Artistic language — An artistic language (artlang) is a constructed language designed for aesthetic pleasure. Unlike engineered languages or auxiliary languages, artistic languages usually have irregular grammar systems, much like natural languages. Many are… … Wikipedia
Comic timing — is the use of rhythm, tempo and pausing to enhance comedy and humour. The pacing of the delivery of a joke can have a strong impact on its comedic effect, even altering its meaning; the same can also be true of more physical comedy such as… … Wikipedia
Victor Borge — Infobox actor name = Victor Borge imagesize = 180px caption = Borge in native Denmark birthdate = birth date|1909|1|3 birthplace = Copenhagen, Denmark deathdate = dda|2000|12|23|1909|1|3 deathplace = Greenwich, Connecticut occupation = pianist,… … Wikipedia
Lengua artística — Una lengua artística o lengua alternativa es un idioma artificial o ideolengua que ha sido inventado como un acto creativo del autor, generalmente para disfrutar del placer estético del resultado. En el sentido más amplio del término, una lengua… … Wikipedia Español
wonderful adj — Tale written by Victor Borge in inflationary language. To understand the tale deduce one each time you read a number. JACK AND THE TWODERFUL BEANS Twice upon a time there lived a boy named Jack in the twoderful land of Califivenia. Two day Jack,… … English expressions
HISTORICAL SURVEY: THE STATE AND ITS ANTECEDENTS (1880–2006) — Introduction It took the new Jewish nation about 70 years to emerge as the State of Israel. The immediate stimulus that initiated the modern return to Zion was the disappointment, in the last quarter of the 19th century, of the expectation that… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
ECONOMIC AFFAIRS — THE PRE MANDATE (LATE OTTOMAN) PERIOD Geography and Borders In September 1923 a new political entity was formally recognized by the international community. Palestine, or Ereẓ Israel as Jews have continued to refer to it for 2,000 years,… … Encyclopedia of Judaism
United States — a republic in the N Western Hemisphere comprising 48 conterminous states, the District of Columbia, and Alaska in North America, and Hawaii in the N Pacific. 267,954,767; conterminous United States, 3,022,387 sq. mi. (7,827,982 sq. km); with… … Universalium
United Kingdom — a kingdom in NW Europe, consisting of Great Britain and Northern Ireland: formerly comprising Great Britain and Ireland 1801 1922. 58,610,182; 94,242 sq. mi. (244,100 sq. km). Cap.: London. Abbr.: U.K. Official name, United Kingdom of Great… … Universalium
brazil — /breuh zil /, n. brazilwood. [1350 1400; ME brasile < ML < It < Sp brasil, deriv. of brasa live coal (the wood being red in color) < Gmc; see BRAISE] * * * Brazil Introduction Brazil Background: Following three centuries under the rule of… … Universalium
