of Italian and Friulian influences on the local vocabulary.

Malaysian English is gradually forming its own vocabulary, these words come from a variety of influences.

The vocabulary is almost entirely of Latin origin influences of ancient Greek.

Despite the heavy Sardinian influences ( especially in the vocabulary and phonetics ), it still keeps its Tuscan roots, which closely relate it to Gallurese.

Historical constraints, core vocabulary and grammatical features that Papiamento shares with Cape Verdean Creole suggest that the basic ingredients are Portuguese, and that other influences occurred at a later time ( 17th and 18th century, respectively ).

Apart from accent and intonation, differences are mainly vocabulary used for local fauna, flora and so on, retentions from local indigenous languages or other substrata languages ( e. g. Malay ), and minor differences in pronunciation due to substrata influences.

Ezra Stiles in the late 1700s and a 202-word Unquachog vocabulary recorded by Thomas Jefferson in 1791, though the Jefferson vocabulary also shows clear signs of dialect mixture and " external influences.

* English ( Oïl influences on vocabulary, transmitted via the Anglo-Norman language spoken by the upper classes in England in the centuries following the Norman Conquest )

Literary Maltese, unlike Standard Maltese, features a preponderance of Semitic vocabulary and grammatical patterns, however this traditional separation between Semitic and Romance influences in Maltese literature ( especially Maltese poetry and Catholic liturgy on the island ) is changing.

In addition, the anomalous character of Avot is heightened by the biblical influences on its linguistic expressions, grammatical forms, and vocabulary.

They are totally untouched by Islamic influence and worship animistic gods, incorporating some Hindu and Buddhist influences in their rituals and religious vocabulary.

Shrines weren't of course completely immune to change, and in fact show various influences, particularly that of Buddhism, a cultural import which provided much of Shinto architecture's vocabulary.

Monegasque, along with all Ligurian languages, is derived directly from the northern Italy languages of the Middle Ages along with some influences in vocabulary, grammar and syntax from French and related Gallo-Romance languages.

Around Buzet in north-central Istria, the Kajkavian version of Croatian was spoken, while in all other areas Čakavian was predominant, frequently with strong Kajkavian and Venetian influences in the vocabulary.

Its Low German / Low Saxon influences are not restricted to its phonology but involve morphological and syntactic structures ( sentence construction ) and its lexicon ( vocabulary ) as well.

However, the language in a modern context has deteriorated from the Indic based vocabulary, morphology, and influences from Greek and other Balkan languages of seventeenth century to a Para-Romani dialect typical of modern Anglo-Romani with sentence endings influenced by English, while Welsh Romani retains the original grammatical system.

The Nazi movement, from nearly the start, denounced the Bauhaus for its " degenerate art ", and the Nazi regime was determined to crack down on what it saw as the foreign, probably Jewish influences of " cosmopolitan modernism.

From these early influences individualist anarchism in different countries attracted a small but diverse following of bohemian artists and intellectuals, free love and birth control advocates ( see Anarchism and issues related to love and sex ), individualist naturists nudists ( see anarcho-naturism ), freethought and anti-clearical activists as well as young anarchist outlaws in what came to be known as illegalism and individual reclamation ( see European individualist anarchism and individualist anarchism in France ).

He cites his modern influences as Harry Enfield ( who he says without meeting he would not have been doing what he does now ), and the approach of Reeves and Mortimer who he thinks are " far and away the best comedians that we have had in this country for a long while.

Here Steiner suggests that there is an inconsistency between Kant's philosophy, which posits that knowledge is representation and that the essential verity of the world is inaccessible to human consciousness, and modern science, which assumes that all influences can be found in what Steiner termed the “ sinnlichen und geistlichen ” ( sensory and mental / spiritual ) world to which we have access.

For example, Eysenck ( 1973 ) reports that personality influences whether we focus on what might go wrong or on potential benefits ; Nicholson et al.

The world also became more culturally homogenized than ever with developments in transportation and communications technology, popular music and other influences of Western culture, international corporations, and what was arguably a true global economy by the end of the century.

Because scientific experiments try to eliminate extraneous influences, he believes they are atypical of what goes on in nature.

List exemplifies the potential dilemma that can result: " if one were interested in exploring whether, and to what extent, race or gender influences the prices that buyers pay for used cars, it would be difficult to measure accurately the degree of discrimination among used car dealers who know that they are taking part in an experiment.

Hence is language essential to the imposition, establishment, and functioning of the cultural hegemony that influences what and how people think about the status quo of their society.

Its strategy was two-pronged: armed struggle against what were perceived as Western imperialism and its agents ; and an internal purifying process to free Islamic territory and Muslim minds of non-Islamic cultural, intellectual and spiritual influences, by providing justice, services, resources to the mustazafin ( weak ) masses of the Muslim world.

The new influences from Ritter resulted in what is widely regarded as Strauss's first piece to show his mature personality, the tone poem Don Juan ( 1888 ), which displays a new kind of virtuosity in its bravura orchestral manner.

Because these environmental influences operate slowly on human biology, it was important to trace the migrations of groups to see what environmental conditions they had evolved under.

For example, in what Foley called a " pivotal " contribution, Larry Benson introduced the concept of " written-formulaic " to describe the status of some Anglo-Saxon poetry which, while demonstrably written, contains evidence of oral influences, including heavy reliance on formulas and themes A number of individual scholars in many areas continue to have misgivings about the applicability of the theory or the aptness of the South Slavic comparison, and particularly what they regard as its implications for the creativity which may legitimately be attributed to the individual artist.

An example is " The Mad Trist " in Edgar Allan Poe's The Fall of the House of Usher, where through somewhat mystical means the narrator's reading of the story-within-a-story influences the reality of the story he has been telling, so that what happens in " the Mad Trist " begins happening in " The Fall of the House of Usher ".

He cites Béla Bartók, Igor Stravinsky, Pérotin, Léonin, Claude Debussy and Organum musical style as important influences, but what made the biggest impact on his compositions was the serialism of Arnold Schoenberg and Anton Webern.

Captured pieces are passed on and thus what happens on one board influences what happens on the other board.

The pair's fusion of bossa nova, samba and other native Brazilian folk influences, melded with politically and socially aware lyrics, kickstarted what came to be known as Tropicalia.

The two influences and roots for rumba in particular being from the “ Yulea ” and “ Makuta ” styles of dancing There are numerous other African influences in the rumba that helped shape it into what it is today but those are the main influences that are noticeable today in the styles of dance.

The mounts of the hand provide a tangible record of how we deal with each of these planetary influences, and what our challenges are.

Typically such citations establish the general framework of influences and the mindset of research, and especially as " part of what science " it is, and to help determine who conducts the peer review.

In contrast to the Northern Italian language, southern Italian dialects and languages were largely untouched by the Franco-Occitan influences introduced to Italy, mainly by bards from France, during the Middle Ages but, after the Norman conquest of southern Italy, Sicily became the first Italian land to adopt Occitan lyric moods ( and words ) in poetry.

* Zoroastrianism holds that active participation in life through good thoughts, good words and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaotic influences at bay.

Although Miller claims he invented the words " epismetology " ( metathesis of epistemology ) and " pompatus ", all of his song-writing demonstrates strong rhythm and blues influences, and a 1954 song called " The Letter " by the Medallions had the lines:

All cultures are subject to external influences, but cultural xenophobia is often narrowly directed, for instance, at foreign loan words in a national language.

It also contains influences from Cockney rhyming slang and the King James Bible, the German language, some words of unclear origin, and some that Burgess invented.

Other Portuguese influences include a large number of Indonesian words derived from Portuguese which alongside Malay was the lingua franca up until the early 19th century.

The language also contains some Portuguese influence, such as its words for butter ( mántéka ), table ( mésa ), shoes ( sapátu ), and some English and Dutch influences ; for instance, the word for milk ( míliki ), book ( búku ), or motor-car ( mótuka ).

These influences led him to write a number of labor oriented poems, one of which became the words for the oft-sung union anthem, " Solidarity Forever ".

In other words, our lifestyle controls our use of technology, while technology influences our lifestyles.

His core influences, however, are clearly rooted in jazz, and in his own words: " My music is jazz.

To be practical, however, vortex methods require means for rapidly computing velocities from the vortex elements – in other words they require the solution to a particular form of the N-body problem ( in which the motion of N objects is tied to their mutual influences ).

Here is a list of the most common foreign language influences in English, where other languages have influenced or contributed words to English.

But, if the rotatory motion of any part of the atmosphere is greater than that of the surface of the earth, or, in other words, if any part of the atmosphere has a relative eastern motion with regard to the earth's surface, this force is increased, and if it has a relative western motion, it is diminished, and this difference gives rise to a disturbing force which prevents the atmosphere being in a state of equilibrium, with a figure conforming to that of the earth's surface, but causes an accumulation of the atmosphere at certain latitudes and a depression at others, and the consequent difference in the pressure of the atmosphere at these latitudes very materially influences its motions.

North Dakhini is spoken with an added influence of pure Urdu and while South Dakhini draws slightly more influences from Marathi, Kannada and Tamil, it has quite a number of original words not to be found in Urdu or Northern Dakhini, with even a slightly varied grammar and sentence structuring.

It does appear that Wu dialects have had non-Sinitic influences, and many contain words cognate with those of other languages in various strata.

As the language is in a diglossic situation with standard Thai, dialects of the Lao language in Thailand share several features that set them apart from standard Lao: the adoption of Thai neologisms, code-switching between Thai and Lao, and influences on grammar and tone distribution which make certain standard Lao words and manners of speaking seem archaic or obsolete.

Gallaecian and Lusitanian influences were absorbed into the local Vulgar Latin dialect, and this can be detected in some Galician-Portuguese words as well as in place-names of Celtic and Iberian origin ( e. g. Bolso ).

This experience was an apprehension of, in his own words, " a perfectly insane and abject terror, without ostensible cause, and only to be accounted for, to my perplexed imagination, by some damned shape squatting invisible to me within the precincts of the room, and raying out from his fetid personality influences fatal to life.

This has led some linguists to believe that the carriers of Olmec culture spoke a Mixe – Zoquean language and that words spread from their language into others because of their potential cultural dominance in the Preclassic period, though the relationship between the Olmec and other Preclassic groups is still debated ( see Olmec influences on Mesoamerican cultures ).

* Owing to heavy use of biblical terms, there was a large influx of new words borrowed from Greek and Hebrew, and even some grammatical influences.

On this basis, Fleming ( 1991 ) has classified Shabo as Nilo-Saharan and, within Nilo-Saharan, as nearest to Koman, while Ehret ( 1995 ) has argued that neither Nilo-Saharan nor Afro-Asiatic present any convincing similarities, seeing the Koman words as early loans and saying that " once the evidence of these influences is identified and separated out, there is little else to suggest that Shabo might belong to the Nilo-Saharan family.

Pronunciations and words are also predominantly British, although influences from Canadian and Australian English do exist as a result of large numbers of returnees.

The percentage of Russian words and phonetic influences tends to gradually increase in the east and south and around big Russian-speaking cities.