• Language Made Plain by Anthony Burgess is a brief overview of the field of linguistics. Without dealing specifically with any one language, it provides...
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  • Plain language is writing designed to ensure the reader understands as quickly, easily, and completely as possible. Plain language strives to be easy to...
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  • Plain English (layman's terms) is a mode of writing or speaking the English language intended to be easy to understand regardless of one's familiarity...
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    Plains Indian Sign Language (PISL), also known as Hand Talk or Plains Sign Language, is an endangered language common to various Plains Nations across...
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    Algonquian language, Cree, which is the most populous Canadian indigenous language. Plains Cree is considered a dialect of the Cree-Montagnais language or a...
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  • The Lakes Plain languages are a family of Papuan languages, spoken in the Lakes Plain of Indonesian New Guinea. They are notable for being heavily tonal...
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  • Nadsat (category Language articles with IETF language tag)
    List of nadsat words List of fictional languages Anthony Burgess, Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air. Eric Partridge, et al., The New Partridge...
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    while the labiovelars merged with the 'plain velars'. In the centum languages, the palatovelars merged with the plain velars, while the labiovelars remained...
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    Plain Language Act 2022 (2022 No 54) is an Act of Parliament in New Zealand. The Act specifies the requirement of government officials to use plain,...
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    centum languages, the palatovelars, which included the initial consonant of the "hundred" root, merged with the plain velars. In satem languages, they...
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    The Art of Cookery Made Plain and Easy is a cookbook by Hannah Glasse (1708–1770), first published in 1747. It was a bestseller for a century after its...
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  • In software engineering, a plain old Java object (POJO) is an ordinary Java object, not bound by any special restriction. The term was coined by Martin...
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    The Great Plains are a broad expanse of flatland in North America. The region is located just to the east of the Rocky Mountains, much of it covered in...
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    Anthony Burgess (category CS1 Swedish-language sources (sv))
    Birmingham in the late 1940s, investigates the field of linguistics in Language Made Plain and A Mouthful of Air. The depth of Burgess's multilingual proficiency...
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    Japanese (日本語, Nihongo, [ɲihoŋɡo] ) is the principal language of the Japonic language family spoken by the Japanese people. It has around 123 million speakers...
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    Do You Become a Made Man?". Retrieved May 12, 2016. "The FBI's 'Made' Mafia Man, news article by Reporter Michael Heaton in the "Plain Dealer", August...
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    United States have made the Plains Indian culture groups an archetype in literature and art for Native Americans everywhere. The Plains tribes are usually...
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    Jamaica Plain is a neighborhood of 4.4 square miles (11 km2) in Boston, Massachusetts, United States. Settled by Puritans seeking farmland to the south...
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    English is a West Germanic language in the Indo-European language family, whose speakers, called Anglophones, originated in early medieval England on the...
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  • attacks also advises local agencies on how and why to transition to plain language, and their use is expressly forbidden in the nationally standardized...
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    The Plain White T's are an American pop rock band from Lombard, Illinois, formed in 1997 by high school friends Tom Higgenson, Dave Tirio, and Ken Fletcher...
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    eight other aboriginal languages. There, Cree is spoken mainly in Fort Smith and Hay River. Endonyms are: nêhiyawêwin ᓀᐦᐃᔭᐍᐏᐣ (Plains Cree) nīhithawīwin ᓃᐦᐃᖬᐑᐏᐣ...
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    Nguni language, indigenous to Southern Africa and one of the official languages of South Africa and Zimbabwe. Xhosa is spoken as a first language by approximately...
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    Plain people are Christian groups in the United States, characterized by separation from the world and by simple living, including plain dressing in modest...
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  • The Plain (French: La Plaine), also known as The Marsh (French: Le Marais), was the majority of independent deputies in the French National Convention...
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    generally been the older language's series of plain voiced stops, thus Sanskrit janayati > Saraiki ʄəɲən 'be born'. New plain voiced stops have in turn...
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    Markdown (category Lightweight markup languages)
    markup language for creating formatted text using a plain-text editor. John Gruber created Markdown in 2004 as an easy-to-read markup language. Markdown...
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    sign-language trade pidgin, known as Plains Indian Sign Language, Plains Standard or Plains Sign Talk, arose among the Native Americans of the plains. Each...
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    ʿÎbrit) is a Northwest Semitic language within the Afroasiatic language family. A regional dialect of the Canaanite languages, it was natively spoken by the...
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    Nineveh Plains is the only region in Iraq where a plurality of inhabitants follow Syriac Christianity. Before ISIL invaded Nineveh, Assyrians made up around...
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