Language shapes your ideas, and how you view the world. People develop languages to express what they need to, and it reflects their identity and worldview to a far larger degree than you think.
Here’s an example: in English, a default pronoun for anything alive is ‘he’. This ends up giving you this idea that you have to justify something getting a ‘she’ label. Female characters are criticized for existing and looked over with a ‘but why is this character here/what role do they serve/are they too perfect’ mindset while males just seem standard.
Countries with gender neutral terms of address do not face this problem anywhere near as much, I note. I have noticed gender distribution in media appears more varied when the language does not shove one ‘default’ gender in your mind.
The thing is - we couldn’t really notice this if we didn’t encounter a language that did not do this. Why would we? It’s just how it works! (note: try to use ‘they’ as your default pronoun. It is, in fact, grammatically correct.)
Here is another: color perception. We can all see the same range of colors, but we do not distinguish them the same way. In Greek writing, you’ll read about ‘the white sky’ or ‘wine-dark sea’, reflecting a lack of the word for blue. In Japanese, ‘midori’, or green, existed as a term to reflect something being fresh or new first. Fields and trees were referred to as blue. It was adapted to describe a color long after it was already a word. And this happened because of cultural exchange and mixing.
Having a word for something means you perceive it. Not having a word for something limits your ability to consider it.
This means: with just one language, the flow of different ideas and a means of enriching or growing together comes to a screeching halt. I think we’d face a far darker world than we live in, where cultures are very similar and we would never be able to analyze ourselves from an outside perspective.
- The world is experiencing a dramatic increase in population, This is causing problems not only for poor, undeveloped countries, but also for industrialised and developing nations.Describe some of the problems that overpopulation causes, and suggest at lea 84
- Some people believe that the use of mobile phones in public is as annoying as smoking and should be banned, similarly to smoking. Give your opinion and examples from your own experience 73
- Some people believe that the government should ban dangerous sporting activities, while others think that people should have the freedom to do whatever sports they choose. Discuss both views and give your opinion. 61
- These days children spend more time on doing homework or participating in school-related activities or sports. However, they should be given more time to do whatever they want. 70
- Many parents today organise extra classes for their children after school and at the weekends.Do you feel that this is a worthwhile thing to do or do you feel children have enough education at school?Give reasons for your answer and include any relevant e 56
Grammar and spelling errors:
Line 3, column 170, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...t you have to justify something getting a 'she' label. Female character...
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Line 3, column 262, Rule ID: EN_A_VS_AN
Message: Use 'an' instead of 'a' if the following word starts with a vowel sound, e.g. 'an article', 'an hour'
Suggestion: an
...cized for existing and looked over with a 'but why is this character here/wh...
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Line 6, column 155, Rule ID: UPPERCASE_SENTENCE_START
Message: This sentence does not start with an uppercase letter
Suggestion: Note
... would we? It's just how it works! note: try to use 'they' as your de...
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Transition Words or Phrases used:
but, first, if, look, really, so, while, i think, in fact
Attributes: Values AverageValues Percentages(Values/AverageValues)% => Comments
Performance on Part of Speech:
To be verbs : 13.0 13.1623246493 99% => OK
Auxiliary verbs: 4.0 7.85571142285 51% => OK
Conjunction : 15.0 10.4138276553 144% => OK
Relative clauses : 4.0 7.30460921844 55% => More relative clauses wanted.
Pronoun: 43.0 24.0651302605 179% => Less pronouns wanted
Preposition: 35.0 41.998997996 83% => OK
Nominalization: 2.0 8.3376753507 24% => More nominalizations (nouns with a suffix like: tion ment ence ance) wanted.
Performance on vocabulary words:
No of characters: 1724.0 1615.20841683 107% => OK
No of words: 342.0 315.596192385 108% => OK
Chars per words: 5.04093567251 5.12529762239 98% => OK
Fourth root words length: 4.30037696126 4.20363070211 102% => OK
Word Length SD: 3.0335861874 2.80592935109 108% => OK
Unique words: 219.0 176.041082164 124% => OK
Unique words percentage: 0.640350877193 0.561755894193 114% => OK
syllable_count: 520.2 506.74238477 103% => OK
avg_syllables_per_word: 1.5 1.60771543086 93% => OK
A sentence (or a clause, phrase) starts by:
Pronoun: 8.0 5.43587174349 147% => OK
Article: 4.0 2.52805611222 158% => OK
Subordination: 1.0 2.10420841683 48% => OK
Conjunction: 7.0 0.809619238477 865% => Less conjunction wanted as sentence beginning.
Preposition: 3.0 4.76152304609 63% => OK
Performance on sentences:
How many sentences: 22.0 16.0721442886 137% => OK
Sentence length: 15.0 20.2975951904 74% => The Avg. Sentence Length is relatively short.
Sentence length SD: 45.8173024807 49.4020404114 93% => OK
Chars per sentence: 78.3636363636 106.682146367 73% => OK
Words per sentence: 15.5454545455 20.7667163134 75% => OK
Discourse Markers: 2.59090909091 7.06120827912 37% => More transition words/phrases wanted.
Paragraphs: 7.0 4.38176352705 160% => Less paragraphs wanted.
Language errors: 3.0 5.01903807615 60% => OK
Sentences with positive sentiment : 5.0 8.67935871743 58% => More positive sentences wanted.
Sentences with negative sentiment : 3.0 3.9879759519 75% => OK
Sentences with neutral sentiment: 14.0 3.4128256513 410% => Less facts, knowledge or examples wanted.
What are sentences with positive/Negative/neutral sentiment?
Coherence and Cohesion:
Essay topic to essay body coherence: 0.0922044498285 0.244688304435 38% => The similarity between the topic and the content is low.
Sentence topic coherence: 0.0293403220119 0.084324248473 35% => Sentence topic similarity is low.
Sentence topic coherence SD: 0.0348335525149 0.0667982634062 52% => OK
Paragraph topic coherence: 0.0561680706206 0.151304729494 37% => Maybe some paragraphs are off the topic.
Paragraph topic coherence SD: 0.04472086586 0.056905535591 79% => OK
Essay readability:
automated_readability_index: 10.1 13.0946893788 77% => Automated_readability_index is low.
flesch_reading_ease: 64.71 50.2224549098 129% => OK
smog_index: 3.1 7.44779559118 42% => Smog_index is low.
flesch_kincaid_grade: 8.0 11.3001002004 71% => OK
coleman_liau_index: 11.66 12.4159519038 94% => OK
dale_chall_readability_score: 8.49 8.58950901804 99% => OK
difficult_words: 89.0 78.4519038076 113% => OK
linsear_write_formula: 8.0 9.78957915832 82% => OK
gunning_fog: 8.0 10.1190380762 79% => OK
text_standard: 8.0 10.7795591182 74% => OK
What are above readability scores?
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Maximum five paragraphs wanted.
Rates: 84.2696629213 out of 100
Scores by essay e-grader: 7.5 Out of 9
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