Know And Understand Impact / Effects Of Using Mobile Phones On Our Health ( Speech And Communication)

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Know And Understand The 

Impact / Effects

Of  Using 

Mobile Phones On Our 

Health 

( Speech And Communication)

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Over the past few years, cell phones have become a must have in our lives as they give us access to voice and data services in almost every part of the world. Overdependency on these small devices has exposed us to hazardous effects as these are kept on our bodies, in our pockets, or held in our hands.

In a recent publication, it was seen that 56% of children between the ages of 10–13 have a smartphone. Also, it is seen that 25% of children between the ages of 2 and 5 have a smartphone. School-grade students today beg for smartphones more than even new dresses or shoes.

Effect of using mobile phones on speech and communication

In today’s era, children using handheld devices are more likely to have delays in expressive speech. These children start talking much later than their peers. Since the cell phone does not respond back to their communication, children cannot develop a communication channel with it. Soon, they get accustomed to using signs and symbols for things rather than asking for the same. They just get used to the mechanical model of handling cell phones by following few simple steps. In human beings, speech is mastered gradually and progressively. If the child skips on the fundamentals of speech, which include constant repetition of letters, consonants, syllables, and words, his speech tends to get delayed.

As per famous research conducted in Toronto, it was found that with every 30 minutes of screen time, the risk of delayed speech increased by 49%. Usually, infants should be able to communicate in sentences between three and four words by the age of 2-3 years. However, those who spent most of their time on handheld devices were found to struggle with communication skills. As per another popular study conducted in the UK, electronic gadgets may be blamed for 70% rise in speech problems in past 6 years. Another famous study conducted in University College London found that screen time also had an impact on sleep of infants, which affected their brains.

As per the opinion of education leaders and speech specialists, many children are deprived of conversation with their family since they spend a lot of time on electronic devices. The noise and activity on a screen can distract a small child and cause a disconnect between them and their parents. Screen time is slowly replacing parent-child interactions which are critical for healthy development.

How to address this issue?

The best way to teach language to children is by interacting and talking to them, using different vocabulary, playing with them, being creative, and pointing things out to them. However, if you feel that owing to negligence your child already has issues with his speech and communication, then visiting a professional speech therapist and counselor can make a huge difference.

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Stupid Idioms - Know And Understand What's Wrong with Them

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      Stupid Idioms

         

          Know And Understand

          

            What's  Wrong With Them      

' No Use Crying Over Spilt Milk

The Flaw 

Crying helps people recover from disappointment. 

True, it's dangerous to dwell on the past, but holding back those spilt milk tears could hurt even more. 

A survey of more than 5,000 weepers in the Journal of Social and Clinical Psychology suggests that a good cry can provide resolution after pain respondents who tried to suppress their sobs only felt worse. Or, to put it in more lactose-tolerant terms, " Some times we should cry over spilt milk," writes Aaron Ben-Ze'ev, a philosophy professor at the University of Haifa in Israel,"Otherwise, How will we learn to value milk, and how will we avoid spilling it again?"

Pure As The Driven Snow

THE FLAW

Driven snow has been blown into drifts and remained untrodden-upon by human heels. 

Sounds pure, but according to Canadian researchers, fresh white snow is a magnet for car exhaust pollution, absorbing enough toxins while 'driven' to become a health hazard if you were to drink enough of it. (Keep this in mind, 'yellow snow' jokesters.)

'You Catch More Flies with Honey than with Vinegar'

THE FLAW

Vinegar is a fly magnet. If you've ever endured a fruit fly invasion in your home, a bowl of vinegar was likely your first line of defence. 

Pet researchers from Northwestern University, USA,"Adult Flies forage for microbes on overripe fruit, relying on their sense of smell to detect the acetic acid ( the chemical that gives vinegar it's pungent aroma) that accumulates as the fruit ferments." 

The hungrier a fly gets, the quicker it succumbs to vineyards dubious charms.

'Low Man on the Totem Pole

THE FLAW

The opposite of chump, the low man is often the most admired. Vertical order on totem poles rarely denotes importance. 

One thing the 'low man' almost always earns, though, is love from the career and hence the viewer."Most carvers begins from the bottom of the pole,moving gradually to the top,"writes Pat Kramer, author of Totem Poles , "Bottom figures are carefully detailed because observers see these figures close - up."

'Money Can't Buy Happiness

THE FLAW

Yes, it can. P armament happiness is fleeting no matter what your bank account looks like, but research shows money does, in fact, give you short-term bursts of joy - if you spend wisely. Experiences such as concerts or vacations have been shown to bring greater happiness than purchasing stuff. 
Most important, people who spend money on others are measurably happier than those who spend on themselves. So do yourself a favour: Buy Happiness for someone else.

'Pick the low-Hanging Fruit First'

THE FLAW

Lower fruit is often the last to ripen. "Fruit that is high up, exposed to the sun, ripens the fastest," says Gennaro Fazio, a plant breeder and geneticist for the US Department of Agriculture's Plant Genetic Resources Unit,"You want to pick the low-hanging fruit the last, so it has more time to develop." What's more, starting at the top makes the whole job easier, says apple-picking, veteran Henry Rueda: When pickers harvest from top to bottom,the sacks, of fruit they carry around their necks and shoulders grow heavier as they move downward, working with gravity not against it.

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Know And Understand The Secret Messages Behind These Famous Logo Designs

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    Know And Understand The 

  

        Secret  Behind These 

     

             Famous Logo Designs

                          

              

These famous logos hide a quirky message.

FEDEX

WHAT WE THOUGHT

Honestly, we thought it just read FedEx.

WRONG! Look again in the space between the E and the x. Yeah, it's an arrow pointing forward,perhaps to suggest speedy delivery.

WIKIPEDIA

WHAT WE THOUGHT

The Wikipedia people were so busy collecting information, they forgot to finish their logo.

WRONG! The unfinished globe, made of puzzle pieces with characters from various languages,represents the "incomplete nature" of the company's mission to be the go to information portal and the fact that a site built on user submissions can never be complete.

Amazon

WHAT WE THOUGHT

The grin under the letters amaz depicts CEO Jeff Bezos smiling at all the merchandise his company is moving.

WRONG ! The arrow broadcasts the wide variety of stuff from A to Z to be had an Amazon.

APPLE

WHAT WE THOUGHT

They ripped off the bible, the bitten apple symbolizing the fruit from the tree of knowledge

WRONG! The designer made the bite mark for scale, so that a smaller logo would still look like an apple and not a cherry.

BASKIN-ROBBINS

WHAT WE THOUGHT

Who cares it's ice cream!

WRONG! While stuffing our faces, we missed the 31 in the Initials, as in the number of flavours  the company began offering in 1953 one for everyday of the month.

SUN MICROSYSTSEMS

WHAT WE THOUGHT

A Lot U's as in, "U should buy Sun Products."

WRONG! Turn the logo around and the sun is always there.

TOBLERONE

WHAT WE THOUGHT

Hmmmm..... a mountain of chocolate......

WRONG! Hey, what's that beat Do I g on the side of that mountain of chocolate? It's the official symbol of the Swiss town of Been, the original home of TOBLERONE.

DELL

WHAT WE THOUGHT

The E was on its side because someone thought it looked nice.

WRONG! Michael Dell announced that the goal of his company was to "turn the world on its ear." So it's been said he started with an

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Abbreviations

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    What Do These Abbreviations 

    Mean And What is there Origin 

                                    

               

We use these abbreviations all the time without realizing what they mean (and that some of them actually don't even make sense).

No.

When it comes to confusing abbreviations, our No. 1 question is: Why is “No.” the abbreviation for “number,” since there’s no “O” in the word? Well, there may not be an “O” in “number,” but there is one in the Latin word numero, which is where the English word comes from. The “No.” abbreviation actually comes from a symbol meaning “number” (also derived from numero) that depicted a capital N with a miniature O, often as a superscript (Nº). Over time, the signal morphed into a regular N and O.

Lb

How did the letters “L” and “B” get to be the abbreviation for “pound,” a word that contains neither of those letters? It has to do with the origins of the word. The English word “pound” originates from Latin, specifically from an ancient Roman unit of measurement called a Libra pondo, meaning “a pound by weight.” “Pondo” became the English word “pound,” while the “Libra” provided the origin for the “lb” abbreviation. This is also the reason that the abbreviation for the British currency, pound, resembles an L.

Oz

The abbreviation “oz” for “ounces” may make a bit more sense than “Lb” for “pound,” but it’s still a little perplexing. Where does the “Z” come from? Well, the word “ounces,” just like its big cousin “pounds,” originates from a Latin word. The Roman empire called an ounce uncia. As uncia evolved through the other Romance languages, it became unce in Anglo-French, leading to the English ounce. In Medieval Italian, the word was onza, which is where the “Z” in the abbreviation comes from.

A.M. and P.M.

Here’s another prime example of American abbreviations that are Latin in origin. Most people use “A.M.” and “P.M.” every day to refer to different times, without any idea what they stand for—and understandably so. A.M. stands for ante meridiem, or “before noon,” while P.M. stands for post meridiem, meaning (you guessed it) “after noon.” “Post,” meaning “after,” is a very familiar Latin loanword that we use all the time; we just may not realize that it’s the “P” in P.M., too.

PIN

When an ATM asks for your PIN, you know that this means the machine needs a four (or more)-digit number to identify your account. But do you know what “PIN” actually means? The three letters stand for “personal identification number.” We have a Scottish engineer named James Goodfellow to thank for this technological innovation; Goodfellow received a patent for an automatic cash machine, with a PIN pad, in 1966. So now you know that if you talk about your “PIN number,” you’re saying “personal identification number number.” The “PIN” abbreviation already has the word “number” embedded in it. (Bonus abbreviation: ATM stands for “automated teller machine.”) Here are some more phrases you’re using that are actually redundant.

CC

We see this handy little pair of letters whenever we send an email and know that it’s a super-simple way to send a message to someone who isn’t the primary recipient. But how many of us know exactly what it means? Well, it’s short for “carbon copy” and references the technique of printing an identical copy of a typewritten document onto carbon paper, dating back to the late 19th century. According to Merriam-Webster, the use of “CC” as a verb, meaning to add a recipient to an email, began in 1983. “BCC” stands for “blind carbon copy”; if you BCC a message, it means that you can send it to someone else without the primary recipient seeing.

USB

USB ports help us charge our phones, share computer screens, and access our files on any computer thanks to flash drives. We might take the USB technology for granted, including the fact that the abbreviation stands for “Universal Serial Bus.” If you’re wondering what buses could possibly have to do with computer gadgets, it’s not that kind of bus. In computer-speak, a bus is a set of conductors that creates a transmission path. The company Intel produced the first integrated circuits that could support USB technology in 1995.

Et al.

This abbreviation, most often used to list a group of people without naming every single name, comes from the Latin phrase et alia. The phrase means “and others,” which explains why it’s used in scholarly articles to represent the other authors of a work besides the primary one. The Latin word alia is actually where our word for a false name, “alias,” comes from. This abbreviation is a little tricky punctuation-wise, because the “et” in et al. is not actually an abbreviation. Only the “al” needs a period after it. Here are some more punctuation mistakes even smart people make.

CV

During your most recent job search, you may have come across this term, which basically means a slightly fancier, more in-depth resume. Sure enough, the letters “CV” come from Latin; they’re short for curriculum vitae. This phrase translates to “course of life.” Now that’s one way to think of a resume—it certainly makes it sound less commonplace! The use of this phrase with reference to job applicants first appeared in the early 1900s, according to Merriam-Webster.

MO

If you’ve ever described someone’s mannerisms or habits by saying, “That’s just his MO!” without knowing what the M and the O stand for, you’re not alone. It comes from the Latin modus operandi, meaning “method of operating,” and was originally used to describe the behavior of criminals (and sometimes still is). 

SIM

If you have a cell phone, it most likely uses a SIM card that allows you to connect to the network. But these cards also carry unique information about each cell user, which is why SIM stands for “Subscriber Identity Module.” Since the SIM card holds specific information about the user, it provides a way for the network to distinguish individual subscribers. The first SIM card appeared with the debut of GSM (Global System for Mobile communications) technology in 1991.

Mrs.

This is another confusing abbreviation with a stray letter that doesn’t seem to belong there. Where does that “R” come from? And…what exactly is “Mrs.” short for anyway? While today we pronounce it as “missus,” it originally stood for mistress. This word, dating all the way back to Middle English, was the female counterpart to “master” and simply referred to the primary woman in a household, or a female caretaker. As the connotations of the word “mistress” evolved into the late 18th century to be…less positive, “missus” became the primary word for the woman of a household instead, though the abbreviation with the R remained.

Stat

When you spill something and yell, “I need some paper towels, stat!”, you’re speaking Latin, and you may not even realize it! “Stat” is short for statim, the Latin word for “immediately.” 

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