Large clips

Advantages: Great for doing hair
Disadvantages: None

...these clips in Boots. The clips are quite long and slightly curved so they curve to the shape of your head when you slide them in. They have a spring at the end of them so to open the clip you just press on either side to open the spring and then you can slide them into your hair. They are surprisingly strong and hold together really well so when I have them in my hair they hold quite a large section...

Spottydog11 24.01.2013 08:20 · Read review
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Review of Boots Essentials Sectioning Clips Large

Introductory Linguistics

Advantages: covers many basic linguistic theories, includes activities and exercises to aid learning and development, very descriptive
Disadvantages: small font, can be hard to follow at times due to the bland-ish/ to-the-point factual information

...take over the conversation, interruptions and what they mean, etc. This is one of the better chapters especially for non linguists as it is more easily applied and viewed in light of our own language experiences. Chapter 7 is a more detailed summary of the whole book in the sense that it looks at both spoken and written language and defines the approaches used to study them both based...

js2ht2andl 05.05.2006 09:33 · Read review
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Review of Describing Language, Graddol, Cheshire and Swann - David Graddol, Jenny Cheshire, Joan Swann

Trask speaks my language!

Advantages: Interesting, engaging and informative
Disadvantages: Possibly slightly outdated now (but definitely still relevant)

...Language by R L Trask is more or less an absolute beginner?s guide to the study of linguistics. My university course included a couple of modules on language and power, and this book was a brilliant accompaniment to my studies. It was also a bit different to some of the other textbooks that I had to use in that it is so readable and genuinely interesting. The version that I have is the second...

ithoughtyoudneverask 10.12.2011 17:56 · Read review
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Review of Language - R.L. Trask