Language is a code, a collection of symbols, letters, or words with arbitrary meanings that are arranged according to the rules of syntax and are used to communicate.

The words themselves have meaning within their specific context or language community. But without a grasp of that context, “my bad” may have just sounded odd. Your familiarity with the words and phrases may have made the exercise easy for you, but it isn’t an easy exercise for everyone. The words themselves only carry meaning if you know the understood meaning and have a grasp of their context to interpret them correctly.

There are three types of rules that govern or control our use of words. You may not be aware that they exist or that they influence you, but from the moment you put a word into text or speak it, these rules govern your communications. Think of a word that is all right to use in certain situations and not in others. Why? And how do you know?

Syntactic rules govern the order of words in a sentence. In some languages, such as German, syntax or word order is strictly prescribed. English syntax, in contrast, is relatively flexible and open to style. Still, there are definite combinations of words that are correct and incorrect in English. It is equally correct to say, “Please come to the meeting in the auditorium at twelve noon on Wednesday” or, “Please come to the meeting on Wednesday at twelve noon in the auditorium.” But it would be incorrect to say, “Please to the auditorium on Wednesday in the meeting at twelve noon come.”

Semantic rules govern the meaning of words and how to interpret them. Semantics is the study of meaning in language. It considers what words mean, or are intended to mean, as opposed to their sound, spelling, grammatical function, and so on. Does a given statement refer to other statements already communicated? Is the statement true or false? Does it carry a certain intent? What does the sender or receiver need to know in order to understand its meaning? These are questions addressed by semantic rules.

Contextual rules govern meaning and word choice according to context and social custom. For example, suppose Greg is talking about his coworker, Carol, and says, “She always meets her deadlines.” This may seem like a straightforward statement that would not vary according to context or social custom. But suppose another coworker asked Greg, “How do you like working with Carol?” and, after a long pause, Greg answered, “She always meets her deadlines.” Are there factors in the context of the question or social customs that would influence the meaning of Greg’s statement?

Even when we follow these linguistic rules, miscommunication is possible, for our cultural context or community may hold different meanings for the words used than the source intended. Words attempt to represent the ideas we want to communicate, but they are sometimes limited by factors beyond our control. They often require us to negotiate their meaning, or to explain what we mean in more than one way, in order to create a common vocabulary. You may need to state a word, define it, and provide an example in order to come to an understanding with your audience about the meaning of your message.

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He who walks with the wise will grow wise, but a companion of fools suffers harms.

He who is hanging out with wise men will be wise, but make friends with stupid people will suffer losses.

Associating with the wise will help us to learn a lot from them.

Selecting those who have the skills, abilities, and insights as friends will help us to improve the quality of our life significantly.

It is important that our friends and our allies are the people who can be trusted.

Conversely, choosing a bad friend is dangerous. There are many examples that confirm this view. You can see it in real life. Therefore, choose carefully who your friends are.

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My Kinda Town by Stucks in Custom

A scoffer seeks wisdom, and doesn’t find it. But knowledge comes easily to a discerning person.
Proverbs.

Invest For Your Future Today

We don’t know what will happen in the future. But there is one thing for sure, we can shape our future by doing our very best right now. It’s about designing the future by doing our ultimate best at the present time.

Our time is our life. It’s by making the most of our time that success is assured. Do you manage your time well. Do you use your time to achieve your highest value goals? What are you highest value goals? What can you to achieve your highest value goals?

Begin today to shape your future by setting and and achieving highest value goals. Today is your best today. Today is the best time to begin. Today is you ultimate opportunities to turn your dreams into reality.

Be tough. Shape your future. Be highly committed to achieve you goals. Be courageous to shape your future. Do no to be afraid. Face you fear. Set your highest value goals today and do something immadiately to achieve your goals.

Turn your problems into opportunities of advancement. Solve your problems and learn from it. Avoid complacency. Meet your problems head on. Turn every problems into opportunities to create progress.

Be Tough : Do Something Great TODAY!

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To succeed in business you don’t need any complicated theory. All you need to do is to set high value business goals and then take real action to achieve them. Business success is all about taking quality actions bring your business toward the next level.

Here are three simple principles to succeed in your business:

1. High Qality Products and Services.

High quality producs and services create high demands. More profits can be earned because you can sell your products or services in premium prices.

2. Give Quality Services to Your Customers.

Giving quality services to your customers create repeat sales. It is easier to sale to your existing customer that trying to sale to the new prospects. Through repeat sales you can cut cost and boost up more profits.

3. Be Innovative.

Doing somenthing in totally different ways can give you new boost toward the next level of success. Creativity begins by doing something in a radically different ways. Apply creativity in your entrepreneurship endeavor and find out your greatest business potential.

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Caity and the Tuesday Mushroom King by Gale Franey

Positive mental attitude is the empowering way in seeing life. You are in charge about how you see life. You have the power to see life in meaningful ways. It’s the power to see life meaning no matter how the condition of your life. Through positive mental attitude, you can make better decision when facing life challenges.

You have goals to be achieved, dreams to be realized, and the energy keep you moving ahead doing the right things toward the realisation of you goals and dreams. Positive mental attitudes translate challenges into opportunities.

You see yesterday as great lessons for today, today as the great day to achieve your highest value goals, and tomorrow as the energy to do your very best today.

You can relate well with others in meaningful ways. You see the best inside of fellow humans despite the external realities. You gain more friends and deal well with the enemy so that peace can be maintained.

You continuously do something positive and empowering to improve the quality of your life in significant way. You make the most of every high value opportunities to improve the quality of your life in meaningful ways. You can create a big difference in your life.

You to face life challenges bravely. You focused your mind, time and energy to get the highest value jod done effectively, efficiently, and productively. You do the best with all of the available resources.

Positive mental attitute set you to be always the winner no matter what the situation of your life. The better your attitude, the better your life will be. Set yourself to be always see the positive side of your life, and do something based on that perspective.

Positive mental attitide also helps you to stay young. No matter what happen in your life, feel-think-act positive. Position yourself as problems solver. Focus to solve the problems effectively and creatively. Double your productivity. Set yourself to get the high value job done successfully.

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Hope by Gale Franey

How to Make and Keep Your New Year Resolutions 2010.

The new beginning is about to come as we are entering year 2010. It’s time to start new. Life is so precious to be lived without definite planning. It’s by creating definite plan of action, not just any plan, that we can make our dreams come true. Here are 10 crucial points that you must pay attention to ensure progress during the year 2010.

1. Your Health: Be a healthier person by being more careful about what you eat.
2. Living Environment : Consider to live in a better place that give you inspiration to achieve your best.
3. Education : Embrace lifelong learning principle – begin to read quality books – and apply the best principles.
4. Love : Develop and maintain a loving relationship with your special someone.
5. Money : Earn more money by sharpening your core competence. Be more rewarding by working on your strength. Turn your hobbies into business that give you additional income.
6. Family : Be a more loving person to your family, and do your best to have a happy family.
7. God : Enjoy a better relationship with the Creator of the Universe.
8. Time : Focus to get your highest value jobs done : successfully!
9. Happiness : Be thankful for even the smallest blessing that God has given to you.
10. Peace : Enjoy your life even more by living in peace with fellow human.

3 Simple Steps

Here are 3 simple steps to ensure your success in making and keeping your new year resolutios:

1. Set Action Plans to Achieve Highest Value Goals.
2. Focus Your Time, Energy and Mind to Achieve that Goals.
3. Apply Constant and Never Ending Improvement Principles in All Crucial Areas of Life by Setting and Achieving High Value Goals.

These are 3 simple principles that will help you to make and keep your New Year Resolution.

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Start Today!

Even the right decision is wrong when it’s taken too late.

Today is your best day.
Today is the best time to begin.
Today is your precious time.
Today is the time to ensure success.
Today is your change to achieve great success.

Just begin today.
Just begin today to be successful in life.
Just begin today to make progress in life.
Just begin today to live a meaningful life.

It takes efforts to succeed in life.
It takes focus on highest value activities to ensure progress.
It takes determination to speed up your progress.

There is nothing impossible.
There is nothing impossible for the optimist person.
There is nothing impossible for those who willing to take action.

All things are possible.
All things are possible for those who believe and trust God.
All things are possible if you are willing to takes efforts.
All things are possible if you are fully determined to succeed in life.

Right now is the best time.
Right now is the time to begin.
Right now is your chance for success.
Right now is the great time to begin.

Begin right now.
Begin when you still have chance.
Begin when you still have time.
Begin when you still alive as a human being on earth.
Begin when you still have the opportunities to make progress.
Begin when you still have the will to succeed.
Begin when you still have the possibilities to succeed.
Begin when you still have the time to enjoy your life.

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