For a long time, most of the media that I consume every day has been from an electronic device. The only area where this has not been entirely true is with books, which are not always easily available in an electronic format, and are more difficult to markup on a computer. This is changing now… Read more »
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Mormon Culture and Jargon: Mormon Missionaries (Part 2)
(This is part 2 of a 2 part series. Read part 1 here.) The mission administrative organization has its own complex and highly developed jargon. First of all, each mission, which consists of anywhere from 20 to 200 (or sometimes more) missionaries, is located geographically within an ‘area’, consisting of many missions, which are overseen… Read more »
Mormon Culture and Jargon: Mormon Missionaries (Part 1)
(This is part 1 of a 2 part series. Read part 2 here.) Variation in language occurs constantly and continuously throughout our society, and for each of us, whether we realize it or not, it is a daily experience. Social groups have dialects, jargon, and slang that oftentimes transcend geographical boundaries and provide cohesion among… Read more »