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  2. Linguistic description - Wikipedia

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    Linguistic description is often contrasted with linguistic prescription, [8] which is found especially in education and in publishing. [9] [10]As English-linguist Larry Andrews describes it, descriptive grammar is the linguistic approach which studies what a language is like, as opposed to prescriptive, which declares what a language should be like.

  3. Essay - Wikipedia

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    Descriptive writing is characterized by sensory details, which appeal to the physical senses, and details that appeal to a reader's emotional, physical, or intellectual sensibilities. Determining the purpose, considering the audience, creating a dominant impression, using descriptive language, and organizing the description are the rhetorical ...

  4. Subud - Wikipedia

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    Subud (pronounced ) is an international, interfaith spiritual movement that began in Indonesia in the 1920s, founded by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo (1901–1987). [note 1] The basis of Subud is a spiritual exercise called the latihan kejiwaan, which Muhammad Subuh said represents guidance from "the Power of God" or "the Great Life Force."

  5. Performative utterance - Wikipedia

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    Every text is an act of communication that positions itself in relation to the status quo it seeks to change. [8]: 115 Skinner agrees with Derrida that contexts in their entirety are irretrievable but nevertheless states that there is a relevant context outside the text that can be described in a plausible way.

  6. Descriptive poetry - Wikipedia

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    "[Descriptive poetry] is poetry in which it is not imaginative passion that prevails, but a didactic purpose or even something of the instinct of a sublimated auctioneer. In other words, the landscape, architecture , still life or whatever may be the object of the poet's attention, is not used as an accessory, but is itself the centre of interest.

  7. Catch (game) - Wikipedia

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    Catch, playing catch, playing pass, or having a catch, is one of the most basic children's games, often played between children or between a parent and child, wherein the participants throw a ball, beanbag, flying disc or similar object back and forth to each other.

  8. Susila Budhi Dharma - Wikipedia

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    Susila Budhi Dharma is a book written by Muhammad Subuh Sumohadiwidjojo, the founder of the World Subud Association, in the city of Jogjakarta, Indonesia, in 1952. Its name corresponds to the three main qualities that are to be developed through the training in the Subud path.

  9. Raffi Ahmad - Wikipedia

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    Raffi Farid Ahmad (born 17 February 1987) is an Indonesian actor, presenter, singer, entrepreneur, media personality, and film producer. He is of the Sundanese and Pakistani descent as well as the eldest son of Munawar Ahmad and Amy Qanita.