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  2. The Sun Rising (poem) - Wikipedia

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    Stanza one begins with the speaker in bed with his lover, complaining about sun's beaming rays. Donne uses expressions such as, "Busy old fool" (line 1) and "Saucy Pedantic Wretch" [perfectionist] [4] (line 5) to describe his annoyance with it. The speaker of the poem questions the sun's motives and yearns for the sun to go away so that he and ...

  3. List of official languages - Wikipedia

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    2 List of languages by the number of countries in which they are the most widely used. ... Download as PDF; Printable version; In other projects Wikidata item;

  4. Profanity - Wikipedia

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    Profanity is often depicted in images by grawlixes, which substitute symbols for words.. Profanity, also known as swearing, cursing, or cussing, involves the use of notionally offensive words for a variety of purposes, including to demonstrate disrespect or negativity, to relieve pain, to express a strong emotion, as a grammatical intensifier or emphasis, or to express informality or ...

  5. Italian profanity - Wikipedia

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    The Italian language is a language with a large set of inflammatory terms and phrases, almost all of which originate from the several dialects and languages of Italy, such as the Tuscan dialect, which had a very strong influence in modern standard Italian, and is widely known to be based on Florentine language. [1]

  6. Stilted speech - Wikipedia

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    In psychiatry, stilted speech or pedantic speech [1] is communication characterized by situationally inappropriate formality. [2] This formality can be expressed both through abnormal prosody [ 3 ] as well as speech content that is "inappropriately pompous, legalistic, philosophical, or quaint". [ 4 ]

  7. Lists of dictionaries - Wikipedia

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    Deutsches Rechtswörterbuch (Dictionary of Historical German Legal Terms) Lists of dictionaries cover general and specialized dictionaries, collections of words in one or more specific languages, and collections of terms in specialist fields. They are organized by language, specialty and other properties.

  8. List of official languages by country and territory - Wikipedia

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    A language that uniquely represents the national identity of a state, nation, and/or country and is so designated by a country's government; some are technically minority languages. (On this page a national language is followed by parentheses that identify it as a national language status.) Some countries have more than one language with this ...

  9. Category:Profanity by language - Wikipedia

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