Het jy geweet dat die titel Macbeth van Shakespeare nie in ‘n teater in die Verenigde Koninkryk genoem word nie? Dit sal ongeluk oor die opvoering bring. Daarom staan die klassieke werk daar as die Skotse Drama bekend. Weet jy dat geboue in Oos-Asie glad nie ‘n vierde verdieping het nie, en dat geboue in Hong Kong geen verdieping met ‘n syfer vier daarin het nie. Verdieping 4, 14, 24, 34 en 40 tot 49 ontbreek in die wolkekrabbers. Baie m ...
The second edition of Spreekwoorde en waar hulle vandaan kom is completely revised with roughly 3000 new entries. Two thirds of these represent origins from mainly old Dutch sources. While many expressions and proverbs are obsolete, they are still found in texts. Meanings of these expressions and proverbs would be unavailable to readers who do not have access to older dictionaries. However, Spreekwoorde en waar hulle vandaan kom fills this gap. ...
Your Voice Is Your Power—Now Make It HeardMore than ever before, the business, entertainment, and political landscapes are ripe for women to accomplish their goals. Women are entering law, medical, and graduate schools in equal numbers to men. But it’s still a challenge to make it to the top.Developing excellent communication and public speaking skills gives women the ability to rise to their full potential, seize every opport ...
Public speaking can be terrifying. For David Nihill, the idea of standing in front of an audience was scarier than cliff jumping into a thorny pit of spiders and mothers-in-law. Without a parachute or advanced weaponry. Something had to change.In what doesn’t sound like the best plan ever, David decided to overcome his fears by pretending to be an accomplished comedian called «Irish Dave» for one full year, crashing as many comedy club ...
The scientific consensus is that our ability to understand human speech has evolved over hundreds of thousands of years. After all, there are whole portions of the brain devoted to human speech. We learn to understand speech too quickly and with almost no training and can seamlessly absorb enormous amounts of information simply by hearing it. Surely we evolved this capability over thousands of generations.Or did we? Portions of the human brain a ...
The plot thickens–in novels and our lives–forcing us from the fairy tale into a bewildering, even heartbreaking narrative. We look at the god we're holding, and find it too fragile, too brittle to meet reality. Cling tighter? Move on godless? In fact, rejecting a god image (or as C. S. Lewis puts it, allowing God to smash our limited god) opens space for deeper faith in the midst of painful life experience. In OMG, Mary Ellen Ashcroft invit ...
The Trinity is a speaking God: three divine persons who share the same essence and commune with each other in love and glory. How does this truth shape the way we view the world and our place in it? The Speaking Trinity and His Worded World explores these questions by presenting all of life through the lens of language. Understood as communion behavior, language has its roots in God himself. What's more, God has used language not only to cr ...
